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Source: MSNBC guest unchecked after floating theory that Trump-supporting cops may have framed Jussie Smollett | Fox News

One of the most lucrative TV shows ever produced is the classic sit-com, Seinfeld. Even though it last aired an original show more than 20 years ago, it continues to broadcast via re-runs in a seemingly continuous loop on the cable channels. It’s not so much that the show remains entertaining, it still is, but the main reason for the longevity is quite simply because it makes money. Advertisers still pay to hawk their wares during the show’s broadcasts even though everyone has seen each episode dozens of times. But fair to say, after listening to the same shtick over and over again, it’s not about art, it’s about money.

This model is not lost on the people operating in the racial division/social justice business. To this day, in 21st century America, even though the stigma of slavery is a distant period of history, the on going bleats of racism and oppression consumes social discussion as if it was the most pervasive issue facing Americans. As Tucker Carlson points out, no one alive today has grandparents who experienced slavery first hand…unless they’ve been alive since 1863.

Yet over 150 years later, the racial division industry has never been stronger. Some of the early adopters of this racket, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton etc have now been supplanted by a newer generation of ‘activists’ who frame any and every possible issue, no matter how mundane as having some kind of racially oppressive motive. The Jussie Smollet saga is of course the most recent in a never ending line of indignities suffered by the black community.

Some are too young to recall that in 1991, the Heileman Brewing company introduced a new beer product named PowerMaster, a potent malt liquor with an alcohol content of 5.8%, whereas most beers have a content by volume of 3.5% or less. Black community leaders were outraged claiming that this product was targeting urban blacks. I am not making this up. So, due to pressure from Federal regulators, the company retracted the product from distribution. One year later, the product was re-introduced as Colt 45 Premium with an alcohol content of 5.9%, with much success….even though the can had the same design as PowerMaster!

Politicos today pander endlessly to the ‘oppressed minority’ because, like Seinfeld re-runs, they continue to make money off it. Perceived slights are overstated for their sympathy factor and if none are available, some are made up out of whole cloth as in the Smollet case. In fact, as some have observed, overt racist attacks are so rare that they have to pay people from out of the country to do them. This enables these champions of the people to strengthen their political power since otherwise, they would have no platform.

Modern social justice ‘fighters’ truly have no original content, so like the Seinfeld re-runs, they beat on the same old themes which have always brought them success. And like the re-runs there continues to be an audience for this. But it gets tiring and it’s predictable. Even the most sympathetic amongst us will tire of same thing ad nauseum especially if we know the ending. To paraphrase a line from an old Seinfeld episode, “hey the 1880’s called, they’ve run out of outrage”.

link Ferguson Protests: Rev. Jesse Jackson Leads Demonstrators Through City Hours After Clashes With Police.

This is like the old Ghostbusters theme song.  When a racial riot breaks out, “who ya gonna call?” RACEBAITERS!  Jackson and Sharpton of course.  In fairness, I’m not sure anyone put out a call to either one of them, like the bat signal at the first sign of possible racial conflict.  Both of these hustlers can smell a race conflict from all the way across the country like a bloodhound sniffs body odor.  They probably have a google app which searches for this stuff.

Even the local Missouri blacks embroiled in the ‘demonstration’ are asking “who called y’all?” Jackson may have lost some style points when he passed around a collection plate after his speech; old habits and all that.  The days when Jackson and Sharpton purport to speak on behalf of, or “lead” aggrieved blacks have long disappeared along with elaborate afros.  In fact, the only contingent that perpetuates and legitimizes their existence is the media.  It’s preposterous to report that the views of either one of these hustlers is representative of a nation of 40 million black people.  It’s as if the opinions of Charlie Sheen were sought out after a controversial death of a white person.

It never even dawns upon the media that to accept and propagate the views of the irrelevant reverends is racist in itself.  Why don’t they seek the opinions of Thomas Sowell or Ben Carson or Condaleeza Rice?  While media loves to push the narrative of a divisive racial society, they in fact actively promote the assumption of single mindedness among blacks, treating them as if they were an homogenous segment and not individuals, the very definition of racism.

So in Missouri, we have a crime incident, sad of course, but essentially local, blown up into an international racial conflagration by the combination of a lazy and sensationalist media, noted hustlers and a naïve public.  No less than Ban Ki-Moon, the secretary general of the U.N. has asked for the U.S. government to protect free demonstrations.  The U.N.; can’t make that up.  On the same day of this incident, there were 25 to 30 shootings, mainly of blacks, in Chicago.  There’s even a website that maps the incidents;

shootings in Chicago

That kind of stuff is old hat in Chicago and barely gets any righteous indignation any more.  It certainly doesn’t sell papers.  In Missouri, they’re supposed to be more skeptical of things and not be gullible to spurious news. You’d expect more from the ‘show me’ state.