The "If I Had A Son Speech"

A great black leader once gave a great speech. It is called the "I have a dream" speech. Today, we have a, not so great, black leader who has given what could be called the "If I had a son" speech. "If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon'" that's what he said. With these words along with whatever else he mumbled out in his convoluted reaction to a killing that no one had any facts to form a conclusion, he declared one person guilty and one person innocent, the one that looked like his son, thus spitting in the eye of the great man who gave the I have a dream speech, whose basic premise he had devoted his life to was a society that judged one another totally devoid of what one looked like. Since the door was opened by his, If I have a son speech, I wonder if in reaction to several other recent crimes we might soon hear again from our morale arbiter in like manner. For example, If he had a son, he would look like De'Marquise Elkins, he's the 18 year old black kid that shot a white baby in the face because, while robbing the white mother, she had no money to give him. Perhaps he could also say "If I had a son, he would look like James Edwards or Chancey Luna," they shot and killed a white man jogging recently because they were bored, or how about the three black kids seen on video attempting to beat a white kid to death on a school bus recently, it the president had a son, he would look like any of these three youths. Where is that speech? The first, If I had a son speech should have never been given and certainly not the ones I mention because they have no bearing on anything and mean nothing. Such things are meant to inflame passions of others into reaction based not on fact, but emotion, and that is wrong. Evil knows no color and does not consider the skin color of the vessel used to harm others and it does us no good to do so either. cjpost