The BS meter goes off again...

Oh Oprah - I didn't think I could find you even more off-base than I already do; no, it's not a gender thing or a race thing, it a "foolishness thing" - I simply do not buy the new-age crap she spouts and I blame her for Dr. Phil.

But then she comes along to tell us about the true meaning of the Trayvon Martin incident, invoking the murder of Emmett Till sixty years ago.

Look - there's a problem here - an obvious problem. I will not recount all of it, because anyone who really wants to know the details of the Zimmerman/Martin tragedy can find them either here in previous posts or elsewhere. I know it is not comfortable or acceptable to Oprah and many others, but the details of the event are largely agreed upon by experts and have been judged by a court of law. I know that, if one is willing to stop at the level of the race of the decedent and perpetrators, they may be able to manufacture similarities (although Zimmerman is Hispanic, he is a white Hispanic). And, sadly, there are those who prefer to stop at that level of analysis since it suits their agenda.

I will not recount a history that anyone who wants to (and if you are reading or accepting Oprah's opinion, then you should want to) can find. But Till was abducted and murdered in Mississippi for apparently flirting with a white woman. His killers were acquitted.

Till did not assault his killers; Martin initiated and was committing assault and battery at the time he was shot by Zimmerman in self-defense. No flirting with white women, no abduction, none of the mutilation committed in the Till case. The Martin case is a case that could happen, does happen, many times in our nation. One person initiates aggression by physically assaulting another who reasonably believes his life is in danger and successfully defends himself. Given how often it happens, it is not surprise that it will sometimes involves an aggressor and a defender who are of different races; sometimes in one combination sometimes in another. This time it was a black youth committing assault and a "white" defender. To equate that with the Emett Till case is an act of sheer race-baiting in the service and a given agenda.

Let's be honest; Oprah and others know where they want all of this to go, they have a goal. Now they are working hard to find anything they can use, no matter how unrelated, as a means of getting there. If this includes grasping at straws, then so be it. It is not the first time Oprah has said something foolish.