Those reporting on the story reveal that the killer was a disturbed, angry, difficult man with a history of violence. Though he accused everyone around him of being racist, including the young woman he murdered (whom he may have once dated), it's clear that he himself was the racist.
If this were a normal world, today's top stories would have something to do with #whitelivesmatter. But I'm not hearing much about race-related murder. Instead, all everyone's talking about, including Barack Obama, is gun control. Gun control. Not about an angry, bitter black man whose sense of victimization, no doubt fueled by the Left's divisive identify politics and the incendiary rhetoric of race-baiters like Louis Farrakhan, whose July 30th speech called for "10,000 men to rise up and stalk them and kill them," led to him stalking and murdering two beautiful talented young people in cold blood.
Will Barack Obama repudiate Farrakhan's repugnant words? Is this a trick question? Of course Barack Obama won't repudiate Farrakhan. Nor will he pontificate about black racism. Nor will he appeal to the higher nature of both blacks and whites in the spirit of Martin Luther King, Jr., that all lives matter.
Of course, it goes without saying, if Flanagan had been white and his victims black, there would be 24/7 hand-wringing on cable news and riots in Roanoake, Virginia. Yet while Obama et al are exploiting this tragedy for their own political agenda, let the record show that not only was Vester Lee Flanagan II black, he was also gay, he was a Democrat, and he was an Obama supporter. His sense of grievance, his sense of victimization, his claims of bigotry and racism directed towards him, were validated and reinforced by the #blacklivesmatter movement promulgated by the Left. In simple terms, Vester Lee Flanagan II is a product of this poisonous message.
Hence, the silence from the talking heads about what was clearly a hate crime committed by a black racist. Had he lived (the coward committed suicide), it is likely he would eventually have been lionized by the left. A new #blacklivesmatter meme would have been created to justify his actions, much the same as the left made up the hands-up-don't-shoot meme after the Michael Brown shooting, even though Michael Brown not only never raised his hands in surrende, it was he who was the aggressor. It was all a total lie, but truth doesn't matter to the left, only the message. So in that regard, I'm glad glad glad Vester Lee Flanagan died yesterday. All we have now are the facts. His suicide note. His video. His tweets. His work history. His Facebook rants. And the blood of Allison Parker and Adam Ward staining his wicked, depraved soul.
What's next? More of the same? Is it too much to hope, for Parker and Ward's sake, at least, that this tragedy will usher in a new conversation, a conversation not about white lives or black lives mattering but all lives mattering? It like such a cliche, but it's not. The phrase "all lives matter" is now on the hit list of politically incorrect things to say. So, unfortunately, I don't think that particular conversation will take place until Obama is out of office and until a man or woman with integrity, courage, and conservative values is elected president. I believe Barack Obama has done more to divide this country along racial lines than unite it. And until he rebukes radical racists like Louis Farrakhan, it's safe to say Obama bears some responsibility for what happened yesterday morning.
Rest in peace, Allison Parker and Adam Ward.
