While black activists like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton continue their assault of whites using the Zimmerman verdict as an excuse, whites have been timid to call it like it is. Perhaps it is white guilt for the centuries gone by when blacks had legitimate complaints about slavery and persecution. Perhaps it is the fear that if whites speak up they will pay a price, economically in their jobs, trades or professions, or even with their physical well-being. Indeed, following the Zimmerman verdict of not-guilty, he was in effect threatened with death by even some prominent public persons, such as Victor Cruz, a star football player of the New York Giants. Cruz boasted on Twitter, “Zimmerman doesn’t last a year before the hood catches up with him.” And, all time great songwriter Stevie Wonder threatened Florida with a boycott by blacks that would no longer frequent the Sunshine State on vacation. It is no “Wonder” many whites, like myself, had to snicker at this threat – since a black boycott, under the circumstances following the Zimmerman verdict, might actually increase tourism to Florida. However, in reality, what is going on in the country today between blacks and whites is far from funny. It is the sad result of black racism by the likes of Jackson, Sharpton and, even worse, our so-called President Barack Hussein Obama who effectively and predictably sided with the Martin family from the get go of this tragic mess.
But while whites are loath to speak out, I have to take my hat off to my old good friend, the Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson of BOND, the Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny. Jesse Lee is a black person who is a credit to his noble race, someone who calls it like it is even though by doing so he has been threatened and even assaulted. During my days as chairman and general counsel of Judicial Watch, I brought a case for Jesse Lee against Jesse Jackson and television Judge Mathis for battering Jesse Lee at an event Jackson had put on to extort money from Toyota. True to form, Jackson had claimed that Toyota was mistreating blacks. The event was meant to threaten Toyota and squeeze money out of the company to address Jackson’s claims of racial discrimination.