Racism Is Dumb
While this is indeed tragic, I don’t know if the Obama shirt was really the reason this happened:
Dube Egwuatu was buying a mobile telephone top-up card in an off-licence when the gunman confronted him and glared at the top, which carries an image of the Democrat US presidential candidate underneath the legend ‘Believe’.
The man then launched into a tirade of racist slurs, shouting ‘I f***ing hate n*****s’ and urging 36-year-old Mr Egwuatu to leave the shop with him.
The man then left the shop but when Mr Egwuatu re-emerged, the attacker was waiting for him in broad daylight with a threatening-looking dog and holding a gun behind his back.
Realising what had sparked the increasingly violent assault, the terrified Mr Egwuatu zipped up his jacket to cover the image of Mr Obama and walked to his car.
But the shaven-headed man, who was white, followed Mr Egwuatu and after pulling open the passenger door pointed the gun at him.
After pleading with the man to leave him alone, the married former street warden put the keys in the ignition and turned the engine on.
The attacker then fired the gas-powered ball-bearing pistol three times, hitting the civil servant in the face, hand and shoulder.
This is terrible and, yes, clearly an act of racism as shown by the attacker’s rant. Mr. Egwuatu himself is black, but we’re supposed to believe that if this man were wearing any other shirt the racist attacker would have not said a word. Might have even been pals were he wearing a McCain or Palin shirt.
Oh, and this happened in London. England.
Some on the left will ask you to believe that this is a result of “codewords” from the McCain camp that is inciting global racism. But a more reasonable approach may be that, hey, THE SHOOTER WAS CRAZY and perhaps the shirt was moot.
Many are saying the race card has come out often in this race and they’re right. It has, and way too often. But usually by Obama supporters trying to demogauge any words or actions from the opposition.
When a man gets berated and shot merely because of the color of his skin, yes, that’s racism and horrible. That people are still out there who would do such a thing is an abomination. But to imply a grander sceme to it and attempt to tie it to something entirely unassociated is to overplay the race card and cheapen what really happened in an attempt to score political points.
