{"id":214457,"date":"2016-09-21T16:14:16","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T20:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/09\/21\/in_the_second_term_of_the_first_black_president_rioting_is_the_new_normal\/"},"modified":"2018-01-26T20:08:41","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T01:08:41","slug":"in_the_second_term_of_the_first_black_president_rioting_is_the_new_normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/09\/21\/in_the_second_term_of_the_first_black_president_rioting_is_the_new_normal\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Second Term of the First Black President, Rioting Is the New Normal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH:  It\u2019s a sad observation, folks.  I\u2019m telling you, a sad, sad observation but it\u2019s an observation that I don\u2019t think I\u2019m alone in making.  It seems like rioting is almost expected now when there is a cop shooting.  A cop shooting, period.  Don\u2019t care about the details.  It seems like it\u2019s now axiomatic that there\u2019s going to be rioting or massive public protests or threats of rioting or threats of unrest every time the cops have to draw their weapons. <\/p>\n

Now, stop and think about this.  Where are we here?  We\u2019re in the United States of America.  We are in the second term of the presidency of the first African-American president ever elected in this country, a former community organizer — ah — agitator, organizer, same thing, who promised and assured us, via hope and change, that none of this would survive the presidency. This kind of thing was destined for the ash heap. <\/p>\n

We aren\u2019t going to have these kinds of divisive squabbles any longer because the election of the first African-American president would finally mean that we had matured and that we had seen the error of our sinful past.  The election the first African-American president, not just that act, but the man himself with his promises and his assurances is going to unify us, the country was going to become one, the nation was going to be loved by all the peoples of the world, and, via hope and change, there would be an unbridled optimism that would spread coast to coast, east to west, north to south, all across this country. <\/line><\/p>\n

And now look where we are.  We\u2019re nowhere.  In fact, not only are we nowhere near that, we have regressed.  We have regressed and we are in the process of regressing, specifically in the area of race relations, but in general throughout our culture.  Our culture is being roiled.  Our society is being torn asunder.  It is happening with happiness on the part of those doing the asundering.  They are gleeful and feel like they have an objective to accomplish here by further division, creating angst. <\/p>\n

There doesn\u2019t seem to be any desire for hope and change to mean anything positive.  There doesn\u2019t even seem to be any desire to want to try to unify to get along.  Is it a coincidence?  It seems like whenever the police anywhere — in Charlotte you have a black chief; you have a largely African-American city government; you have a largely black police force.  And I think in the case of Charlotte you have an African-American cop.  Why?  Wasn\u2019t the election of these people and wasn\u2019t the commensurate rise in political power for African-Americans to mayoralties and city councils, wasn\u2019t that supposed to also bring about, not an end, I mean, nothing ever ends, but why are things getting worse here? <\/p>\n

You could look at this in some ways and say that our country, the people in our country, have actually tried to bring a halt to this.  The majority of people in this country have done a lot of what they think they can do to demonstrate that they are not racists.  African-Americans are routinely elected to positions of power all over this country, particularly in the Deep South.  And yet it doesn\u2019t seem to have mattered.  Why is that? <\/p>\n

I wish it had mattered.  It doesn\u2019t seem to, though.  Black Lives Matter gets into gear no matter the specific circumstances of any particular police event now.  It doesn\u2019t matter what the details are.  We have a police event, a cop draws a weapon, cop fires a weapon, that\u2019s all we need to know. It\u2019s all we need to know and we\u2019re gonna get into gear, and we\u2019re gonna find something to protest all in the second term of the first African-American president in this country who promised and assured us that these are the kinds of things that would cease. These are the kinds of things that we were going to finally be able to get past. <\/line><\/p>\n

I\u2019m telling you, we are regressing and it\u2019s a shame.  It\u2019s just an abject shame.  When I say “nobody wants this,” I\u2019m talking about reasonable people.  Nobody wants this, what\u2019s happening in Tulsa today, last night, Charlotte, nobody wants this.  But some do.  Some are feeding off of it.  Not new, I know.  But I keep going back to hope and change.  This was supposed to end because there was supposed to be hope.  The election of Barack Hussein O, that meant there was hope, that means that we had changed direction, we were headed in a new direction, a positive direction. <\/p>\n

There was to be a new sensitivity, a new awareness. In fact, people on the left were using the term “postracial society” to describe what the country would be like after the election of Barack Hussein Obama.  We\u2019re not post- anything.  We\u2019re worse post.  We\u2019re ipso post.  We\u2019re whatever is happening.  It ain\u2019t for the better.  We are digressing, we are regressing, and it\u2019s just downright shame.  <\/p>\n

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Black Lives Matter goes to the White House and gets praised to the hilt.  Black Lives Matter gets honored at the White House.  My question is, were they radicalized before they went to the White House or after they left the White House?  Well, it\u2019s a fair question, is it not?  When did Black Lives Matter become really radicalized, before they went to the Oval Office or after?  Well, it seems like violence and property destruction are the judge-and-jury justice that we have today. <\/p>\n

The mob determines right and wrong and then hands down the sentence then and there. The Justice Department watches from afar, and after everybody gets through tearing up a town, the Justice Department walks in there with Loretta Lynch and claims, “The police department\u2019s racist! We\u2019re gonna have to take it over, and we\u2019re gonna have to impose our federal guidelines.  Charlotte, you\u2019re next.  Tulsa, we\u2019ll be there before the end of the year before Obama\u2019s term\u2019s up.  Thank you.”  I don\u2019t know, folks.  It\u2019s just nobody wants this — except those who do — and it\u2019s a hell of a thing.<\/line><\/p>\n

But when you ask, “Who profits?  Who benefits?”  Somebody is.  Somebody does.  <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Grab audio sound bites one, two, and three, then we\u2019re gonna grab a phone call or two on this.  This is the Mecklenburg police chief, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg police chief Kerr Putney, and he\u2019s speaking with the police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott, a resident in Charlotte. <\/p>\n

Remember, now, we have an African-American Charlotte police chief, we have an African-American victim, yet what is Black Lives Matter all about?  White cops murdering innocent black men.  That\u2019s the narrative, that\u2019s the meme, that\u2019s the thing they raise money on and radicalize over.  Not only do we have a black police chief here, we have a white mayor but black town council, if I\u2019ve got that right. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s a predominantly black city government in Charlotte, North Carolina.  I just throw that out there, because it does matter.  If they\u2019re gonna be the ones to make this about race, and if they\u2019re gonna try to establish another Ferguson narrative here — that a white cop ran around, murdered an innocent black citizen, so it\u2019s Black Lives Matter to the rescue — it\u2019s not the case here.  The facts do not match the Black Lives Matter narrative.  Here is the police chief…<\/p>\n

PUTNEY: The officers gave loud, clear, verbal commands which were also heard by many of the witnesses.  They were instructing in the subject, once he got out of the vehicle, to drop the weapon.  In spite of their verbal commands Mr. Scott, as I said, exited his vehicle with a handgun as the officers continued to yell at him to drop it.  He stepped out, posing a threat to the officers, and Officer Brentley Vinson subsequently fired his weapon, striking the subject.<\/p>\n