Where’s that darned Clarence Dupnik now that he’s really needed? You remember Dupnik, don’t you? He’s the sheriff of Pima County, Ariz. In 2010, he made the news by loudly and proudly proclaiming that he wouldn’t enforce Arizona’s SB 1070, the law that allows the state’s cops to inquire about the immigration status of anyone they legally detain if there is reasonable suspicion to believe they’re in the country illegally.
In January, a man shot up a supermarket where Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was meeting her constituents. Giffords and more than a dozen others were wounded, and six people died.
A man named Jared Loughner has been charged with the crime, but Dupnik had other culprits in mind when he launched into a self-righteous tirade about how a lack of civility caused the shootings.
And, you may also remember, Dupnik specifically singled out conservative television and radio talk show hosts as being the only ones in the nation guilty of such incivility.
That may be why we haven’t heard word one from Dupnik regarding New Black Panther Party leader Malik Zulu Shabazz’s recent comments about President Obama and his decision to allow American use of force in the Libyan civil war.
No conservative television or radio talk show host has come close to matching Shabazz’s uncivil, vitriolic and downright racist rhetoric.
But don’t take my word for it; judge for yourself. (Be forewarned that what follows is pretty nasty.)
“Whatever Barack Obama is doing this hour, he represents the white man. He represents the ideology of the white man. He represents the policies of the white man.
“He represents the CIA-setup-sabotage-lie on an African leader and bombed that man like he George Bush. He represents the white man.
“And his wife should leave the n—-r tonight. She should walk out. And his beautiful daughters should walk out on this bamboozling, buck-dancing Tom. Oh yeah, I said it.
“We’ve held back on this Negro for a long time. Done held back on him and tried to hope that the nature of the black man would somehow come to reality. And he caved in like a punk.
“And you’ve fallen into this trap, Barack Obama, and you should have listened to Louis Farrakhan a long time ago when you were at his table. But you wanna follow the white man and the white man’s time is up.
“How you gonna get out of this, Obama? One-hundred-million-dollar-a-week, $200-million-a-week disaster? How you gonna get out of it? We pray that Gadhafi survives. We pray that that black man from black Berber lineage survives. When a black man is under attack, we don’t run with the dogs. … We seen the white man coming after us the same way all the time. Only thing you see in Libya is a big case of police brutality.
“We see the way they team up on us and run us down all the time. Sometimes it’s a n—-r police chief in the lead. And this time it’s a n—-r police chief in the lead named Barack Obama.”
There you have it: an anti-white, racist tirade in which the first black president of the United States is called the N-word. I haven’t heard one word of condemnation from liberal Democrats, black or white, about Shabazz’s remarks.
That’s because those Democrats know they stood silently by when similar remarks were made about black conservatives and Republicans.
I Googled “Clarence Dupnik,” “Malik Zulu Shabazz” and “Obama,” and, quelle surprise, couldn’t find one Dupnik comment about Shabazz’s quintessentially uncivil remarks. But if Shabazz’s remarks aren’t considered uncivil, then what remarks are?
Examiner Columnist Gregory Kane is a Pulitzer nominated news and opinion journalist who has covered people and politics from Baltimore to the Sudan.
