Is Obama about to create a race incident?

I don't know if the following simply reflects standard operating procedure or, given past contrivances of the radical left and the current administration, a harbinger of things to come. In either case, we should probably know one way or the other in fairly short order.

Last Wednesday, in one of the most despicable displays I've heard in a long time, racial provocateur Jesse Jackson outlined a paranoid vision of America pertaining to race relations, misrepresenting the politics of one conservative politician and one conservative president, neither of whom were able to counter his slander because they're long-deceased.

At Furman University in Greenville, S.C., Jackson claimed that former President Ronald Reagan and former presidential candidate Barry Goldwater had been proponents of segregation. "Goldwater and Reagan – had they been successful, it would have been illegal for blacks and whites to play together on a Saturday afternoon," Jackson said, claiming that the American South is "the land of the free, the home of genocide."

Where the hell he gets off spewing such incendiary and inaccurate calumnies at this point in our history is anyone's guess. That some still heed, let alone respect this creature is the real problem.

Last Friday, the New York Times published an item by John Harwood that similarly propagandized the state of race relations and the Republican Party's deportment with regard to race. Employing clever if furtive suggestions that white Republicans disfavor Obamacare because the president is black, Harwood contextualized the comments of those Republicans he quoted to suit his account, a fanciful if desperately cynical and dangerous one.

As I mentioned, I might have taken this as routine far left race-baiting, but I'm inclined to think it's more than that. In true community-organizer fashion, the Obama administration has been keenly adroit at capitalizing upon events in order to advance its objectives. If you'll recall, Obama and Co. were on the February 2012 shooting of Trayvon Martin almost within hours, helping to shape the narrative that turned George Zimmerman from an American Latino defending himself against a belligerent young thug into a sinister Wagnerian Anglo huntsman, prowling the night looking for hapless black children to murder. The Department of Justice was even caught funneling funds and personnel to aid anti-Zimmerman activists during his trial.

Inasmuch as this crowd pioneered the orchestrated crisis, in my view it would be profoundly imprudent to dismiss the possibility that the administration might go beyond exploiting tense racial situations (or those that might be construed as such, even if remotely) and actually create some.

It's been reported that in recent weeks that President Obama has conducted meetings with "select" members of the press. Obviously it's natural for a president to wish to ingratiate himself to members of the press to some extent and convey his ideas to them, but considering his timing and characteristically aloof manner, I am inclined toward suspicion. The Associated Press recently expressed displeasure at being fed "propaganda" photos by the administration and only being given access to the president for photo ops twice in five years, and there have been other recent indicators that the press at large is finding this White House increasingly difficult to work with.

Then, there's the fact that the identities of the individuals participating in these powwows have been kept secret.

Is it possible that our propagandist-in-chief "innocently" impressed upon certain starry-eyed, Obama-worshiping journalists how tenuous he believes things are with regard to race in order to manipulate them into bringing these issues to the collective top of mind through their reporting? Further, might he be doing so as a precursor to some manner of "false flag" racial incident or incidents that are in the works? It does seem interesting that in addition to the usual suspects (like Jesse Jackson), we are seeing an upsurge in race-related rhetoric and reportage, despite nothing in particular having transpired in this area lately.

While race-baiting is nothing new for the left, the aforementioned incidents appear to have come somewhat out of left field with regard to the news cycle. Should some high profile, highly unpleasant race-related incident occur in the near future, it wouldn't be the first time such a thing happened at a juncture that proved to be advantageous to the administration.

At this particular juncture, one might say that the Obama administration could use all the help it can get, considering Americans' anger over the Obamacare rollout, mounting concern with regard to the several scandals in which the president is involved, his plummeting approval rating and the growing alienation of the press.

Let's just hope that "help" is not forthcoming, for all our sakes.