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A Salute to Earl Ofari Hutchinson

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Al, baby.

Where are you, kiddo?

We miss ya.

And so do 333 million Americans.

Pastor Al Sharpie, America’s third-best known black racist, executed a Ted Cooke this week.

He dived under the nearest hideaway bed when he learned that a very bad black boy in Duncan, OK, for kicks, randomly gunned down a white 22-year-old Australian young man who came to this country to become a baseball player.

President Obama, who has butted into every racial story of consequence in five years at the White House, has been strangely silent on the slaying of Christopher Lane.

It well may not have been a racially motivated crime, but neither was George Zimmerman’s takedown of the hooded Punk Trayvon Martin – and that did not stop the Messrs. Sharpie and Obama.

Which brings us to a most commendable action by Dr. Earl Ofari Hutchinson, leader of the Urban Policy Round Table discussion group.

On his weekly 9 o’clock radio program this morning on KTYM (1460), Dr. Hutchinson admirably challenged other civil rights leaders to publicly condemn the murder of the East Central University baseball player Mr. Lane, by  James Francis Edwards Jr., 15, Michael Dewayne Jones, 17, and Chancey Allen Luna, 16, all of Duncan.

Dr. Hutchinson announced he will make a donation directly to the support fund established to aid the family of Mr. Lane. He urged other civil rights leaders to not only speak out but also contribute to the Lane family support fund.