Hobamaspeak vs Barkleyspeak

WSJ reports:

A New York City grand jury on Wednesday declined to indict a police officer in the death of an unarmed African-American, sparking a federal investigation and renewing a wave of protests that swept the country after another black man was fatally shot by an officer in Missouri.

The grand jury’s decision outraged many New York elected officials, and city leaders called for calm as protesters marched through Manhattan, denouncing the death of Eric Garner, 43 years old, who died after being held in an apparent police chokehold on July 17 in the borough of Staten Island.

The decision also elicited a quick reaction from President Barack Obama , who said Mr. Garner’s death “speaks to the larger issues” of trust between police and civilians. He renewed a vow to repair police-community relations.

Attorney General Eric Holder announced Wednesday night that the Justice Department would launch an “independent, thorough, fair, and expeditious” civil rights probe into Mr. Garner’s death. The department had been monitoring the local investigation of the case.

“His death of course was a tragedy. All lives must be valued,” the attorney general said, acknowledging that some are “disappointed and frustrated” by the grand jury decision. He added that “we must seek to heal the breakdown in trust that we have seen” between law enforcement and minority communities.

Just as George Orwell invented the term Newspeak in his novel 1984, we need to invent a new term: Hobamaspeak.

The definition of Hobamaspeak is: to speak as Attorney General Holder and President Obama do; to speak in banal platitudes and truisms that convey the message that the irrational inability of some blacks to accept the findings of grand juries and to act out lawlessly and riot in reaction to them will be "understood" and tolerated, and that local police forces, in particular, police forces with a majority of white officers, will be blocked by the Federal government through investigations and other coercive means from enforcing the law against blacks who break it.

Antonym: Barkleyspeak. Barkleyspeak is defined as: to speak as Charles Barkley does; to speak bluntly, but honestly about how certain black "scumbags" must (as most "real black people" do) face facts, refrain from rioting, assume responsibility for their own success or failure, be judged by the same standards as all other citizens, and be grateful for the police forces that preserve the peace in their communities.

When Obama and Holder speak of the "breakdown in trust between the police and communities of color" or state that blacks are "frustrated and disappointed" by grand jury decisions, they suggest that such mistrust, frustration, and disappointment are warranted. But, this frustration, disappointment, and mistrust are warranted only insofar as the police have done something wrong. So, Obama and Holder are, in effect, implying that the police (and the grand juries that have refused to indict them) are, in fact, doing something wrong. But, if the police, the enforcers of the law, are behaving unjustly, then what reason is there for blacks to obey the law? Obama and Holder are actually speaking in such a way as to erode the trust between police and blacks even further. Instead of discouraging riots, Hobamaspeak foments them.