One fatal shot echoes across a divided US (Unbelievable!)

The Peninsula Weekly ^ | March 31, 2012 | Nick O'Malley

[2ndDivisionVet]

Can you guess what Donald Tibbs, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Charles Blow and Trymaine Lee all have in common?

[SES1066]

Melatonin or a permanent tan?

[chris37]

Stupidity.

[ClearCase_guy]

The boy, Trayvon Martin, was black. The man, George Zimmerman, is white.

WHAT?!?

And we're just hearing about this now??

I had no idea there was a racial angle to this story!!

[JudgemAll]

They want the Affirmative ACtion version of self defense.

[umgud]

Conversely, he says, it seems Trayvon might have been protected by Stand Your Ground laws had he killed Mr Zimmerman.

BS, Zimmerman wasn't standing his ground, he was on his back getting his ass kicked.

If Martin had kept his fists to himself, he'd be alive today and the Justice Bro's would have to troll elsewhere for another gig.

[livius]

Ignorance of Florida? That’s not the Panhandle.

[gaijin]

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Concept credit: freeper Vanilla Swirl

[Brilliant]

“Mr Zimmerman has not been arrested because under Florida’s so-called Stand Your Ground law it is legal to kill someone you fear may be threatening you.”

Which is utter bull because the Stand Your Ground law has absolutely nothing to do with this case. But with all the gun enthusiasts coming out of the woodwork to insist that it does, it’s a virtual certainty that the law will be modified, if not repealed altogether. Talk about slitting your own throat...

[bigheadfred]

sympathy for Trayvon and his family universal

Yeah. Speak for me....

[Bizhvywt]

““Mr Zimmerman has not been arrested because under Florida’s so-called Stand Your Ground law it is legal to kill someone you fear may be threatening you.””

“Which is utter bull because the Stand Your Ground law has absolutely nothing to do with this case. But with all the gun enthusiasts coming out of the woodwork to insist that it does, it’s a virtual certainty that the law will be modified, if not repealed altogether. Talk about slitting your own throat...”

This needs repeating.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

USA 2012 = Salem Massachusetts 1692

Growing up, I wondered about how adults could be the way they were, in the story "The Emperors New Clothes":

The Emperors New Clothes

And the Salem Witch trials:

Salem Witch Trials

As an adult, I am shocked how easily, the behavior which confused me as a child, is fomented now, 2012, right here in America, in adults.

And now, I understand it's still possible ... for equally irrational behavior to happen exactly as in those seemingly fictional people in those long ago stories. Right her in America. In the 21st century. And I am gobsmacked.

History repeats.

Even now.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Completely ignoring the fact that Zimmerman is Hispanic and that by all accounts he was attacked.

[JoSixChip]

"Yeah. Speak for me.... "

Kinda like the 99%ers, they claim to speak for you as well.

[Josa]

Channon Christian and Christopher Newsome

[Batman11]

“Can you guess what Donald Tibbs, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Charles Blow and Trymaine Lee all have in common?”

Are they Sons of Obama?

[Flintlock]

Information and facts are meaningless, here.

THESE ARE THE OPENING GUNS OF THE OBAMA RE-ELECTION!

[bigheadfred]

The 99 niners.

They are soooo deer to me

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[bigheadfred]

The Mansion is Warm At The Top Of the Hill

[2ndDivisionVet]

Sons of Obama/Holder’s People...