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The Continuing Killing of Trayvon Martin
Open Salon ^ | May 10, 2012 | Allan Goldstein

Posted on 05/10/2012 8:24:32 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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Have the planes and ships quit running from here to Africa?
1 posted on 05/10/2012 8:24:36 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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But when a sort-of-white wannabe cop and neighborhood bully kills a black teenager, a couple of strange, powerful things happen.

They can't give up their false narrative.

They think no one will notice.

2 posted on 05/10/2012 8:27:42 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Do I really need a sarcasm tag? Seriously? You're that dense?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Mr. Zimmerman is 1/4 Hispanic, 1/2 white and 1/4 black, from most accounts I’ve read.


3 posted on 05/10/2012 8:28:53 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Ich habe keinen Konig aber Gott)
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Guns save lives and the lives of those who want to keep on living. That is the problem democrates have.


4 posted on 05/10/2012 8:29:27 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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Not a bad article, but if the bl@cks are so poorly treated here, what’s keeping them from going back home? LEAVE if you don’t like it.


5 posted on 05/10/2012 8:30:01 AM PDT by bicyclerepair ( REPLACE D-W-S ! http://www.karenforcongress.com)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

And who else is Obama, or Sharpton? Aside from being some sort of half-black wannabe cops?


6 posted on 05/10/2012 8:30:50 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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Eighteen. That’s how many black people are murdered per day in America

The elephant in this world wide media room is, "how many of these 18 blacks were killed by other blacks?"

If that question cannot be dealt with honestly, within the real context of the cultural problem that exists within the black community, then complaining about the 'number' of blacks killed is pointless and all the other suppositions, bias and conjecture is meaningless.

7 posted on 05/10/2012 8:31:16 AM PDT by Gaffer
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It’s not about the crime...
It’s not about the cast...
It’s about how Jesse and Al and NOI and the rest can make money


8 posted on 05/10/2012 8:33:34 AM PDT by MS from the OC (Obama taking credit for killing OBL is like Nixon taking credit for landing on the moon, John Bolton)
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there is no evidence (not even hearsay) that Zimmerman was a ‘neighborhood bully.’

They won’t drop that narrative.


9 posted on 05/10/2012 8:33:34 AM PDT by altura (Looking for sanity in all the wrong places.)
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Some lessons must be relearned whenever something terrible happens that reminds us all of our nation’s original sin.

I don't give a rat's ass about any of that. When I see 3 consecutive black females at my local Target whip out their EBT cards, as I did on Tuesday night, and every white customer is paying cash, it pisses me off. BIG time.

10 posted on 05/10/2012 8:34:47 AM PDT by montag813
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" the killer becomes a Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan."

....the writer better be careful...the Democrats started and ran the Ku Klux Klan.

"A black man killing another black man is an all-too-common tragedy. A white man killing a black man is an act of race war."

What a twisted mind it must take to forget history, accept "tragedy" and blame whitey...just because they are white.

11 posted on 05/10/2012 8:35:59 AM PDT by goodnesswins (What has happened to America?)
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We know the victim, affectionately, by his first name, the killer by his last. Why?

Because those are near-unique identifiers, unlike "Martin" and "George".

12 posted on 05/10/2012 8:37:57 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (Cloud storage? Dropbox rocks! Sign up at http://db.tt/nQqWGd3 for 2GB free (and I get more too).)
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Which makes him just as white as ObaMao, more Hispanic and probably more black as well.

ObaMao's black half is at least one quarter to three quarters Arab. A dirty little family secret is that the Lao tribe enjoyed privileged status in Kenya because they intermarried with Arabs. Further, those engaged in the slave trade had the additional advantage of being able to cherry-pick women captives to add to their harem.

This is why Obama researchers are able to trace his father's patriarchial lineage back several generations, but data on his father's matriarchial lineage peters out rather quickly. This is just one such source, fairly well done.

13 posted on 05/10/2012 8:40:49 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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Yes, I picked up on that “neighborhood bully” aspect, as well.


14 posted on 05/10/2012 8:43:06 AM PDT by NEMDF
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*sigh* so much wrong in an article that ALMOST tires to get something right...

"If his version of that tragedy is the truth, I hope he doesn’t suffer for it any more than he has "

Wow... finally ...but:

Zimmerman was NOT a cop wanna-be or neighborhood bully- by some reports he was a humanitarian who has come to the aid of people several times in the past- at his own personal risk, AND he was doing what he was supposed to be doing that night as part of a community watch - he was watching over his community

What was St. Trayvon of Sanford doing? Not skipping home from choir practice. His house was a straight 850 foot walk home from the store- he could have been home in 2 minutes

Instead he was walking in the dark in the rain BETWEEN the houses.

Zimmerman was not looking to gun down someone- you dont call the police in advance of committing your crime if you want to kill someone... He was reporting a suspicious person who appeared to be casing the place.

I rarely see it noted that Trayvon has a history of being caught with burglary tools and suspicious female jewelry on him (that he claimed "he didnt know" who it belonged to)

15 posted on 05/10/2012 8:43:57 AM PDT by Mr. K (If Romney wins the primary, I am writing-in PALIN)
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White people may not want to see it that way. In our hearts we may think, we are not racist, we elected a black president, we hate not. And all that is probably true for most white Americans.

Boy we screwed the pooch on that move didn't we? Did we eliminate white guilt? Not as evidenced in this case. We also got arguably the most incompetent, affirmative-action hire the world has ever seen.

16 posted on 05/10/2012 8:44:53 AM PDT by Tallguy (It's all 'Fun and Games' until somebody loses an eye!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
I read the “sort-of-white” comment as sarcasm, not as an affirmation. given the content of the rest of the piece, that seems to be what was intended.
18 posted on 05/10/2012 8:47:00 AM PDT by Michael.SF. (When you hear hooves, think horses, not zebras.)
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Actually there is testimony that, far from being a neighborhood bully, he was a neighborhood hero, going out of his way to help others. He wasn’t worried about the guy acting strangely breaking into his own home on the fatal night, but that he was about to break into some neighbor’s home.


19 posted on 05/10/2012 8:47:06 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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Ping.

Eighteen. That’s how many black people are murdered per day in America.. If you don’t have the misfortune to live near one of those eighteen, you didn’t hear about any of them.

There are nearly 7,000 African American homicides a year, but only one has grabbed us by our eyeballs and won’t let go. The Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman killing has propelled itself to the front of our national consciousness, while the others go virtually unnoticed.

Why all the attention? What so different about this case?

Nothing. It’s not about the case; it’s about the cast.

It doesn’t even matter if George Zimmerman is guilty or innocent, that’s beside the point.

The point, of course, is race.

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20 posted on 05/10/2012 8:50:00 AM PDT by LucyT
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