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Poll shows big racial divide in opinion on Trayvon Martin case
Yahoo! News ^ | April 6, 2012 | Liz Goodwin

Posted on 04/06/2012 9:27:34 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Americans are sharply divided by race in their opinion of the shooting of an unarmed black teenager in Florida by a Hispanic neighborhood watchman.

A Gallup/USA Today poll finds that most black Americans (73 percent) think Trayvon Martin's shooter, George Zimmerman, would have been arrested if Martin had been white. Only 33 percent of non-Hispanic white people said the same thing.

The racial divide on Zimmerman's guilt was also big: 51 percent of black people said Zimmerman is "definitely guilty" based on the information available, compared to only 10 percent of whites. About 20 percent of both whites and blacks said Zimmerman was "probably guilty."(continued)

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TOPICS: Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: georgezimmerman; mediabias; mediamalpractice; obamaracism; polls; trayvon; trayvonmartin; zimmerman
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Its not a matter of black opinion vs white. Its a matter of black opinion vs everyone else’s.


21 posted on 04/06/2012 9:59:17 AM PDT by skeeter
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It cracks me up the way the left likes to tell us the US is becoming increasingly diverse, meaning non-white... until instances like this when they want us to believe America consists of only poor benighted blacks and racist whites.


22 posted on 04/06/2012 10:01:42 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: ClearCase_guy

Family stories passed down from generation to generation has it that my great-great-great grandfather was lynched in 1864 in Arkansas for being a Union sympathizer.


23 posted on 04/06/2012 10:04:00 AM PDT by FortWorthPatriot (Obama is no Hitler; Hitler got the Olympics)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Black people are now slaves to lies.


24 posted on 04/06/2012 10:04:38 AM PDT by bmwcyle (I am ready to serve Jesus on Earth because the GOP failed again)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What I’m shocked over is that ONLY 73% of blacks think Zimmerman should be arrested, and ONLY 51% think he’s probably guilty.

I would have thought both numbers would have been in the 90% range. Someone is slipping.


25 posted on 04/06/2012 10:15:08 AM PDT by rusty schucklefurd
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is this Obama’s Willie Horton moment?


26 posted on 04/06/2012 10:27:47 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: rusty schucklefurd

I’ve noticed that the older this gets, the more the opinion shifts away from “guilty” among blacks. Almost like they’re starting to feel they’ve been had a little on this.


27 posted on 04/06/2012 10:29:23 AM PDT by FrdmLvr (culture, language, borders)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Did the poll include any questions about Skittles?


28 posted on 04/06/2012 10:30:54 AM PDT by matt1234 (Bring back the HUAC.)
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To: tumblindice
New book points to Jason Simpson as "Real Killer"
29 posted on 04/06/2012 10:40:55 AM PDT by Harley (Will Rogers never met Harry Reid.)
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To: cripplecreek

And don’t leave out O.J.

All evidence pointed to OJ and yet he got off. I’ve heard blacks say they knew he was guilty but it’s cool a brother got away with killing two white people.


30 posted on 04/06/2012 10:56:07 AM PDT by Jack Burton007 (This is Jack Burton in the Pork Chop Express, and I'm talkin' to whoever's listenin' out there.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Not to mention many of those lynched had actually committed crimes.


31 posted on 04/06/2012 11:01:57 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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32 posted on 04/06/2012 11:08:02 AM PDT by RedMDer (https://support.woundedwarriorproject.org/default.aspx?tsid=93)
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To: Harley

Saw the author the other day with the “murder knife” What is Jason doing these days?


33 posted on 04/06/2012 12:28:15 PM PDT by hoosiermama
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The racial divide on Zimmerman's guilt was also big: 51 percent of black people said Zimmerman is "definitely guilty" based on the information available

Given the false and misleading information in the mainstream media (NBC, ABC, et al.), and the asinine things spouted by folks like Jesse Jackson (told a church Trayvon was shot in the head) it's amazing only 51% of black people have concluded Zimmerman is "definitely guilty" based on the propaganda they specifically have been fed.

34 posted on 04/06/2012 1:14:46 PM PDT by newzjunkey (Newt says, "A nominee that depresses turnout won't beat Barack Obama.")
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To: cripplecreek

I wonder how many blacks would still want Zimmerman sent to prison if they knew Zimmerman acted in self defense? I bet that percentage would be over 50%.


35 posted on 04/06/2012 3:23:13 PM PDT by peeps36 (America is being destroyed by filthy traitors in the political establishment)
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