Posted on 07/13/2013 11:59:59 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Theres no predicting what a jury will do.
But whatever the George Zimmerman jury decides, Trayvon Martins parents have gotten justice for their son.
Sabrina Fulton and Tracy Martin have forced the entire nation to look at the harm racial profiling can cause.
Young black males die daily in urban areas across the country, and many of the people who are responsible for the deaths never set foot in a courtroom, let alone stand trial.
These young black males are killed while standing on corners and riding buses. They are gunned down while sitting on porches and walking home from the corner store.
Frankly, if Trayvon had been killed during a confrontation with another black person who lived in the same gated community where Zimmerman lived, I doubt that so many people outside the boys family would have reacted as strongly as they did to Trayvons death.
But black people are weary of fighting the battle for equality on so many fronts.
It is bad enough that so many unarmed black males have been killed by law enforcement in recent years, but the idea that a self-styled watchman has the right to confront a 17-year-old simply because he didnt like the boys looks was too much.
When the dead teens parents started a petition on Change.org demanding that Zimmerman be arrested, more than a million people signed.
So while prosecutors argued in closing arguments that this case wasnt about race, it was very much about race.
Zimmerman is a white Hispanic and Trayvon was black, and the age where in some places black males are feared and loathed.....
(Excerpt) Read more at suntimes.com ...
“7+ hours...hung jury or manslaughter...sigh.”
No kidding. I knew the guy was sunk when I saw that there was not one man on the jury. The Rule of Law is history in the United States, and has been replaced by the Rule of Feelings. I see it on a daily basis.
Mary Mitchell is an angrey black woman who NEVER fails to interject race into her scribbles.
Mary Mitchel is an idiot and a buffoon.
This dumb clown couldn’t think her way out of an open box of Skittles.
Did you notice how much the witness, black man, teacher, and Army Reserve Officer, Alexis Carter, liked George Zimmerman? Now, an impartial person has to ask how if GZ was such a racist Mr. Carter didn’t pick up on it in his classroom. And why didn’t the prosecution ask if Mr. Carter believed Zimmerman had a hatred for blacks? I’m sure the prosecutor didn’t ask it because he knew that Zimmerman hated blacks no more than he hated anyone.
And when the detective tried to shake him from his story by telling him (a lie) that there was a tape available of what had happened, he didn’t change his story. He expressed relief knowing he’d be vindicated. The truth would come out, then. As it was, it took tremendous courage for anyone to say that Trayvon was the aggressor until he reached for the gun and failed to get it in before Zimmerman. Zimmerman saved Zimmerman’s life. For some folks, self defense is a crime.
The entire affair is about the erosion of property rights by the Black community.
Zimmerman was there to guard property rights.
Martin was there loitering in the night in the rain in a strange neighborhood, behaving without any respect for the property rights of others where he was visiting, expecting he was entitled to anything and everything and only guilty if he was not only caught, but with more than adequate evidence to convict him in a court of law. Any other person would have naturally been conscientious of their environment, recognizing they were behaving suspiciously, causing grief amongst the residents fearing they were threatened to either be burgled or mugged by his presence.
The “entitlement class” has received welfare in a myriad of forms for so long, that several generations have become accustomed to receiving anything they seek without being required to work for its fair value. They have grown up to see nothing wrong in stealing whatever they want provided they aren’t caught and brought to justice. They have further degenerated to now associating any opposition to their corruption as a racial attack. That becomes a prejudicial trigger to their further rebellion to any rule of law.
It became a national issue when the Obama Administration mobilized black sentiment to further erode property rights.
It is a move to promote a way of thinking independent of what God has provided to man in the forms of property rights, and to replace it with a rebellious nature arrogantly disregarding the property rights of others.
It's only astounding when we incorrectly assume that body politic thinks the same way we think.
This issue exposes their degenerate thinking.
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