--H.L. Mencken, The Sage of Baltimore
Posted on 03/27/2012 7:49:41 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill called the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin a "murder" and the result of racial profiling, as they hosted the black teen's parents at a high-profile briefing Tuesday.
"I tell my son, you have to be careful (wearing) a hoodie," Rep. Hank Johnson, a Georgia Democrat who is black, said. "Trayvon was murdered for walking while black in a gated community."
Martin's parents also spoke at the House Judiciary Committee briefing on hate crimes and racial profiling. Organized by House Democrats, the briefing brought the heated national debate over Martin's death and the handling of the shooter to the halls of Congress for the first time. ....
Sybrina Fulton, mother of the late teen, and father Tracy Martin arrived shortly after the briefing began at 3 p.m. and received a small applause.
"I'd like to say thank you for the support," Fulton said. "Trayvon was our son. Trayvon was your son."
Rep. John Conyers, D-Michigan, also called for a moment of silence for Martin, 17, who was fatally shot by a neighborhood watch volunteer Feb.. 26 in suburban Orlando....
Family members and others have demanded Zimmerman's arrest, saying the teen was the victim of racial profiling. Zimmerman is Hispanic, with white ancestry.
The briefing was organized by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, and other Democrats. Among those on the witness list were Robert “Bobby” Parker, retired director of the Miami-Dade Police Department, and Albert E. Dodson Jr., chairman of 100 Black Men of American.
“Travon was murdered,” Rep. Fredericka Wilson, D-Fla., said at the briefing. “Racial profiling and lax gun laws all contributed to this tragedy.”
Wilson, who represents the Miami area in which Martin went to school, said after the briefing, “Trayvon was hunted down like a rabid dog, shot down in the street.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Evidently they didn’t get memo about how badly the Trayvon “narrative” is unraveling.
“I tell my son, you have to be careful (wearing) a hoodie,” Rep. Hank Johnson...
Son...listen to your father!
He knows stuff...really important stuff. Like, an island could “tip over” if too many blacks with hoodies were on it.
Typical Dem and Holder’s people knee jerk reaction. I guess they are just looking for an excuse for a racial civil war.
Calling George Zimmerman a “white-Hispanic” is six degrees of racial profiling, but that’s OK.
LOL....Hank Johnson, a real genius if there ever was one
I thought profiling was against the law.
--H.L. Mencken, The Sage of Baltimore
Dims are evil.
For some people there is -
No_Limit_*****z
It would be laughable if it wasn’t so sad.
“Rep. Hank Johnson, a Georgia Democrat who is black, said. “Trayvon was murdered for walking while black in a gated community.” “
Isn’t he the one who worried Guam would capsize if we stationed more troops there?
Doesn’t jeremiah wright live in an almost all white upscale ‘gated community’ in a gazillion dollar mansion his mostly black ‘parishioners’ bought him to protect him from them?
Why, yes. He does.
Obama has no more loyal voters than blacks with 90% approval.
Obama will parlay this into a strategy to get blacks to the polls in 2012.
Hankie
+ Freddie
+ Jackson Lee
+ Conmanyers
=
Collective IQs < 100.
Ding, ding. You win the prize.
The Dem maneuvering is quite calculated to formant animosity leading to more generalized violence. IMO, one goal is to mobilize black turnout in November. It may also be thought that this will also mobilize white guilt to the polls. The Dems are getting concerned the white guilt vote that was so important in 08 won't be in their court to the extent they need it.
This is exactly what the Dems should not be doing.
This will just result in a huge backlash, especially now that all of Trayvon’s “protesters” are looting Walgreens and such. The Democrat party are proving definitively that the Democrat party is the party of racial division, and WE need to call them on that.
Remember Rodney King? Tawana Brawley? Crystal Mangum? The Dems will make up a narrative to fit their view of a horrific racist world in which no one is treated fairly while in reality the majority of American from every color will help out any other American, regardless of color.
It pains me to see America portrayed in such a way. I want the America I grew up in back and I want it now.
Their knee jerk reaction will come back to bit them in their collective arses.
They are using this as a distraction so people don’t pay attention to the supremes ripping apart Obamacare.
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