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To: TomGuy

I have never understood this tea and skittles thing. where did that come from? His parents or rather father and friend saying that was where he was going.

I haven’t heard that he had any tea and skittles with him.

Also ... I’m not as up on street and drug slang as I should be ... is it true that tea and skittles are code name for drugs?

The media has been exposed once again, but don’t get your hopes up (as Rush would warn). They won’t change and they don’t care.

NBC edited the 911 call to indicate that Zimmerman brought up race when he did not. the operator asked him race and he wasn’t even sure but said he thought ‘black.’

This is an all out effort to distract from the issues and from Obamanation.


54 posted on 04/01/2012 7:20:28 AM PDT by altura
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To: altura
-- I have never understood this tea and skittles thing. where did that come from? --

From what I've been able to gather, the Sanford police chief (now stepped aside) told a Miami Herald reporter that Trayvon had a bag of skittles, a can of Arizona iced tea, and 34 cents on him at the scene. The Miami Herald did not attribute this information to the chief, it just reported it.

Martin family lawyer, Benjamin Crump, pumped up the "skittles and iced tea" meme.

There is no reliable source evidence.

57 posted on 04/01/2012 7:25:07 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: altura

Tea and Skittles is also drug culture talk for marijuana and pills.

I just found that out on a blog this morning.


59 posted on 04/01/2012 7:27:55 AM PDT by Miss Marple
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To: altura
-- This is an all out effort to distract from the issues and from Obamanation. --

I think the incident serves multiple purposes, and agree that what you say is one of them.

The issue is also being used to stoke racial division, distract from crime by blacks, enrage the black community, give an excuse to falsely claim "stand your ground" is in play (and to blame), and disarm the honest part of the public.

60 posted on 04/01/2012 7:28:34 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: altura; rodguy911
Also ... I’m not as up on street and drug slang as I should be ... is it true that tea and skittles are code name for drugs?

I am about as clueless on such lingo as Arthur Clarson of WKRP was when he sprinkled the 'foot powder' in shoe. After he found out what is was, he screamed that he had a monkey on his foot. [One of the funniest scenes ever. I still LOL when I recall it. ... but I digress ...]

rodguy911's post #46 to me was the first I ever heard of skittles and tea being code words.


79 posted on 04/01/2012 7:59:59 AM PDT by TomGuy
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