Posted on 05/06/2012 12:18:53 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I don’t care about George Zimmerman’s MySpace page.
Granted, it was gratifying to read recently in The Miami Herald about his crude animus toward Mexicans (“soft ass wanna be thugs”) and his reference to a former girlfriend as an “ex-hoe.” Given the way white supremacists and other Zimmerman supporters have exaggerated and manufactured evidence to paint Zimmerman’s unarmed 17-year-old victim, Trayvon Martin, as a thug who somehow deserved shooting, this unflattering portrait offers the same satisfaction one feels any time the goose is basted with sauce that was prepared for the gander.
But ultimately, Zimmerman’s online profile is as irrelevant as Trayvon’s to any real understanding of the social dynamics that were at play the night the boy was shot to death. Worse, our fixation on this ephemera, the need on the one hand to make Trayvon some dark gangsta straight from Central Casting and on the other to find a Klan hood in the back of Zimmerman’s closet, suggests a shallow, even naïve, understanding of the role race seems to have played in this tragedy.
The pertinent fact is that Zimmerman found Trayvon suspicious because, as he told the 911 dispatcher, the boy was walking slowly and looking around. That might be the behavior of a boy who was turned around in an unfamiliar neighborhood. Or of a boy enjoying a cell phone conversation with a girl and not overly eager to return to where his sweet nothings might be overheard by his dad.
That no such alternate possibilities seem to have occurred to Zimmerman for even an instant suggests the degree to which we as a people have grown comfortable with the belief that black is crime and crime is black. Nor are African Americans immune to the effects of that invidious formulation....
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
An eyewitness claims there was a brawl between T and Z that started when T jumped Z. Pitts does not even give that allegation the dignity of a mention, as if it were obvious it couldn’t be so. He fools only people who are not familiar with the story.
It's more than a cliche. It describes a very real prominent culture within African-Americans, and is limited to that population because it is a racist culture, insisting to identify their race with criminality.
The Trayvon death wasn't 'unfortunate'.
There was a time in a God-fearing and worshiping America when a person thought, then acted to try to physically assault with intent to murder was worthy of immediate capital punishment. Innocent bystanders would have been in many cases obliged to execute deadly force in the defense of the victim to halt a murder in progress.
Instead, criminals today perceive the judicial system as a mechanism to enforce the freedom of all people to behave criminally, instead of defending the freedom of those who respect legitimate authority.
Never were our rights identified to condone criminality. Those who refuse to discern between right and wrong, inheriting our governance of rights, are led to confuse the rights of the righteous with freedom to behave criminally.
And if he had, the dispatcher would have told him that the man following him was already on the phone with them reporting him for suspicious behavior. Then the dispatcher would have told him that the police were on the on the way, and to just wait for them.
Instead Martin decided to give Zimmerman a beat down, which ended up getting him shot.
Part of the problem is that by the very structure of the legal system, it is criminal cases that spawn the majority of appellate opinions supporting individual rights. There’s no way for Joe Blow on the street to bring a case and get an opinion issued as a victim or potential victim of crime.
Zimmerman’s comments about Mexicans and his ex-girlfriend were written SEVEN years ago, when he was 21.
America’s culture problem is Black Racism.
Then you must not know any white liberals. The black people that I know don't make that same assumption, but they are hard working Christians. I know a few liberals who insist that the very act of speaking out against street crime is racist.
Does that mean f*** off and die?
‘Boy’ is a white,racist word!
-Michael Evans,from ‘Good Times’
Face it, some people will not face reality - particularly if it doesn’t fit their agenda.
Pitts IS the ‘arm pit of commie media’. The following lies are typical of a ‘Pitts Piece’:
1. “Or of a boy enjoying a cell phone conversation with a girl and not overly eager to return to where his sweet nothings might be overheard by his dad.”
LibTard LIE! Daddy was away from the house, “couldn’t
have overheard” Trayvon.
2. “we as a people have grown comfortable with the belief that black is crime and crime is black. Nor are African Americans immune to the effects of that invidious formulation.”
Libtard Lies! Blacks are 39 times more likely to be
killed by a black than a white. Truth
isn’t “invidious”. Truth is just true.
3. “.. we — African Americans — still believe the garbage of innate criminality.”
Deliberate duplicity! Blacks are far more likely to be criminals, and the statistics are clear and unambiguous.
4. “maintaining a society that, in ways both overt and covert, still makes criminality a function of skin.”
Black BS! Pigmentation is predictive, not determinative.
Black individuals decide to become criminals.
5. “Trayvon Martin was killed by a stereotype.”
Black Lie! Trayvon died for pounding a man’s head into the sidewalk.
“You asked for it. You got it. Trayvon.”
My apologies to Toyota.
Yeah I would say it was a stereotypical bullet.
RE post #31, my apologies to all for the format error.
>>I would’ve done exactly the same thing. Actually no. According to the defensive firearms training I’ve had, in that situation you’re supposed to empty the magazine into someone attacking you at that range.
From the reports I’ve seen, the chamber in Jorge’s Kel-Tec was empty. It seems quite likely Trayvon had a hand on the pistol when it was fired, which prevented the action cycling to load a new round. Thus, in this case, what you propose wasn’t possible. Fortunately for Jorge, that one shot stopped the threat. This is not a high-probability event with a pistol round, so he got lucky there, else his brains might have been scrambled on the sidewalk.
excellant post....I am going to keep the “its so sweet”...” think I got a cavity” line.ha.
I keep thinking what if that was me..how would I react?
But we are in Alice in wonderland now..God help us.
Leonard Pitts Jr., the author of this piece.
Leonard Pitts Jr. wants us not to consider blacks as a group when crime is involved. Does he really think there are no cultural aspects to high black crime rates? Does he really want us to not consider blacks as a group when, say, Affirmative Action is the subject? I don't know his position on this, but I know where I'd place my bet, and it would be squarely on hypocrisy for Leonard.
Our local rag, The Buffalo News carries Pitts also and reinforces him with our own home grown version of Pitts, a fellow named Ron Watson. Sees everything, and I mean EVERYTHING through the prism of his “blackness”. Common sense and the ability to recognize simple facts are all filtered out as they go through that prism.
Oh, I don’t know. I assume he’ll have them wetting their panties over at the DUmp, Kos Kindergarten, ACORN, Moron.Org, SEIU and HuffandBlow.
Revolvers don’t jam, that is why they are my choice.
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