Why did CNN scroll "facts" opposite what happened?
Just like always, follow the beds and money.
Posted on 06/28/2013 9:48:30 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
According to FBI statistics, approximately 9,000 African Americans are killed in this country each year.
This horrible carnage is basically ignored by the news media, which treats the vast majority of these cases as non-stories. This is a major tragedy which is consistently ignored by a media that often highlights the deaths of American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. While all of these deaths are tragic, it is much more dangerous for African Americans on the streets of our country than it is for our soldiers fighting in Iraq or Afghanistan.
To add some perspective to the numbers, about 6,588 Americans have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001, but 108,000 African Americans have been killed on the streets of America. Thus, the death toll for black citizens in the U.S. is 18 times greater than it has been for our soldiers fighting overseas.
This African American death rate is shockingly high and should be thoroughly analyzed by the media. Unfortunately, most of our journalists are not fair and balanced. Sadly, too many in the media today are looking for sensational stories and one sure fire method of creating controversy and attention is to stoke fears of racial injustice.
Enter George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, who shot and killed 17 year old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida in February of last year. The media has focused on this one incident, even though approximately 12,000 African Americans have been killed throughout the country in this same time period. The other cases were mostly overlooked because they involved “black on black” crime. FBI statistics show that approximately 93% of African American homicide victims are killed by other African Americans. Such crimes are not juicy or interesting to a media that wants to promote racial division and cause strife in this country.
Clearly, the media focused on the Trayvon Martin case because of the race factor. Trayvon Martin was black and George Zimmerman is Hispanic, although, initially, the media erroneously referred to the neighborhood watch volunteer as “White.” After civil rights leaders and politicians joined the fray, it was no surprise that Zimmerman was charged with second degree murder.
Zimmerman became the poster child for racism, even though his best friend is an African America. The media depicted Martin as a very young child and presented inaccurate pictures to viewers. Martin was not a young child targeted by a “racist” Zimmerman. In fact, he was a tall, muscular young man who had a questionable past and multiple brushes with the law, but all of this was hidden from Americans.
If Zimmerman was a black neighborhood watch volunteer or Martin had been a white or Hispanic youngster, this story would have been ignored by a media that has no interest in the vast majority of the 9,000 African American murders each year.
As a sensational trial moves forward, the country will learn whether George Zimmerman is guilty or not. We will also learn whether Martin was an innocent youngster trying to get to his father’s house or a troubled young man looking for a fight.
The jury has already heard from a “star” witness who has lied, used questionable language and admitted she did not know how to read “cursive.” This young lady said that Martin referred to George Zimmerman as a “creepy ass cracker.” It seems that the racist in this case may have been Martin and not Zimmerman.
Police photos show that Zimmerman was badly beaten by Martin in the scuffle. He had a bloody face and cuts on the back of his head, images that are consistent with the testimony of a neighbor who said that Martin was on top of Zimmerman as they were fighting on that fateful night. Since he was younger and more athletic, it is logical to assume that Martin was able to get the upper hand in his fight with Zimmerman.
If Martin jumped Zimmerman as the neighborhood watch veteran was heading back to his car, he could have inflicted quite a beating. Zimmerman may have felt his life was in danger and justified in shooting Martin. Florida has laws which allow residents to “stand your ground” and defend themselves with deadly force.
Now, the country is hearing reports of potential race riots if Zimmerman is acquitted. Civil unrest could spread throughout the country. Will threats of potential violence influence a jury that is only supposed to consider facts presented in the case?
Who knows what the jury will eventually decide, but it is tragic that so much is at stake in this one case. If there are riots, much of the blame for such violence will rest with our news media which created such racial unease with their coverage of this case.
Let’s hope and pray that sanity prevails both in the courtroom and throughout the nation.
The crap you mention is the reason there is a trial...
DEMOCRAT MAYORS AND GOVERNORS WILL SOLVE THIS!
Can they afford enough gasoline to pour on the flames?
Thank you. Am about to head in to bed, but will definitely see what I can find out tomorrow from the live thread.
Night all, and may God bless.
Tatt
How in the world does a guy beat on someone WHILE he is shooting him?
There were no male Hispanic jurors either. Isn’t a defendant supposed to be judged by a jury of his peers?
And a trial is promoted that pits a black against a white-hispanic.... oh wait, this is a black against a black-hispanic... did they make a mistake?
Legal hurdles for GZ. If GZ following TM provoked a fight between GZ and TM which resulted in GZ forced to use his gun to save his life, he can still be guilty of manslaughter. Freepers need to keep this in mind no matter how bad TM is and how good GZ is. Why is the law very tough? The law does not want to encourage armed hotheads looking to provoke a fight, which the hothead can use his gun if he is losing and claim self defense when the cops arrive. GZ entered that legal no man’s land when he followed TM after the 911 operator told him it was not necessary. The DA witness despite her performance has established that TM was getting agitated by GZ following and monitoring him. The only way GZ can get out of this legal jam is prove he backed away when TM turned and challenged him for following him. The DA witness cannot testify that the fight began immediately after the call stopped. GZ claimed he retreated back to his SUV when TM attacked. If he can prove that he is off the hook, otherwise the shooting is a result of him following TM and provoking a violent reaction by TM. The jury is going have to decide if silently following someone is a provocation, and they may ask the judge for legal guidance on this point.
Don’t Talk To Police
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
The reason the news media ignores violent crimes against blacks is because they don’t want to make a big deal about blacks committing those crimes. Let a creepy ass cracker kill some black people, and it will be all over the news. By the next day there will be media pundits and experts on all the shows talking about it. Turn that around, and it will be hushed up before it’s out.
Well said! I hope We the People can all embrace that principle and unify around it. Hopefully, focusing on such powerful truth will effectively transcend the divisiveness that many seek to sow.
I know that this trial is hard to take for many among us who believe it is a Travesty of Justice, but hopefully proponents on both sides will learn valuable wisdom from the eventual outcome, both legally and socially.
One of our common enemy's most effective strategies is to divide and conquer. All peaceable Americans, regardless of ethnicity or culture, must assiduously avoid falling into this trap of allowing ourselves to be pitted against each other along racial battle lines. It's a tactic of misdirection by those who would enslave us. And too often, it works all too well.
The CNN scroll isn’t really counter to the testimony. It’s either a typo or a misunderstaning of the testimony.
The testimony at that point wasn’t about skin color, it was about what the two were wearing. It should have read that the lighter CLOTHED person was on top, which would have been accurate.
Still something CNN should acknowlege, correct and apologize for.
That’s why I’m glad that live about 15 miles outside a city core, and the two direct routes to where I live involve two chokepoint bridges across a small river. It’s more like 20-30 miles via the indirect route.
Apparently we’re going to be given a 2 hour warning prior to the verdict. Plenty of time for me to una&& from work for the day (my office IS in the city core) claiming a bad headache or somesuch and get out of the burn zone.
It will be a mistrial, no doubt.
That is why this will all end in a mistrial.
One line if testimony was lighter skinned person was on the ground, darker skinned person on top.
Why did CNN scroll "facts" opposite what happened?
Just like always, follow the beds and money.
I heard and watched Good testify. The statement in the bar at the bottom of the screen is not what he said. Good said the light guy was on the bottom being punched by the dark guy.
It’s a good thing that the jury is sequestered with all the media misinformation.
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