Posted on 06/30/2013 4:15:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Everything about the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin trial is awful. Everything. First and foremost we saw the horrific pictures of a dead Trayvon Martin. The news media cameras turned to Trayvon’s parents as they showed them, hoping to catch their grief. I see Trayvon’s mother look away, and my heart breaks into a million pieces for her. I have a 16 year old son. I imagine for a moment it’s him, and I close my eyes with all the anguish I feel in just imagining it. Even if you feel Zimmerman should be acquitted, don’t forget the grief of these parents.
I’m following it, watching it live, trying to look at it objectively, the way a juror might. I follow along with twitter. Twitter seems to bring out the worst in humanity when it comes to race, on both sides. Trust me, if you are following this trial, don’t follow it on twitter.
Why do we feel a need in this society to tear apart people who are involved in a story? We know how everyone came down on Rachel, the friend of Trayvon who was on the phone with him that night. She was not the most articulate witness. God, I hope she didn’t put her name in the search engine of twitter. And believe me, it was bad stuff from both black and white people. Then there was a picture of the daughter of Zimmerman’s attorney eating ice cream with her Dad celebrating his work that day. Not the best idea, but does that justify photoshopping her hashtags with racial slurs to make her look bad? Because people were retweeting it, and thinking she wrote that. Then there were those trolling her friend’s pictures on Instagram looking for something to embarrass her with.....
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.chron.com ...
There’s a Facebook thing “like” if you think he should be found not guilty.
Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
Are you talking about the parents financially exploiting their son's death or some other parents.
That wasa a quote from the article man!
Very good article about who ‘really’ killed Trayvon Martin-—http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2013/06/30/absolute-power-insufferable-corruption-and-threats-to-stop-sunlight/
Words escape me. Well except for what I typed here.
I am so upset right now.
This is off topic, but forgive me. The thread was “pulled for review”, so I cannot post there. Some of you might have read it before it was pulled, I hope.
My son, who posted the thread, was “zotted”, and I have no idea why. A few posters were calling him a “blog-pimp” - and he isn’t.
Can anyone explain?
Yeah...his papa the Crips gangland veteran is grieving the loss of his most promising jewel thief. And his mother who had kicked his drug-dealing, thieving ass out of her house, is grieving with $1 million BLACKmailed out of Zimmerman's condo association, though they had ZERO liability for her son getting what was coming to him.
Not without getting zotted.
ROTFLMAO!
Thanks for the humor. At least I hope it was humor.
Check your freeper mail.
Thanx == got it
Check yours
Maybe he can't read italics.
I agree, not for the author’s reasons.
You nailed it.
I would grieve for the parents if they were caring parents.
They are clearly not.
Maybe he can host a cooking show after this is all over...
In Peru?
And LESS in our wallets!
WHY do we CONTINUE to allow it?
Are we so STUPID not to realize you get MORE of what you SUBSIDIZE???
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