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Trayvon Martin and Black Manhood On Trial (Relying on Rachel's testimony? Huh?)
The Nation ^ | July 2, 2013 | Mychal Denzel Smith

Posted on 07/02/2013 11:34:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: USS Alaska

No cursive in the courtroom either, you betcha!
That kinda talk is not allowed.


41 posted on 07/03/2013 5:44:05 AM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

6 jurist??? not 12?? I must have slept, when did this change???


42 posted on 07/03/2013 6:47:10 AM PDT by kimtom (USA ; Freedom is not Free)
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To: onyx

Now THAT’S funny.


43 posted on 07/03/2013 6:51:49 AM PDT by Lee'sGhost (Johnny Rico picked the wrong girl!)
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To: Lee'sGhost

LOL.
Yep. Looks just like her.


44 posted on 07/03/2013 6:58:57 AM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: onyx

I have never heard “wet grass”, is it a new band?


45 posted on 07/03/2013 7:15:30 AM PDT by razorback-bert (I'm in shape. Round is a shape isn't it?)
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LOL. I reckon.


46 posted on 07/03/2013 7:16:03 AM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
...Trayvon came out of either the bushes, or the darkness, and said something to the effect of, “What’s your problem, homie?” to which Zimmerman responded, “I don’t have a problem.”

Had Z been looking for trouble, been the "aggressor", his firearm would not have remained holstered as he replied to St. Trayvon, and certainly not when "you have a problem now" was uttered.

47 posted on 07/03/2013 7:20:38 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Black manhood” is not on trial.

Aggressive, violent, thuggery is.


48 posted on 07/03/2013 7:22:30 AM PDT by Vision (Political Correctness is unAmerican)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The author is an idiot:

Because it’s clear that, whoever instigated the altercation, Zimmerman followed Trayvon that night. He was instructed not to, but he did anyway.

This is a lie by exaggeration. Zimmerman was told he "didn't need to" follow, but was not "instructed not to" follow Martin.

That Zimmerman fumbled for an answer when the lead investigator asked whether he thought Trayvon was afraid of him is emblematic of the way society has trained us to think about black manhood.

When Zimmerman was asked to read the mind of Martin, he took the time to think through the situation and come to a conclusion. Zimmerman was asked to identify the mindset of another person - a task for which he would be deemed unable to do in a court of law. But his hesitation - his thoughtfulness - is interpreted by the author to be stereotypically racist.

The rest of the sentence is "emblematic" of a race hustler trying to convince anyone - perhaps even himself - that the hesitation was racially motivated. Apparently the author is a psychic, who can leap to tall stereotypes of his own in a single thought.

49 posted on 07/03/2013 7:31:09 AM PDT by MortMan (Disarming the sheep only emboldens the wolves.)
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To: Vision
“Black manhood” is not on trial.

Correct. Black manhood is Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell, Herman Cain, Walter E. Williams and the black middle class working guy down the street who pays his mortgage and taxes and demands that his kids get educated and act civilized.

50 posted on 07/03/2013 7:33:38 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: COBOL2Java

I stand corrected.


51 posted on 07/03/2013 11:22:17 AM PDT by Liz
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To: kimtom

Florida law only provides 12 jurors in a capital case. Mr. Zimmerman is on trial for 2nd degree murder, not 1st degree murder.


52 posted on 07/03/2013 12:12:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's next run. What'll you do?)
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To: onyx

lol. about sums it up. But Shrek was eloquent.


53 posted on 07/05/2013 3:34:08 PM PDT by SueRae (It isn't over. In God We Trust.)
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