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The George Zimmerman trial is the worst fear of every black family
The Guardian ^ | July 7, 2013 | David Dennis

Posted on 07/07/2013 5:13:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The Trayvon Martin case has been nothing short of heartbreak from the very beginning. Regardless of what anyone believes about Trayvon's past, his innocence or George Zimmerman's, the fact remains that a teenager is dead. I honestly didn't think I would get emotionally broken up more than I was over the story that Rachel Jeantel's friendship with Martin stemmed from the fact he was one of the only people who never picked on her. The story painted such a tragic picture of friendship and two people whose lives will never be the same.

Then came this week's testimonies and reactions from Trayvon Martin's parents to leave me – and so much of America – floored. On Friday morning, Sybrina Fulton took the stand to talk about her son. As part of her testimony she had to identify her child's screams in his finals seconds of life. Later in the day, Tracy Martin had to sit in court as the medical examiner, Dr Bao, explained how Trayvon died in severe pain and was alive for minutes after getting shot in the chest.

Essentially, Friday – almost as much as the day Trayvon was shot – was any parent's nightmare. Trayvon's parents had to come face to face with their son's murder while Fulton got questioned over whether or not her son actually deserved to get killed. Tracy had to sit in the same room as the man who shot his son in the chest, unable to retaliate or let the rage he has to be feeling out.

Yes, this is the worst imaginable day for a parent. But it's one the parents of an African-American child has been conditioned to accept as a possibility....

David Dennis

(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; US: Florida; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: crime; daviddennis; democrats; florida; georgezimmerman; goodriddance; mediabias; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; thugs; trayvon; trayvonmartin; trayvonstroops; unitedkingdom; zimmerman
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To: wmfights

lol are you kidding? That is horrifying, and it’s not a starting point by any means, it’s the end result of a welfare state.


121 posted on 07/08/2013 2:35:43 AM PDT by snarkytart
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To: rlmorel

Winner.


122 posted on 07/08/2013 2:39:37 AM PDT by Hoodat (BENGHAZI - 4 KILLED, 2 MIA)
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To: RegulatorCountry
His grieving parents were nowhere to be found for days, his body unclaimed for longer than that.

Where did you read that? I thought the report was that the dad was contacted at 8:00 a.m. the following morning ......

123 posted on 07/08/2013 3:01:13 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (I ain't no cracker, I'm a white a$$ soda biscuit...)
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To: Gluteus Maximus

Right. See my post at #63...


124 posted on 07/08/2013 3:24:23 AM PDT by rlmorel (Silence: The New Hate Speech)
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To: absalom01

Well, it IS the Guardian. Their leanings are quite well known. Think of it as equivalent to The New York Times, The Boston Globe and The LA Times.


125 posted on 07/08/2013 3:27:29 AM PDT by rlmorel (Silence: The New Hate Speech)
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To: Hoodat

Thanks, Hoodat. I just got up this morning and re-read it, I was pretty hot after reading that piece of crap liberal article.


126 posted on 07/08/2013 3:29:38 AM PDT by rlmorel (Silence: The New Hate Speech)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Apparently the author does not understand the meaning of the word “murder”. Trayvon Martin was not murdered, he was killed by a “creepy assed cracker” exercising lawful self-defense (regardless of what 12 nitwits in Flur-id-dah think). Which explains why the left hates the Second Amendment. Absent the IInd, bullies and thugs will rule America.


127 posted on 07/08/2013 3:47:39 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Doing the same thing and expecting different results is called software engineering.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So. To be nice to sensitive black families an innocent man has to go to jail.

Sorry. I’m not that nice.


128 posted on 07/08/2013 3:55:46 AM PDT by Cyclops08
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To: SaraJohnson

Sara, it used to be said that God created man, and Sam Colt made them equal.

Without that equality Zimmerman would be dead, and not Trayvon.

Of course the pistol was not a Colt, but the reference is still legitimate.


129 posted on 07/08/2013 4:04:20 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: irish_links
indeed, a nightmare: not a deep pocket to sue in sight.

His mother (who he hasn't seen in 16 years) got a million dollars already from the HOA.

130 posted on 07/08/2013 4:36:56 AM PDT by gitmo ( If your theology doesn't become your biography it's useless.)
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To: jeffc

A better question would be, does the Guardian care?


131 posted on 07/08/2013 5:16:05 AM PDT by sport
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To: detective

“The violent, criminal thug as victim is one of the most common liberal false narratives.”
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Absolutely, some of the people who have contributed the most to this country in the past have grown up in circumstances that would make Trayvon Martin look like the “fortunate son”. They didn’t sell drugs or steal, they worked like few people can even conceive of in this age.

There are probably not a half dozen young people in this country who have any concept of how hard I worked as a boy and my father constantly told me how much easier I had it compared to his youth and guess what? I believe my father was telling the truth! I can clearly recall seeing him come in from the fields when I was a small boy and pull off his shirt and hang it on the back of a straight chair. It would literally stiffen up as if starched and turn white from the salt from his sweat as it dried. I have seen him tie a black and white plow horse under a shade tree to rest because the horse looked white all over from salt. He said the horse needed rest but he didn’t because he was just walking, the horse was pulling a plow.


132 posted on 07/08/2013 6:56:31 AM PDT by RipSawyer (I was born on Earth, what planet is this?)
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To: lepton
Rates of incarceration for children of black two-parent families are a little worse than for whites....but only by a few percentage points.

I thought this had to be the case. It's the breakdown of the family unit and the secularization of our society that's driving the crime rates.

133 posted on 07/08/2013 10:14:49 AM PDT by wmfights
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To: Steve_Seattle

You’re right on this issue Steve...


134 posted on 07/08/2013 11:06:05 AM PDT by GOPJ (In the kingdom of the blind, the one eyed man is a dangerous extremist.. Greenfield)
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To: Jeff Chandler
Even kids from good families can be sucked into popular culture. The black couple next door had two boys. The older son became a doctor. The younger son became a felon.

Are you saying that white kids don't become felons and can't be sucked into popular culture?

Or did I misunderstand your comment.
135 posted on 07/08/2013 11:50:51 AM PDT by ForAmerica (Texas Conservative Christian *born again believer in Jesus Christ* Black Man!)
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To: ForAmerica
Are you saying that white kids don't become felons and can't be sucked into popular culture?

No, I'm saying that no matter how hard a parent works to raise good children, those children can be swayed by the culture. Race has nothing to do with it.

136 posted on 07/08/2013 11:56:10 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Harriet Meiers is looking pretty good right about now.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
A very short time ago in my city (population 300,000) there was a crime that really opened my eyes to violent intolerance.

In the early evening there were two women holding hands walking with a young man. All three were white. They were approached by two young black men who started calling the women by demeaning names, accusing them of being lesbians. The man walking with the women told the two black men to mind their own business and go away. One of the black men pulled out a .45 and pistol whipped the white man to the ground and then threatened to shoot all three of them. The women started screaming and the two black men ran away. All this happened in broad daylight.

The two black men are still at large.

There was not a single word in our local newspaper about it. I read about the crime on the city Police website.

I am not a supporter of homosexuality, but if two women want to holds hands it is a free country last time I checked. This kind of thing sickens me. It is meaningless intolerance, violence, and thuggery.

137 posted on 07/08/2013 2:38:46 PM PDT by Gabrial (The nightmare will continue as long as the nightmare is in the Whitehouse)
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