Unlearned Lessons and the George Zimmerman Trial

NOTE: As of this writing the jury was deliberating and cable news networks were “filling time with wild speculation from media ordained experts” who know as much about what’s happening in the jury room as a coin-toss. The jury could come in at any time between hitting “send” noon on Saturday and this going live at midnight Sunday.

Can I just say something controversial that must be said? I don’t care about the George Zimmerman trial. I don’t, not even a little. That’s not to say I don’t feel sorry for those involved who’ve lost a loved one, I do. One family lost a child to a gun, the other lost a child to a mob. One is in eternal rest far too soon, the other will never know rest in all his remaining days. But that doesn’t mean I should care about it, nor should you.

Sympathize away, but being invested emotionally while not being a friend or family member of anyone involved is irrational and dangerous.

But an emotional investment is exactly what every news outlet in the country wants you to have. There’s money in it and it fits their progressive agenda.

From the first moment the MSNBC prime-time clown car metaphorically emptied into Sanford, Florida, an agenda was set in motion to manipulate as many people as possible into believing things that were not true. But they weren’t alone.

While progressives tried to paint a picture of racism to fit their needed narrative of an America where the Klan roam the streets and hold public office (as Democrats, a part of their past they always conveniently omit), many conservatives attempted to prove that there is no circumstance under which George Zimmerman shares at least a slice of the blame pie.

The progressive case goes something like this: Trayvon Martin, a black 17 year old, went to the store to buy candy and a drink. On his way home, this black teenager, was racially profiled by a “white” ~~Hispanic~~ guy, who followed him with the intention of killing him for being black. He provoked Trayvon into punching him in the nose and banging his head on the sidewalk so he could shoot him. Diabolical. Oh, and did I mention Trayvon Martin is black?

The conservatives who care present a case probably closer to the truth, but no less speculative. A generally good guy was looking out for his neighborhood and saw someone he didn’t recognize walking in an odd place. With the neighborhood having suffered its fair share of crime, he called the police and, trying to be extra helpful, set out on foot to follow a guy walking home. Trayvon decided to confront the “creepy-ass cracker” stalking him by jumping out of the bushes and punching him in the face. Zimmerman, completely overpowered and fearing for his life, shot Martin in self-defense.

The truth is somewhere in the middle and nowhere as clear-cut. There were dozens of opportunities for this not to happen, Zimmerman could’ve not gotten out of his car, Martin could have not decked him, etc. But they did. Someone’s dislike of these facts doesn’t make them any less so.

So we’re left with a dead kid and a man on trial. This happens all the time in the world, but it doesn’t get this much attention.

Over the 4th of July weekend, the city of Chicago had 74 people shot, 12 died. One of the shooting victims was a 5-year-old boy. There’s no ambiguity about that. What was that child’s name? What are any of their names? You don’t know because not only were the suspected shooters black, so were the victims. In the progressive media equation of what constitutes news, black on black crime – a tragic epidemic by any normal unit of measure – doesn’t rate.

To the progressive media, who set the narrative tone, a busty blonde being involved in a crime, either as victim or perp, trumps everything else. After that, it’s black victim with a white perpetrator. The list beyond that fades into insignificance until you reach “I don’t know what you’re talking about” level. Under that, tied with “putting your fingers in your ears and shouting ‘lalalala, I’m not listening’ is black on black crime.

You’d think a “civil rights leader” like MSNBC’s Al Sharpton would care since it’s what he claims to care about, but you’d be wrong. There’s not nearly as much camera time and money in scores of bleeding bodies on Chicago’s south side as there is when the perpetrator is white.

Aside from the rank hypocrisy of silence on an ongoing issue of life and death, the Zimmerman trial offered another opportunity for progressives to express distracting outrage to avoid an important issue.

Trayvon Martin’s girlfriend, Rachel Jeantel, a 19-year-old high school senior, testified in the case and was mocked for not being able to read cursive handwriting. Progressives were outraged anyone would mock this woman who has obviously gone through Hell. But imagine the good that could come out of her testimony had the progressive media been half as angry at a union dominated public education system that churns out 19-year-olds who can’t read cursive as they were at people who found it odd. Opportunity lost because it didn’t fit the narrative.

The George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin case is a tragedy, but it’s not unique or special, it’s simply one that can be exploited. Progressives need people to believe America is a horribly and hopelessly racist nation to justify bigger government and more thought crimes.

If Zimmerman walks or is found guilty, life will continue. That you know about this case in the first place is a testament to just how powerfully manipulative the progressive media is. That you can’t name one person shot in Chicago over a 3-day weekend from a list of 74, or that people aren’t protesting outside of Rachel Jeantel’s school chanting “malpractice,” shows just how effective the corrupt progressive media is.

There are lessons to be learned from everything in life, that’s especially true in the Zimmerman trial. Unfortunately, the progressive media will learn only how to manipulate even better the next time because actually talking about and solving problems for which they’ve appointed themselves champions would put them out of business.

The owners and managers of the MSM have a mission of instigating a great divide in the USA that brings them profits and eyeballs, and provides rhetoric that their political cronies use. Their mission is a divided United States.

Once upon a time the media exposed political and corporate corruption and provided exposes. Now they incite the people instead of informing.

Unfortunately, the Black Community and the celebs have always believed that it was Zimmerman who started the fight and not Trayvon.

I gather this from MANY websites that I reviewed last night before going to sleep.

The key piece is who started the fight.

Their argument goes like this:

Zimmerman stalked Trayvon. We only have zimmermans word about who started the physical altercation. If Zimmerman was trying to physically restrain or intimidate Trayvon then Trayvon was actually defending himself not randomly attacking Zimmerman.

So, from a Black point of view... If I confront somebody who’s been following me, with a gun, when I’m walking down the street with my Skittles, then I am *not* randomly attacking that person. I’m trying to defend myself against someone who is menacing me with a deadly weapon. ...

I wish he’d stop calling ‘em “progressives” and stick to the old epithet “liberal”, or better yet, “Leftists”.

A rose by any other name . . .

Being followed doesn’t give a person the right to attack someone, TM had no idea GZ had a gun. He only realized this when he had him on the ground and tried to take the gun from GZ, at which point TM was “Zimmered”

I totally disagree with the author’s premise. It IS an important case, because it is another example of a person almost being railroaded by the mainstream media and the race pimps into being found guilty of a crime he did not commit, and the trial was made into a race war which cannot stand.

Whitey (that’s creepy assed crackers for the uninformed) must hang up the white guilt and fight back against such black racists (that’s right, black racists) or else it will be the tyranny of the minority over the majority. So yes, this is an example of what should have been a small regional case that should never have been totally blown out of proportion; nevertheless it was, by evil race hustlers and a sensation addicted media.

This cannot stand in a constitutional Republic based on the rule of law, or else we will end up with a dictatorship based on the rule of mobs. Stand your ground, Whitey, stand your ground.

Liberals only care about 3 types of people being killed.

Cute little white kids: so they can try to ban guns.

Blacks, gays ect. (regardless of reasons why it happened): Because they want to stir up violence and mistrust between groups so they can exploit it politically.

The unborn: Only because they really like when they are killed so they can get the votes of dingbat females that don’t see them as human.

Can I just say something controversial that must be said? I don’t care about the George Zimmerman trial. I don’t, not even a little.

And I don't care what this blowhard has to say about it. I stopped reading right there.

He doesn't care so much that he publishes an article about it? Give me a break.

RE: Being followed doesn’t give a person the right to attack someone,

Well, that’s precisely the point of division. Blacks claim that it was GZ who started the altercation. Most of us believe GZ when he said Trayvon started the fight.

We don’t have a tape of who started the incident. So we do not really know with absolute certainty.

To Blacks, they WILL NOT believe GZ.

But without a tape of the incident, there really is reasonable doubt. Hence, the jury decided rightly based on the law.

Why in the world if 1) you have a gun and 2) you want to kill someone, would you ever call the police and then start a fist fight with them?

Did the shooting occur closer to the house where TM was staying or to GZ’s vehicle? I believe it was the latter. Who followed whom?

Thanks Kaslin.

Over the 4th of July weekend, the city of Chicago had 74 people shot, 12 died. One of the shooting victims was a 5-year-old boy. There’s no ambiguity about that. What was that child’s name? What are any of their names? You don’t know because not only were the suspected shooters black, so were the victims.

Over the 4th of July weekend, the city of Chicago had 74 people shot, 12 died. One of the shooting victims was a 5-year-old boy. There’s no ambiguity about that. What was that child’s name? What are any of their names? You don’t know because not only were the suspected shooters black, so were the victims.

The MSM DOESN'T CARE about the murders of young black children.

The MSM doens't care about the grief of the victims mothers...

Poverty pimps don't care about the deaths of those black children or the anguish of their parents either. There's a reason why it's this way...

....Under that, tied with “putting your fingers in your ears and shouting ‘lalalala, I’m not listening’ is black on black crime. You’d think a “civil rights leader” like MSNBC’s Al Sharpton would care since it’s what he claims to care about, but you’d be wrong. There’s not nearly as much camera time and money in scores of bleeding bodies on Chicago’s south side as there is when the perpetrator is white. “I don’t know what you’re talking about” level. Under that, tied with “putting your fingers in your ears and shouting ‘lalalala, I’m not listening’ is black on black crime.

You’d think a “civil rights leader” like MSNBC’s Al Sharpton would care since it’s what he claims to care about, but you’d be wrong. There’s not nearly as much camera time and money in scores of bleeding bodies on Chicago’s south side as there is when the perpetrator is white.

Whoever Derek Hunter is - he's a comer... there's large parts of this he 'gets'... I pray he's not a liberal...

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