Posted on 07/16/2013 9:53:40 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I don’t like what George Zimmerman did, and I hate that Trayvon Martin is dead. But I also can understand why Zimmerman was suspicious and why he thought Martin was wearing a uniform we all recognize. I don’t know whether Zimmerman is a racist. But I’m tired of politicians and others who have donned hoodies in solidarity with Martin and who essentially suggest that, for recognizing the reality of urban crime in the United States, I am a racist. The hoodie blinds them as much as it did Zimmerman.
One of those who quickly donned a hoodie was Christine Quinn, the speaker of the New York City Council. Quinn was hardly a lonesome panderer. Lesser politicians joined her and, as she did, pronounced Zimmerman a criminal. “What George Zimmerman did was wrong, was a crime,” Quinn said before knowing all of the facts and before the jury uncooperatively found otherwise. She was half-right. What Zimmerman did was wrong. It was not, by verdict of his peers, a crime.
Where is the politician who will own up to the painful complexity of the problem and acknowledge the widespread fear of crime committed by young black males? This does not mean that raw racism has disappeared, and some judgments are not the product of invidious stereotyping. It does mean, though, that the public knows young black males commit a disproportionate amount of crime. In New York City, blacks make up a quarter of the population, yet they represent 78 percent of all shooting suspects — almost all of them young men. We know them from the nightly news......
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I’ve noticed that Cohen, on a few recent occasions, has shown slight signs of maturity. I doubt he’ll ever become a fully-reasoning adult given his peer environment, but any progress should be recognized.
I mostly agreed with him. It is certainly progress.
“In New York City, blacks make up a quarter of the population, yet they represent 78 percent of all shooting suspects”
I;m sure that stat is probably pretty accurate in most large “urban” cities.
If one is cautious at the sight of a member of the family Theridiidae due to the inclusion of the genus Latrodectus, does that mean one is profiling?
Then I am guilty.
He will be crucified for this.
It was F&B for him. Then he had to ruin it at the very end.
A black man in a black hood is no different from a white man in a white hood. The intent of both is hiding one’s identity for the purpose of racial intimidation.
He’s better at pretending he was following the case than most in the MSM. He makes it through two full sentences before revealing that he is just repeating post-verdict talking points by saying “I don’t know whether Zimmerman is a racist”.
He has that part right.
They are surely the product of slavery, the subsequent Jim Crow era and the tenacious persistence of racism.
No, the problems are much newer than slavery and Jim Crow. Think 'great society' and 'war on poverty' - the destruction of the black family.
Family. Simple concept, under assault today from so many sides. All of them 'progressive', and all of them wrong.
The hoodie helped GZ properly profile TM.
TM's subsequent actions confirmed the profile.
Justice administered on the scene.
The end.
What Zimmerman did was not wrong.
He was neighborhood watch Captain. It was his responsibility to keep an eye on things and that meant keeping an eye on Trayvon in this instance. Zimmerman was within his rights to be in the neighborhood and to be watching Trayvonm, and to have a gun for his personal protection.
Neither was Zimmerman wrong to shoot Trayvon. A bigger man than Zimmerman was on top of him, had already broken his nose, had slammed his head against the concrete. Zimmerman shot in self defense and that was not wrong. The alternative may well have been dying himself and letting Trayvon loose to go on and commit more burglaries and violent crime on others.
A majority of people don't realize YET the fact that they are “The Man”, so these two groups need to constantly paint OTHERS as targets, lest public ire turn on them.
I completely agree with your assessment!
I understand that Cohen is an incurable libtard, but what makes him think that GZ set off in quest of heroism?
Sound more to me that he set off to protect his neighborhood against a mysterious young punk wandering around in the rain and peering in windows.
Why is it that GZ is somehow ascribing motives to St. Martin (whose race he did not even know at the time) based on following someone acting suspiciously, but that Cohen has a clear view into GZ's motivation from four states away?
So close yet so far. What Zimmerman did was unfortunate, but not wrong - and as we have learned, not illegal. And it had nothing to do with any “uniform”. It did have to do with behavior and for that one need look no further than trayvon (and perhaps his parents who failed him so miserably) who 1. brought attention and suspicion upon himself by his behavior, 2. aggressively responded to the fact that someone was observing him, and 3. assaulted someone merely for looking at him.
Trayvon was the author of his own demise.
With perfect hindsight, Zimmerman might have chosen to stay in the car to possibly avoid an attack by Trayvon. But Zimmerman was within his rights to get out. He had as much right to be outside in the neighborhood as Trayvon.
With perfect hindsight, Zimmerman might have chosen to stay in the car to possibly avoid an attack by Trayvon. But Zimmerman was within his rights to get out. He had as much right to be outside in the neighborhood as Trayvon.
Where did the information on the ‘Free Zimmerman’ sticker come from? I didn’t see it in the article. Are there other reports on this shooting?
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