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The Whole System Failed Trayvon Martin [gag alert]
New York Times ^ | July 15, 2013 | Charles Blow

Posted on 07/16/2013 10:57:44 AM PDT by Enchante

The system failed him when everyone in the courtroom raised racial bias in roundabout ways, but almost never directly — for example, when the defense held up a picture of a shirtless Martin and told the jurors that this was the person Zimmerman encountered the night he shot him. But in fact it was not the way Zimmerman had seen Martin. Consciously or subconsciously, the defense played on an old racial trope: asking the all-female jury — mostly white — to fear the image of the glistening black buck, as Zimmerman had.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: crime; florida; justice; liberalism; liberals; media; mentaldisorder; nytimes; racism; sharpton; trayvon; zimmerman
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This ludicrous op-Ed is posted mainly for the humor, but it is also a serious matter that so many can see the case through such racist lenses of the grievance mongering left.
1 posted on 07/16/2013 10:57:44 AM PDT by Enchante
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To: Enchante

Charles blows ... Big Time!


2 posted on 07/16/2013 10:59:33 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Enchante

The writer manages to ignore or distort every relevant fact, while barraging the reader with a laundry list of idiocies.

This kind of article shows how badly the self-appointed “elites” are doing....


3 posted on 07/16/2013 10:59:55 AM PDT by Enchante
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“a glistening black buck”

Heavens to Murgatroyd! Exit, stage left.


4 posted on 07/16/2013 11:00:45 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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Short version: Urban Trayvons have a right to play Knockout King on any fay cracka they catch alone at night.


5 posted on 07/16/2013 11:00:59 AM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" is more than an Army Ranger credo it's the character of America.)
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The whole system was stacked against GZ but this is what I would expect a stupid, token affirmative action Jackson to say.

Follow the Leader, Charles. One day you might get an original, nonracist thought in your ‘brain”


6 posted on 07/16/2013 11:01:02 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (NOT Guilty . . . the ONLY conclusion)
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To: TigersEye

That seems to be the message, doesn’t it?


7 posted on 07/16/2013 11:02:11 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Enchante

It appears that Trayvon is the one who failed . . .


8 posted on 07/16/2013 11:02:37 AM PDT by ßuddaßudd (>> F U B O << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
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What is this, a description for “Mandingo” ?


9 posted on 07/16/2013 11:02:40 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: Enchante

A good system is carefully designed to fail “thugs” and help good people.


10 posted on 07/16/2013 11:02:56 AM PDT by Sopater (Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? - Matthew 20:15a)
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to fear the image of the glistening black buck

That's a phrase I haven't heard before!

11 posted on 07/16/2013 11:03:17 AM PDT by PGR88
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These folks are idiots who a. don’t know the law here in the USA.
b. Couldn’t decipher right from wrong if their lives depended upon it.

The only person who PROFILED was Martin.
The only person who BROKE THE LAW was Martin with his assault and battery of Zimmerman.


12 posted on 07/16/2013 11:03:58 AM PDT by joethedrummer
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To: tumblindice

A beautiful sight
We’re happy tonight,
Walking in a lefty wonderland


13 posted on 07/16/2013 11:04:03 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: Enchante

Charles Blow (NYT black homosexual token) was one of the first people to jump on the Trayvon bandwagon.


14 posted on 07/16/2013 11:04:11 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Hey Slimes, Martin committed felony assault and battery. You loony Blow.


15 posted on 07/16/2013 11:04:15 AM PDT by Red Steel
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Thugvon Martin was the failure. A loser in every sense of the world. A trainwreck otherwise waiting to happen. GZ did society a favor once Thugvon gave him the opening.


16 posted on 07/16/2013 11:05:44 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (NOT Guilty . . . the ONLY conclusion)
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Assault and battery on, according to what Jabba the Witness said in her interview,

someone he thought was a “cop or security guard”.


17 posted on 07/16/2013 11:06:07 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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The Left's stock-in-trade, from the Jacobins on, has always been The Blame & Envy Game.

The whole system did not fail Trayvon Martin, only those who having the responsibility to do so, never advised him as to the possible consequences both moral & practical in starting an altercation with a stranger, by sucker-punching him in the night. There is some failure in that, all must acknowledge.

William Flax

18 posted on 07/16/2013 11:06:38 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So Blow was posting his homo-ephebophilic fantasies with the “glistening buck” stuff.


19 posted on 07/16/2013 11:06:38 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

That crazy woman on ‘Designing Women’ comes to mind:
“Black man! Black man!”
And they call us crackers. The left is imploding.


20 posted on 07/16/2013 11:06:52 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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