Really? George Zimmerman, the Hispanic, is a stereotype?
Posted on 05/06/2012 12:18:53 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I don’t care about George Zimmerman’s MySpace page.
Granted, it was gratifying to read recently in The Miami Herald about his crude animus toward Mexicans (“soft ass wanna be thugs”) and his reference to a former girlfriend as an “ex-hoe.” Given the way white supremacists and other Zimmerman supporters have exaggerated and manufactured evidence to paint Zimmerman’s unarmed 17-year-old victim, Trayvon Martin, as a thug who somehow deserved shooting, this unflattering portrait offers the same satisfaction one feels any time the goose is basted with sauce that was prepared for the gander.
But ultimately, Zimmerman’s online profile is as irrelevant as Trayvon’s to any real understanding of the social dynamics that were at play the night the boy was shot to death. Worse, our fixation on this ephemera, the need on the one hand to make Trayvon some dark gangsta straight from Central Casting and on the other to find a Klan hood in the back of Zimmerman’s closet, suggests a shallow, even naïve, understanding of the role race seems to have played in this tragedy.
The pertinent fact is that Zimmerman found Trayvon suspicious because, as he told the 911 dispatcher, the boy was walking slowly and looking around. That might be the behavior of a boy who was turned around in an unfamiliar neighborhood. Or of a boy enjoying a cell phone conversation with a girl and not overly eager to return to where his sweet nothings might be overheard by his dad.
That no such alternate possibilities seem to have occurred to Zimmerman for even an instant suggests the degree to which we as a people have grown comfortable with the belief that black is crime and crime is black. Nor are African Americans immune to the effects of that invidious formulation....
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
A picture is worth a thousand words.
It is easy to see his viewpoint.
It’s dead wrong but it is his and the viewpoint of many who wish to riot.
Trayvon brutally attacked Zimmerman and deserved to be shot.
There is no justification for Trayvon’s actions.
End of story.
All to say; what are they watching for?
Pitts: Trayvon ‘killed by a stereotype'Uh .... Leonard. Ever watch the TV show First 48?? A lot of those 'stereotypes' sure be doing an awful lot of killings.
I'm actually surprised that program is still on TV. I thought for sure Al and Jesse would've been all over it by now. ["It's RACIST showing blacks murdering most of the people".]
“Zimmerman” = “white Jew” shoots black youth. Then they (press, activists, etc) couldn’t back down. Example- “white Hispanic”
Mr. Pitts can kiss my ass.
The MSM’s stereotypical narratives and templates foment strife where none exists, and in fact they have blood on their hands.
This kid got killed because he DIDN’T just go home....acted like a punk and unfortunately got killed
If Pitts weren’t black he’d have nothing to write about. He is obsessed with his color and the color of others – as any racist.
• Blacks commit more violent crime against whites than against blacks. Fortyfive percent of their victims are white, 43 percent are black, and 10 percent are Hispanic. When whites commit violent crime, only three percent of their victims are black.Gangs
• Blacks are an estimated 39 times more likely to commit a violent crime against a white than vice versa, and 136 times more likely to commit robbery.
• Blacks are 2.25 times more likely to commit officially-designated hate crimes against whites than vice versa.
• Only 10 percent of youth gang members are white.Incarceration
• Hispanics are 19 times more likely than whites to be members of youth gangs.
• Blacks are 15 times more likely, and Asians are nine times more likely.
• Between 1980 and 2003 the US incarceration rate more than tripled, from 139 to 482 per 100,000, and the number of prisoners increased from 320,000 to 1.39 million.
• Blacks are seven times more likely to be in prison than whites.
• Hispanics are three times more likely.
Wrong!His gun didn't cycle. The slide was unable to move back and cycle the nest round. This was due to the slide being held and kept from moving. This is not a jam.
I’m waiting for more information to come out. I suspect Trayvon was involved in earlier break-ins and his father knew it.
Why else would he call the police the next morning and ask if Trayvon had been arrested.
Really? George Zimmerman, the Hispanic, is a stereotype?
Leonard Pitts is a professional racist. He *has* to write about this- it’s only surprising if it’s taken him this long to get to it. Pitts doesn’t just filter everything through his “blackness”- he’s every bit the race pimp that Jackson and Sharpton are- he just prefers to keep a lower profile.
What’s in a name? In this case Leonard is the Pitts.
“But ultimately, Zimmerman’s online profile is as irrelevant as Trayvon’s “
THAT is what the ‘author’ was paid to WRITE. All the other words are just window dressing.
They must eliminate any consideration of Trayvon’s ‘online profile’.
Which would indicate Trayvon grabbed the gun by the top part (slide) , and likely pulled it toward himself, and while it was aimed at his chest.
Dumb move.
I would have gladly contributed to the birth control fund for Leonard Pitts, Sr and his wife.
My local paper used to run Leonard, but I think even the leftist editors were scared off by his racist stupidity. Leonard is a typical, race card playing, one-note thug with a room temperature IQ, who discovered an easy way to make a good living. He has a lot of company in his race, pandering to angry blacks and scared white liberals.
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