Jesse Jackson's Odd Complaint: Trayvon Martin Denied Jury of His Peers

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[RedElement]

Trayvon was accorded all the power and force of government. The entire investigational and prosecutorial weight of the state was behind Trayvon.

GH was the accused, facing the power and weight of the state. He was accorded a jury of his peers. They were the last bulwark between him and the state.

[servantboy777]

>>joint??<<

You can pick one up in da hood dog.

[a fool in paradise]

17 year olds can serve on a jury?

How many prior convictions should they have to be considered his peers?

[broken_arrow1]

The Constitution requires, via the Sixth Amendment, that “the accused shall enjoy a right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury” where the crime was committed. There is no constitutional requirement that the jury shall be made up of the defendant’s “peers.”

[Vinnie]

Is JJ the constitutional scholar that taught El Douche Presidente everything he knows?

[Vinnie]

Is JJ the constitutional scholar that taught El Douche Presidente everything he knows?

[WakeUpAndVote]

In that case, why were there no Hispanics on the Jury?

[BunnySlippers]

I’m glad you see eye to eye with Jesse’s illiterate chants.

When the time comes, I can make my own decisions. Lord knows the GOP has eaten its own for years. And you are part of the problem IMO.

[EBH]

Trayvon wasn’t on trial Jesse.

[conservative_cyclist]

In a sense they did try a dead person......TM history and record, Self Defense tells us the TM was in the wrong. Prayers for this nation and a road to healing for what we have become, so sad..

[DoughtyOne]

A clearly shaken NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous...

He referenced another killing of a black youth that many have compared to the Trayvon Martin slaying, the 1955 killing of 14-year-old Emmett Till, who was killed in Mississippi for allegedly flirting with a white woman.

It boggles the mind to see the muddled thinking on display regarding the Zimmerman/Martin incident.

Here NAACP Justice compares Martin's predicament to that of Emmett Till. Till is described as being killed for flirting with a white woman. How is Trayvon imagined to be the victim of that level of racism? How is appearing to be casing homes for potential vandalism later the same as merely flirting with a white woman?

Why is Martin getting this type of support? Is it okay to sneak around behind homes in the middle of the night, apparently checking them out. Think about this. How long does it take to traverse through a housing tract like this? If you're bookin' it, it wouldn't take you more than a few minutes. Here we seem to have a guy loitering around behind or in between homes, checking them out. He isn't bookin' it. He's taking his sweet time. Why? Isn't it rather obvious he was not just walking back home?
 
Zimmerman observes, makes a phone call, leaves his vehicle, checks out the address, heads back to his car, all the while Martin is still not headed back to his Dad's home.

Something was up here. Zimmerman was on to something. It seem obvious that he was.

Is it now a civil right to case potential crime scenes? I doubt that. So what is going on here is racism on display. Martin was black. That's where the story line ends for the race baiting set. It's where the story line ends for those who condemn Zimmerman.

The black woman in the video at the LINK stated she would have probably voted Zimmerman not-guilty too, based on what was presented to the jury.  None the less she thinks justice was not served here.  This truly made sense to her.  She evidently saw no racism in her take on things.  The black kid was dead.  It had to be racism.  This evidently came from her very core beliefs.

Racism was and still is a problem in America. At one time some whites were prejudiced against blacks. Most of that has diminished. What has taken it's place, is the polar opposite. Now it's some blacks who are prejudiced against whites.

If Martin were the victim of racism, I would defend him. This was not racism on display. It was a young man seemingly up to no good on display. The real crime on display here, is that some blacks can't objectively look at this and realize Martin was at fault. He wasn't simply walking back to his dad's place. He wasn't approached and hassled by Zimmerman. He wasn't placed in a bad situation by a racist. Martin was the problem. He wound up beating a man up, breaking his nose and pounding his head into the cement.

How do you judge a young kid like this to be the victim? He was perpetrating a serious crime.

What we see here, are people for whom race trumps everything else. There is no guilt, if you're black. If you're black you can do anything to anyone, and it's justified. You can pound someone's head into the cement if you like. You are justified. You can pummel their face if you like. You are justified. If someone objects, and fights back, they are not justified. If they can't physically defend themselves and use a gun, they are the problem, the black man isn't.

This is pure racism. Is this what Martin Luther King fought for?

We have a community that is racist. We have a broader group of people in America who are racist. We have a Justice Department head who is a racist. We have a president who is a racist.

Welcome to the ultimate end game of white guilt.

We have a massive amount of self-examination needed in this nation. This time, it does not involve whites.

At some point in time, the criminal must be assessed for being who he is regardless of race. I am sorry that a 17 year old kid is dead today. I don't care what his race was. I care that he made poor choices and paid the ultimate price for it. Although I am sorry he is dead, I recognize the part he played in it. He started a chain of events, that he couldn't back down from, he didn't back down from, and ultimately it cost him his life.

Somewhere in the fabric of this kid's life, it was instilled in him that he could do no wrong. His skin was black, and he was justified in anything he could imagine to do.

There is a sickness in the land...

[ronnie raygun]

Hey hows your son that got away with embezzlement claiming he was bipolar, nice! It sounded like the OJ chase

[X-spurt]

So we can safely assume JEB is yo man....... How GOPe RINOish is that?????

[tatown]

Having watched JJ over the years, I truly believe that we are witnessing Darwinism in reverse. Every year his IQ seems to drop a few points.

[BunnySlippers]

Look at my response. I can make up my own mind when the time comes.

In the meantime, thread was about the idiocy of Jackson.

[Tanniker Smith]

Caught that on twitchy, but I didn’t comment as I don’t have an id there.

[X-spurt]

Then you were the hijacker of the thread posting his long cold “stay out da bushes” comment, totally unconnected to the thread.

[GOPJ]

Jesse’s a poverty pimp. If black rage isn’t constantly ginned up he’s out of a job - and corrupt city dems are out of shakedown cash.

[LibLieSlayer]

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you are now reading between the lines ;-)
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[LibLieSlayer]

““Stay out da bushes!”.”

THAT was one of the few coherent thoughts that jesse jackson has ever had.