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Posted on 07/22/2013 7:59:47 AM PDT by Hojczyk
So what are we to make of this astonishingly low attendance after non-stop coverage on cable news and elsewhere, as if this trial were the only serious issue confronting our country?
Could it be that the citizenry, including African-Americans, supposedly so greatly injured, have seen through the media hype (what I earlier called media pornography) and themselves realize this case is simply an accidental, anomalous one-off and not that big of a deal?
I certainly hope so, because what we have been going through is a form of national nervous breakdown, taking us rapidly backwards on race relations, something that has improved consistently in our country over the last fifty years.
What we do not need now is a “national conversation on race.” That’s like taking a scab that’s slowly healing and, just when it’s about to whither away, scratching it as hard as possible until the wound comes back.
We have strong civil rights laws. We have an even stronger national consensus against racism. Racist behavior is a huge social taboo, as it should be.
Now we should just leave it alone— let the scab heal. Morgan Freeman said this best in a famous interview with Mike Wallace on 60 Minutes back in 2006. (Unfortunately, the great actor rescinded this later. But I prefer to believe in this more sophisticated, calmer Morgan.)
Here’s a transcript of the key parts of that exchange:
MIKE WALLACE, CBS`s “60 MINUTES”: Black History Month, you find…
MORGAN FREEMAN, ACTOR: Ridiculous.
WALLACE: Why?
FREEMAN: You`re going to relegate my history to a month?
WALLACE: Come on.
FREEMAN: What do you do with yours? Which month is White History Month? Come on, tell me.
WALLACE: I`m Jewish.
FREEMAN: OK. Which month is Jewish History Month?
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There are MANY, MANY very fine and talented actors who are as loopy as a fruit bat when it comes to their personal opinions.
What does it mean? It means the government is going to have to gin up another false crisis to distract the public in order to ram amnesty for illegal aliens down our throats. Despite their best efforts they let this crisis go to waste.
Simply put, this case didn’t live up to the hype for one reason. And it’s a glaring reason: Zimmerman is Hispanic. Done. Over. Kaput.
They mean that most people know what happened, a few people don't and are really just instigators and agitators..............
Val is still pimping race games.
I never thou of the and I think you are absolutely right.
I never thought of that. That is what I meant to write.
George wasn't "standing his ground". He was ON the ground; St. Skittles of PurpleDrank was trying to pound him into the ground. This was straight-up old-fashioned self defense.
I was thinking that air conditioning has made all the difference. In the race riots of the 60s, many of these people lived in tenements that did not have air conditioning. Now that almost everyone has air conditioning, it’s too hot to go out and protest or riot.
Wasn’t the week after the verdict kind of hot in much of the US? It was in the 90s here and very humid.
It could be that lots of more reasonable black people are not looking at this case as some sort of metaphor for race relations, law enforcement prejudice against blacks, etc. The media and the MSNBC crowd have decided that this case should be regarded at that symbolic statement of where we’re at as a country, but they chose a very poor case to make such a point.
It’s all over the internet that Trayvon was a gang banger in training. Even though the media is not reporting any of that, I think lots of people, blacks included, know that Trayvon was headed down that wrong road. And that it’s very likely that, as the jury concluded, that Trayvon started the fight which ended up in his death.
The media won’t report anything negative about Trayvon, but, thanks to alternative media, many people know the truth. And I would imagine that many decent black people don’t want to honor the memory of a thug and all this sort of stuff we’re hearing. They know that this is not a case of racism/bigotry/police mistreatment of minorities, or any of that.
That or they were lining up to purchase cigarettes and Colt 45 Tall boys with their EBT Cards at the local quick mart.
Just as the majority of blacks knew OJ was guilty, they also know what the real danger to young black men is, and it’s not the community watchman. However, in both cases, they are not going to air the dirty laundry.
Anyone who marries his step-granddaughter has no credibility, IMO.
Go bite yourself, Freeman.
First of all, I think many blacks understand the situation that Zimmerman was in and the motivation to protest just isn’t there. Secondly, due to 0bama’s repeated failures as President, the black community at large feels that whitey is getting a bit fed up with them!
All he is capable of doing is community organizing, or in other words rabble rouse. He is way above his abilities. The Peter Principle proved again.
Seriously, I don't think he understands he is the president for everyone. His job is to protect everyone. He serves everyone, not just those who may vote for him in the future. What a piece of garbage and a disgrace to other great people who preceded him.
I think people of all races are beginning to see the verdict was based on facts. Just like the protesters in the Tawana Brawley and Duke LaCross team fiascos, those who overreacted are now going to quietly slither away rather than offer any healing public apology.
You are 100% correct! The low attendance is simply proof that lots of black people and other libs are on Twitter and Facebook. It’s a lot easier to just change your profile pic to black than to actually attend a protest.
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