Posted on 08/01/2013 5:55:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
"Today... I'm proud to be an American.
Robert Zimmerman Jr., on Twitter, following his brother's acquittal
An ABC News-Washington Post poll reveals that a full two-thirds of white Americans believe that Trayvon Martins killing was justifiable. Therefore, that same two-thirds of white folks also believe that George Zimmerman's acquittal in the second degree murder trial against him was also justifiable.
Historian and activist Paul Street writes in BlackAgendaReport.com that these poll numbers reflect the separateness in perspective that reflects very real, savage, and profound, literal segregation of the races in America.
Thats a lot more than just the segment of the white population thats Republican or Tea Party. Theres a lot of Democrats in there, and that probably includes a whole bunch of liberals. This isnt just about cracker whites in the South.
Street is also author of The Empires New Clothes: Barack Obama and the Real World of Power.
As Street indicates, on the other hand, the same ABC-Washington Post poll shows that 86 percent of black Americans disagree with the jury's verdict. Blacks wholeheartedly support the bringing of federal civil rights violations charges against Zimmerman. Eighty-six percent.
Opinion
In any statistics course in any university, one of the first thing one learns is that polls represent only a snapshot of that particular sample's thinking at that particular time.
Not so in this case, however.
This poll highlights an ongoing and pervasive divide between the races as to the question of race. For example, this poll also shows that most white people do not believe that race played much of a role in the Zimmerman trial at all; while black people see race as the absolute and defining issue in the matter.
And, despite (or perhaps because of) President Obama's recent framing of the killing of Trayvon Martin and Zimmerman's acquittal as based in racial profiling, most white folks reject this characterization, while most black folks welcome it.
So, what's really going on?
Those white poll respondents who agree with the Zimmerman verdict have little or no personal experience grounded in oppression solely because of the color of their skins. It is just plainly, simply, damn near impossible for them to even imagine such a thing. They have gone through life believing experiencing the American Dream as a lived reality, something that is achievable if only they work hard enough, obey the law, and treat everybody right.
The black experience is a whole different kettle of fish, however. For black people in this nation-state, the color of their skins has always always being the singlemost defining characteristic that determined their social, political and economic outcomes vis-a-vis a white-dominated society. No amount of education, hard work, or honest dealing with others has ever changed this dynamic for the masses of black people.
Individuals, yes. Certain, select black individuals usually those who must disavow any relationship with blackness are allowed a modicum of success outside the black paradigm.
And so these poll results are not particularly surprising.
So black people must retrench and regroup. It goes without saying that this has not been a particularly good period for civil rights.
What we are witnessing is a long, slow old-style white backlash and white retrenchment into a new-style white supremacy. Many simply cannot accept or stand Obama's black presence in their White House. Overwhelming approval of the Zimmerman verdict is just one, therefore, among many ways and means of expressing that distasteful reality.
As the saying goes, It is what it is.
The Author
Re your post 53, in which you recount the unpleasant experiences you had in junior high and high school at the hands of black punks and mobs: I was so fortunate as to never have gone to junior high, high school (or college, for that matter) with such “gentlemen,” having grown up in the cracker South.
Eat your heart out.
Belief in the rule of Gumby!
Oh please, I have been profiled many times because of my "color". I have been BEATEN, repeatedly, by a family of "white boys" because of my ethnicity (couple of jerks). So those people can cry me a river....
I've experienced it, but I am not so narrow minded, so deluded, so full of hate, to allow it to cloud my judgement about this case, and agree wholeheartedly with the verdict.
I've noticed the same thing. White people used to kind of look around furtively and whisper, "Well, I'm not prejudiced or anything, but the guys who held me up at gunpoint, well, they were black. But I'm sure they're not all like that! Again, I'm not prejudiced!!!" Now whites are getting much more outspoken, much more fed up. I think they've simply been pushed too far.
Turns out that white people really dislike being robbed, raped and murdered. Who knew?
Young Black Men: 3% of the population. 50% of the murders.
Obama senior’s maternal grandfather really was a Hussein. That middle name Barry waves around like a magic talisman in the Muslim world he does have somewhat of a claim to. Unlike Elisabeth Warren (Fauxahontas) the fake Indian.
what probebly hurts liberals the most is that zimmerman was a obama supporting democrat.
BTW! i should note that from everything iv seen. HES ENTIRE family seems to be a democrat
bleeech....usual progressive drivel. All those who suffer from white guilt will no doubt genuflect at this alter
“new style white supremacy”
If a personal resolution to defend oneself from feral black thugs makes one a white Supremacist, I suspect I’m just one of over 80% of white people.
So he calls us ‘crackers’, ‘supremacists’ and other things. We can’t reply or we’re racists. Just don’t jump us and you may live another day, ‘professor’.
“Many simply cannot accept or stand Obama’s black presence in their White House.
I can’t stand the magic Negro and I’m of Asian descent!
FUBO the “white” Negro
My wife is a very polite person. But also very determined when she makes up her mind. She will let any person speak their piece, but when her mind is made up, her mind is made up. As soon as the witless young interviewee pulled out her cell phone, her job prospects were shot. As it should have been. If she had immediately turned off the phone and apologized, she maybe would have gotten a second chance. She compounded her stupidity by answering and gabbing for several minutes. Unbelievable.
I don’t appreciate Obama in the White House, not because of he’s black, but because he’s RED!
I’d love Walter E. Williams or Dr Thomas Sowell to replace him.
I’ve noticed this as well. I think the entire issue of crimes that are committed against whites by blacks and how it’s covered up in the mainstream. That doesn’t change the fact people know the reality of what they see and hear and experience. Whites know what Trayvon Martin was about, and for the news and race hustlers to try and lie about the reality of the situation is maddening. Whites are attacked and killed increasing by blacks yet one case of a person fighting back is an outrage? Please.
This "blackness" that is spoken of - is it a reference to inner-city thug culture perhaps? Methinks that is the case. That's only a recipe for success (such as it is) as a hip-hop performer, and not much else.
Polite to a fault, I’d say. You’re a lucky guy. As I’ve aged, I won’t suffer fools any more. I would have stood up, said “This interview is over. Thank you for your time.” and escorted her to the HR office.
When obama it was obvious that obama would win in 2008 my dentist said he asked an old black man client if he was excited about obama becoming president. The old man said “Hell, no. He ain’t as black as I am.”
Look, this is an important political issue. It’s not minor and it’s not going away. The democrat party is the party of angry blacks, white liberal elites, and illegals. The rest of American is waking up to that reality...
IOW, those that choose to be human beings and be judged by their achievements and behavior.
This is the fatal sickness in the negro culture. Act anyway but ghetto and you are ostracized and rejected.
They willingly condemn themselves to underclass existence. They are virtually demanding apartheid. They have no interest in America, only in the ghetto.
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