Posted on 08/25/2013 7:48:40 AM PDT by tobyhill
The Trayvon Martin verdict showed “questionable judgment” on the part of Florida’s judicial system, Colin Powell said in an interview airing Sunday.
The former secretary of state and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said the acquittal of George Zimmerman, the white Florida man who shot and killed Martin, an unarmed black teenager, won’t be something with much lasting impact on the nation’s politics.
“I think that it will be seen as a questionable judgment on the part of the judicial system down there, but I don't know if it will have staying power,” Powell said on CBS's "Face the Nation." “These cases come along, and they blaze across the midnight sky and then after a period of time, they're forgotten.”
Powell said he would like to see President Barack Obama express more passion about race relations in America.
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Powell being a good “race man”, I wonder if Jindal will lecture him?
says colin powell.....face DOWN somewhere in the Nation.....
We will never here the end of this????????
A lot more white people will buy guns and bear spray..
Black on white crime is now getting the attention of white america..
Colin Powell, race baiter and apparently great judicial system expert.
I watched the trial and Colin Powell has to be a GD racist liberal idiot to say this. He sure as hell didn’t bother to watch the trial.
Not much staying power?
Whistling past the graveyard.
I find Colin Powell to be questionable.
What more could he do?
Start beating old WW II veterans himself?
WHY does it ALWAYS come down to race?!
After 50 years of affirmative action, set asides, reparations in multiple forms, reverse discrimination in hiring and promotions, a saturated media where whites are always evil and blacks can do no wrong, inundation of rap and hip-hop, and an overwhelming preponderance of assaults and murders from a tiny percentage of the population, we STILL have black “leaders” proclaiming that society is overtly, horribly, and irretrievably racist.
Zimmerman was having his head bashed in by a black thug who attacked him. GZ defended himself successfully. What is so hard to understand about this?!
I am beginning to wonder if Powell has always been a fraud.
Yeah, me too.
Since they are already planning an exhibit in the Smithsonian for St. Skittles hoodie, don't be surprised when a monument is built for him next to MLK
Thank you, General Irrelevant.
“The Trayvon Martin verdict showed “questionable judgment””
Does he realize the Martin was not on trial?
was powell asked about his affair with a romanian diplomat?
it’s amazing how certain guys just skate by
Who’s title is this. Martin received justice but this is a Zimmerman verdict.
We are expected to believe that Z wouldn't have shot a white or hispanic beating his head against the concrete?
I wonder if Powell would have left Libby twisting in the wind had it been someone like Obama or Holder who was “responsible” for the leak that never was one.
Meanwhile, I still hold Bush responsbible for not having pulled the plug on that prosecution before it got off the ground.
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