If you disagree w/ Alice Walker about the Z verdict, you’re probably a shapeshifting alien

The Daily Caller ^ | July 23, 2013 | Jim Treacher

[2ndDivisionVet]

Her words, not mine.

Alice Walker is the author of The Color Purple, The Color Purple, The Color Purple, and probably some other books. She also has some really awesome ideas about science.

But first things first. Last week, Walker wrote about her deliberately factless, emotion-based reaction to the George Zimmerman verdict. It was on the Guardian‘s “Comment Is Free” blog, because of course it was:

"I deliberately watched none of the Zimmerman trial, just as I have deliberately not read a draft of a new book by Jen Marlowe and others, soon to be published: I Am Troy Davis, about a young black man in Georgia who was, by all indications, innocent of any crime – but was put to death recently by the state. News of these deaths, of Troy, of Trayvon, is so painful that I protect myself in this way…

Just heard the Zimmerman verdict. It makes me think of the man given the “pleasure” of assassinating Che Guevara. He was young, and it was his birthday. He was strutting and proud to be offered this “work”, as Che stood bleeding, weakened and alone, before him.

Fast forward to recently, when the assassin became old and ill and needed surgery – and Cuban doctors (who loved Che Guevara) did their best to heal him.

The ache of realization, of what he has done, when it comes for Zimmerman, will be all the punishment he will ever deserve."(continued)

[ransomnote]

I never knew Alice Walker had a daughter. Thanks for posting. I searched the web and found an article about how Alice treated her daughter. Her daughter Rebecca writes:

“I was 16 when I found a now-famous poem she wrote comparing me to various calamities that struck and impeded the lives of other women writers. Virginia Woolf was mentally ill and the Brontes died prematurely. My mother had me - a ‘delightful distraction’, but a calamity nevertheless. I found that a huge shock and very upsetting.”

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1021293/How-mothers-fanatical-feminist-views-tore-apart-daughter-The-Color-Purple-author.html#ixzz2Zwj9whBn

[Berlin_Freeper]

Have you noticed when you visit the zoo it’s more interesting to look at the people rather than the animals?

[FreedomStar3028]

In Zimmermans shoes, or Che’s assassin shoes I would have done it and not lost a wink of sleep.

Some people just need killin.

[cyn]

Great info on Rebecca Walker; thanks for posting.