Posted on 07/16/2013 10:47:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
“Southern trees bear a strange fruit Blood on the vines and blood at the root Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze Strange fruit hanging from the poplar tree
Pastoral scene of the gallant south The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh Then the sudden smell of burning flesh”
“Strange Fruit” by Abel Meeropol / Billie Holiday
*I was quite dismayed by the George Zimmerman acquittal.
It’s almost as if nothing has changed in the 5 years since Obama was elected, in the last 50 years since the Voting Rights Act was passed, or even over the last 150 years since the Emancipation Proclamation.
Martin family attorney Benjamin Crump compared Trayvon to a couple of civil rights martyrs, Medgar Evers and Emmett Till. But he might have been better served highlighting the parallels between his client’s case and that of Dred Scott.
Scott was an escaped slave who had settled in a free state before being captured and re-enslaved by a bounty hunter ironically named John Sanford. Scott subsequently sued his new master in state and then federal court, losing both times on technical interpretations of the law, despite the fairly obvious fact that he had established his residency in Illinois, a state which prohibited slavery.
With the help of abolitionists, he took the matter all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, reasonably expecting to prevail on appeal. Meanwhile, the publicity stirred up by the controversy divided the country to the point that President Buchanan got involved, pressuring the court to affirm the earlier rulings.
Sure enough, on March 6, 1857, Chief Justice Taney handed down his landmark decision, relying on the Constitution itself to declare blacks “beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations,” going so far as saying African-Americans were “so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.”
And exactly how did America get out from under such a patently racist interpretation of the supposedly sacrosanct Constitution? On January 1st, 1863, Abraham Lincoln singlehandedly ended slavery by executive decree via the Emancipation Proclamation. He didn’t ask Congress to pass a law or wait for permission from a bi-partisan team of rivals, but he simply outlawed the evil institution and conferred full-citizenship upon former slaves.
Today, President Obama has no more loyal a constituency than African-Americans. The black community‘s psychic pain as a consequence of the Zimmerman verdict is palpable because the facts leading up to the avoidable tragedy are so easy to establish.
17 year-old Trayvon Martin was talking on the phone while walking home from a convenience store after purchasing Skittles and iced tea when he suddenly found himself being stalked by a scary stranger who had profiled him as a perpetrator. The whole world, by now, has heard the phone call on which Zimmerman was clearly ordered by the police operator to stay in his car.
Yet, he ignored those instructions, and a couple of minutes later, Trayvon lay dead from a bullet to the heart. His inconsolable parents patiently waited for the criminal justice system to work, but a jury let Zimmerman off scot-free, despite overwhelming evidence that he was the aggressor.
Is there really any doubt about who had to defend himself? Or that the outcome would’ve been the opposite if a black man with a gun had tailed and then killed a white kid under similar circumstances? Thanks to the proliferation of “Stand Your Ground” laws, America is in danger of turning back into a country where no black person has any civil rights which any armed white racist vigilante feels bound to respect.
Therefore, my fervent prayer is that President Obama will soon summon up the gumption to rise to the occasion and use his executive powers to rectify the situation, including the miscarriage of justice in the Zimmerman case. Otherwise, a sense of being relegated to second-class citizenship might deleteriously affect the hearts and minds of an impressionable generation of black youngsters in a way unlikely ever to be undone.
This is your moment, Mr. President. And the world is watching.
President Lincoln did no such thing. I'm surprised that a law school, hell, even a college graduate, would say that he did.
Blatant lie.
The problem has been the focus on irrelevant arguments – some of which are actually unsupported by the evidence.
1. ‘GZ racially profiled TM’ There is no evidence of this.
2. ‘GZ disobeyed an order by the police’ * The civilian dispatcher, Sean Noffke, testified that he did not give GZ an order and, in fact, he, like his fellow dispatchers, are trained not make comments that sound like commands. * Noffke also testified under cross that, as a result of his asking GZ which way TM was going, GZ could have reasonably interpreted this as being asked to follow Martin. * It is also not a crime in Florida to disregard a comment made by a civilian dispatcher.
3. ‘GZ got out of his car’ Not a crime on public property and not negligent either.
4. ‘GZ followed TM’ Again, anyone can follow anyone on a public street unless the followee has obtained a restraining order against the follower and even there, the RS only places time, place, and manner restrictions on the person enjoined.
5. ‘GZ wasn’t really injured’ * Under Florida’s self-defense laws, one doesn’t have to be injured AT ALL to use deadly force * No one is required to refrain from defending himself while another is engaged in or attempting to commit a felony.
6. ‘TM is dead through no fault of his own’ * If you believe that TM assaulted GZ, then he IS dead as a result of his own actions.
7. ‘GZ could have left’ * Under Florida law, there is not a duty to withdraw rather than use deadly force * TM was straddling GZ so how the latter was supposed to leave the scene is unanswered.
8. ‘GZ was armed and TM wasn’t’ * One’s fists can be considered weapons and can result in severe bodily harm or death.
* GZ was legally carrying a weapon * There is no requirement under the law that the same weapon be used by the assailant * A homeowner can kill an intruder whether or not he has been threatened * Those that attack cannot feign surprise if they are met with superior firepower.
9. ‘Stand Your Ground!’ * SYG is NOT at issue in this trial. * The defense is a classic self-defense case.
10. ‘Black men NEVER get to use SYG!’ * Wrong http://tinyurl.com/nboht35
11. ‘GZ is a man and TM was a boy!’ * As if ‘boys’ don’t commit murder, rape, and assault everyday in this country.
You’re right and furthermore, this crap has gotten way too far out of line and too damn tiresome.
ENOUGH.
It did not apply to Union states that still allowed slavery.
Had it done that, then the Confederacy would likely have won.
How would you like that, "Kam"?
Thanks to the proliferation of “Stand Your Ground” laws, America is in danger of turning back into a country where no black person has any civil rights which any armed white racist vigilante feels bound to respect.
Oh. I guess I didn't know black people are still prohibited by Jim Crow laws from keeping and bearing arms.
Those people do not deal in facts.
Zimmerman had a broken nose and bruises to his face, and lacerations and bruises on the back of his head.
Zimmerman also had grass stains on his back and the back of his legs.
Martin, OTOH, had grass stains on his knees, and had only two injuries. Scraped knuckles, and the single bullet wound that killed him.
It is clear what happened. And so it is time that we removed this lie:
And replaced it with the truth:
But with the race baiting, hate America, get "whitey," crowd, the truth of what happened does not matter. Advancing their goal of "fundamentally changing" America is all that matters.
One thing...for once, Obama actually got it right. Now that we know so much more about Trayvon, it is true...if Obama had a boy, hhe would have been just like Trayvon.
Ya know what pisses me off?
My town was a part of the underground rail way.
No one in my family ever had a slave.
But my entire life I have to pay and pay and pay, because of my skin color.
The law is blind, or at least it should be blind.
That serves the least amongst us.
It is not mob justice but egalitarianism.
I have been on the wrong side of the law and unjustly so.
Do blacks really imagine they are the only people to ever suffer injustice?
I expect these idiots will grasp the overplaying of their hand.
Black Law, you know. It’s a whole other constitution. Whitey to camps.
Pardon me. WILL NOT GRASP the overplaying of their hand
So why do they try to say Zimmerman was at fault when it was Martin who really had the chance to avoid a confrontation - "run away"?
Martin did not have to confront Zimmerman the way he did. He could have asked why Zimmerman was following him and after being told that he was the Neighborhood Watchman just checking things out, Martin could have ID'd himself and been on his way home (with his "Skittles").
But no, Martin had to initiate a violent confrontation, probably such as what he is used to in his environment (and that does not necessarily mean "black"!).
Liberals are always harping on how kids turn bad due to the environment they're brought up in. Well, here was a perfect chance for them to step up to the plate and put their words to action. But what did they do? They chose to play the race card.
Martin is dead because he wanted to play the tough guy, maybe even thought he had to, such as it is in today's society.
It feels that way.
The majority of Americans would be shocked to sit down and examine 1855 America. The vast number of residents in Alabama....probably over 90 percent...did not own slaves. To convince the public over the past one hundred years that all of those Alabama residents got into the Civil War....because they wanted to right to own slaves....is totally bogus. There is a total lack of understanding of American life and how things really developed.
Who the Eff is calling for a good old fashioned Lynching?
Liberals, that’s who.
Now: Remember who made the Klan? Who was the one and only Grand Kleagle senator?
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