Posted on 04/21/2012 5:19:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Statistics show a deep divide in opinions along racial lines regarding the killing of a black Florida teenager, Trayvon Martin, by George Zimmerman, who is of mixed ethnicity, white and Hispanic.
Zimmerman has claimed self-defense, invoking the Sunshine State’s “Stand Your Ground” law which has also come under intense scrutiny in the wake of the incident.
Reuters news service reported last week, 91% of blacks believe Martin was unjustly killed, while only 35% of whites concurred. Hispanics were in between at 59% according to polling numbers Reuters gathered by querying nearly 2,000 Americans.
The disparity of views over Martin’s death is even less ambiguous than another racially charged case, the O.J. Simpson murder trial.
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Significantly nonexistent afterwards was rioting, looting and burning of businesses, or attacks on hapless victims. After all, a black man had received justice, so-called.
Not so when the jury in the trial of police officers involved in the beating of defiant motorist Rodney King in Los Angeles failed to elicit the verdicts minorities were clamoring for.
In the days following that trial, blacks and Hispanics took to the streets of the L.A. basin killing, burning, rampaging, and robbing, feeling “they” had been denied justice...
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This whole episode wasn't about Zimmerman's guilt, "Justice for Trayvon", or any of that nonsense.
The Point for the Ubama Administration was to stir up a Racial incident because You never want a serious crisis to go to waste, that is where you can grasp the most power in the least amount of time.
Precisely !
When the riots and mayhem start and blacks are killing whites justifying their evil by the Treyvon case, I’m going hunting for certain media, because it is they who are responsible for this evil mischaracterization in the Martin shooting and it is they who must be eliminated before we can get the Republic back. The media are setting this country up in serrvice to their affirmative action lying fraud who can only remain in power if the rule of law breaks completely down, and the media are creating that very atmosphere. I hate them for their treachery.
There’ll be a lot more shrubs/trees than just The Tree of Liberty getting “watered”, if that crap happens.
The logic behind Obama’s push on this is simple. Whites need to be reminded that they’re all racist at heart, and therefore need another four years with him as president to try and correct all our wrongs.
“No Justice No Peace” isn’t a intoned desire for justice. It is a THREAT.
They do the crime, they do the time, we ship em back home!
Pretty much the same outcome as Urban Renewal.
The trial of Zimmerman will be dragged out until just days before the presidential election and the riots will ensue as a result of the innocent ruling for the accused.
This will keep the young, miniorites and women engaged with the rhetoric that will be spewing out of the mouths of the obama propagandists.
The riots may be so extensive Obama will “Have” to decalare matial law prior to the election. All this is so obvious with the way things have played out. Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, the president commenting, the crazy sterotypical black women politicians saying outragious things, the media focusing relentlessly on this—it all points to a soft conspiracy to make more of the case than it is.
Personally, I just wish Trayvon would have been white—then no one would have heard about any of this story.
The obama regime was waiting and ready to pounce on any situation like this to exploit and they are.
Never let a crisis (or a made up one) go to waste: Eric Holder
Just think of all the shovel-ready jobs this will create.
This prediction is a surprise?
IMO riots are preferable to further pandering and capitulation.
Honestly, at this point, I’d have trouble convicting Zimmerman regardless of how guilty the evidence made him. Because it has been made abundantly clear that blackmail is in the air & he better be convicted to avoid riots. Give in to blackmail like this and our society is doomed.
When an ultimatum like this is made, Zimmerman’s relative guilt or innocence becomes secondary to the longer term consequences of giving in to the blackmail. Sad, but true.
If Zimmerman is found guilty I will burn my house down and shoot my neighbor.
The more racist and angry the left gets, the less “white guilt” will bind those in the middle, who voted for Obama to assuage their own feelings of ambivalence about race.
The color of their skin IOU has now been paid in full.
Now it’s important for America to vote the communist out, before he destroys the greatest nation in history.
Enough with the guilt complex.
America. Not Kenya!!
Please.
Doesn't matter. It would have been someone else. They have been waiting for this opportunity. This week, next week, a month from now; it was going to happen.
Zimmerman is toast.
It’s a lie that “Hispanics and blacks” rioted in LA over the verdict. Blacks did the race rage and rioting and maybe some Hispanic theives benefited in robbery.
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