Barack Obama, Trayvon Martin, and the Presidency

Vogue ^ | December 22, 2016 | Monica Potts

[2ndDivisionVet]

On March 23, 2012, President Barack Obama gave a press conference in the Rose Garden. A little less than a month before, George Zimmerman, a self-appointed neighborhood watchman, had shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin after a violent encounter prosecutors said was instigated by Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida. Local police had released Zimmerman after five hours of questioning, saying there was not enough evidence to refute his claim of self-defense.

It was an obviously incomplete investigation, and the Martin family was demanding justice. In the weeks that had passed, journalists, especially Trymaine Lee then at The Huffington Post and Ta-Nehisi Coates at The Atlantic, had focused national attention on the case. Protests sprouted up around the country. The Department of Justice had begun to investigate the case, which was moved from the Sanford police to Florida state officials just a few days before Obama stepped into the Rose Garden to speak, squinting into the sun.

There had been pressure on Obama to say something, but the last time he’d commented explicitly on an event that revealed the racism inherent in our criminal justice system—the arrest of the Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., outside his own home on suspicion of attempting to break in—the uproar had been loud, partisan, and damaging, leading to the spectacle of the Beer Summit.

“I think every parent in America should be able to understand why it is absolutely imperative that we investigate every aspect of this,” Obama told reporters that day....

[ForYourChildren]

Zimmerman Case: How CNN Disgraced Itself More Than Any Other Outlet

http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2013/07/25/how-cnn-disgraced-itself-more-than-any-other-news-outlet/amp/

[suthener]

This whole article is lie, from start to finish. I threw up in mouth a little by the fourth paragraph. That was as far as I could get.

[Bringbackthedraft]

OMG, its going to be like the Rosenberg case, you’ll be hearing it for the rest of your lives.

[M1911A1]

In a sane world, the writer and publisher of this leftist hogwash would leave town tarred, feathered and perched on a rail. Peddling this sort of mental poison is at least as bad as drug dealing when it isn’t clearly labelled as advocacy.

Modern journalism is nothing more than the art of coming as close as possible to libel and slander in pursuit of the progressive agenda. If you can twist facts to keep the victim mentality and racial divide going strong, you might get a Pulitzer.

[trebb]

...encounter prosecutors said was instigated by Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida. Which said prosecutors were later unable to prove because the evidence said they were wrong.....

Had to fix that statement - pure revisionism...

[Gay State Conservative]

Obama's son should have realized that bringing a length of concrete sidewalk to a gunfight isn't a good idea.

[Oil Object Insp]

I am in awe. I have a similar version, not nearly so eloquent, nor complete (I will humbly use the bit re: 13. Surrouding one self with IWSB, adjusted peers to help guard ones’ self) I began typing and have been adding to for the last fifteen years. The jury is still out how well it has been soaking in, sometimes I think I’m just taken for a radical Tho. Paine type

[dynachrome]

I sent it to a friend whose son got mugged at gunpoint in downtown Denver, Colorado late last year. In that area it is the mexican/salvador/ etc. gangs. Principles remain the same, though. Doubt it did any good. kid is very lib still.