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Zimmerman's apology rings hollow because of human history (More idiocy)
The Examiner ^ | April 21, 2012 | John Guzzardo

Posted on 04/21/2012 10:32:36 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

George Zimmerman apologized to the family of Trayvon Martin in court a few days ago. The killing of a young African American male by a white male has raised not only questions about the “Stand Your Ground” laws in Florida, but also questions about race relations nationally. What Zimmerman felt in his heart is anyone’s guess; the apology seemed heartfelt.

Unfortunately, to many, it already rings hollow.

At issue here isn’t whether or not Zimmerman is really guilty or innocent, whether he had malicious intent or was defending himself against what he perceived as imminent danger to his own life. The issue remains the fact that Zimmerman is white, and Martin is black. While this shouldn’t be an issue, it is. Fortunately, the concept of “reasonable doubt” still holds true in a courtroom, but in the “real world,” reasonable doubt is tantamount to “he got off on a technicality.”

Yet, this brings up one huge double standard: that ethnic minorities need to be given a much lower threshold of reasonable doubt than Caucasians. While this may be true in some cases, the problem is that paints a very broad stroke with a very brittle brush. Ethnic minorities are viewed with suspicion for the simple fact they are just that: a minority. In every culture, no matter where you go, minorities are viewed as potential troublemakers. Take Germany in the 1930s: the Jewish minority were viewed as potential troublemakers – look where that went. France of today: Muslims are a minority, and they are viewed as troublemakers, even through the vast majority are peaceful. This has led to calls for harsh anti-immigration laws in that country....

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KEYWORDS: florida; georgezimmerman; lmm; trayvon; trayvonmartin; zimmerman
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Please show me the numerous concentration camps where whites are keeping their black enemies captive while stealing their gold teeth and killing them with poison gas. Instead, I'll show you racial preferences, set-asides, affirmative action and trillions in welfare dollars aimed at helping blacks. I'll show you a black president, two secretaries of state, an attorney general and numerous black politicians, celebrities, sports heroes, businesspeople and civil servants. The civil war paid the debt, we are now on the plus side so much it is impossible to calculate. Yet the "racial justice" industry keeps chugging along as if it were 1920 and the Klan was millions strong all over the country.
1 posted on 04/21/2012 10:32:45 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Zimmerman is white? Wow! This guy needs to get some eyeglasses.


2 posted on 04/21/2012 10:36:48 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So long as the concept of white guilt continues to hold ground among Caucasian people, this will continue. I of course also blame blacks who try to keep the ball rolling, but you can’t play guilt games where no guilt exists.


3 posted on 04/21/2012 10:44:43 AM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Lies.

Zimmerman is Peruvian by his mother.

He doesn’t even look white.

Zimmerman didn’t apologize.

He said he felt sorry for them for losing their son.

That is not the same, at all, as saying he’s responsible, because if it was self defense, he was NOT.


4 posted on 04/21/2012 10:47:50 AM PDT by txrangerette ("HOLD TO THE TRUTH...SPEAK WITHOUT FEAR" - Glenn Beck)
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“Unfortunately, to many, it (the apology) already rings hollow.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/trayvon-martin-parents-arrest-will-start-healing-process-but-theyre-working-for-conviction/2012/04/11/gIQAjEp5AT_story.html

“I would probably give him an opportunity to apologize,” Martin’s mother, Sybrina Fulton, told The Associated Press in an interview.

Ass. Pimps article, today: `Zimmerman is sorry for shooting, gets $150K bail’
“An attorney for Martin’s parents, who were in the courtroom when Zimmerman spoke, spurned the apology. The parents, Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulman, had no comment as they left.”
“In taking the stand, Zimmerman opened himself up to questions from the prosecutor, who grilled him on whether he made an apology to police on the night of the shooting, and why he waited so long to express remorse to Martin’s parents.”
No comments needed, just the facts tell us all we need to know.


5 posted on 04/21/2012 10:54:07 AM PDT by tumblindice (Our new, happy lives.)
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To: txrangerette

Exactly. Zim is as dark as our whiteblack prez.


6 posted on 04/21/2012 10:56:01 AM PDT by HerrBlucher (FUBO GTFO ABO......RUN BO!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

To accept the apology would be a sign of common human decency. But when your thinking is warped by Marxist race baiting opportunists, moral thinking is down the toilet.


7 posted on 04/21/2012 10:58:13 AM PDT by jonrick46 (Countdown to 11-06-2012)
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It is to certain people (who belong to a certain political party) advantage to keep black people poor and dependent and living in the ghetto....
Look into:
Valerie Jarrets’ real estate properties in Chicago. ....(She got rich while others of her race lived in squalor.)

Or the rental properties in New Orleans using HUD money ...Again owners got rich while poor lived substandard housing and WE paid for it. Ol man Landreau organized HUD under Jimmy Carter....Boy did he know how to use an abuse the system.

8 posted on 04/21/2012 11:04:31 AM PDT by hoosiermama
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The achievement Blacks have made in America are due in large part to the goodwill and pity of White American's...not their guilt.

Obama and his ilk have taught us that in return for our goodwill, we are not shown gratitude...we are shown an an anger and hatred so deep, it can never be assuaged.

Sad to say, but when I look at a Black person now, the first thing I wonder is..."do they smile to my face but harbor a deep hatred for me in their hearts?"

This is the change Obama has delivered.

9 posted on 04/21/2012 11:25:38 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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At issue here isn’t whether or not Zimmerman is really guilty or innocent, [rubbish that is the issue and the only issue] whether he had malicious intent [of courses intent is in issue is an element of the crime!] or was defending himself against what he perceived as imminent danger to his own life [ Wrong again. The Florida statute permits deadly force not just when one's life is in danger but when one is in danger of great bodily harm: "reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm "]. The issue remains the fact that Zimmerman is white [the author remain sublimely consistent, Zimmerman is Hispanic, 50% of Peruvian descent, not Caucasian], and Martin is black. While this shouldn’t be an issue, it is. Fortunately, the concept of “reasonable doubt” still holds true in a courtroom, but in the “real world,” reasonable doubt is tantamount to “he got off on a technicality.

This is not a question of reasonable doubt as the author insists it is a question of absence of evidence. Apart from the acknowledged fact that Zimmerman shot Martin, there is literally no evidence, repeat, no evidence that he committed a crime. This is not a technicality, this is basic justice. The author has got it all wrong, there is an issue here and the issue is basic justice.

This article is consistent with a pattern increasingly published by the establishment media which has now come to the realization that Zimmerman is innocent and they have climbed out on a limb which cannot sustain their shameful record of racialism in this case. So now they're crawling back slowly.

It is truly despicable, however, that, while they act now to mitigate damage to themselves by crawling back down the limb, they continue to ruin the life of an innocent man by anticipating the theme that an acquittal will only result because of a "technicality." Nothing could be further from the truth, which truth is unassailably clear from the public record: there is no evidence, none!


10 posted on 04/21/2012 11:25:48 AM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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Zimmerman is obviously a Jewish Hispanic Honky, until they can think of something else to call him.

I just want to call him cleared and free!

11 posted on 04/21/2012 11:35:39 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This Guzzardo clown talks like he might be some kind of racist and bigot.


12 posted on 04/21/2012 11:37:16 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (It's time for the 47% to start paying their "fair share" of income taxes.)
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To: nathanbedford

Innocence or guilt doesn’t matter, the mob needs blood.


13 posted on 04/21/2012 11:37:55 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If Zimmerman said he would cut his wrists to show he was sorry they would still say he was lying and the apology was worthless so who is kidding whom?


14 posted on 04/21/2012 11:47:45 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: RoosterRedux

(What they do)
(They smile in your face)
All the time they want to take your place
The back stabbers
(Back stabbers)

Backstabbers by the O’Jays


15 posted on 04/21/2012 11:57:58 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Ich habe keinen Konig aber Gott)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

And the parents want money.
The Martin/Fulman’s attorney has probably checked to see if the homeowners’ association has insurance, probably planning on some negligence theory for using neighborhood watchmen. The Zimmerman’s can’t have much.
The parents probably remember that OJ got off, but was then found liable in a civil action although anyone can see the differences between the two cases.
When someone says, “It isn’t the money—it’s the principle of the thing,” you can be damned sure it’s the money.


16 posted on 04/21/2012 11:59:01 AM PDT by tumblindice (Our new, happy lives.)
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To: miss marmelstein

If Zimmerman is white then we’ve yet to get our first black prez.


17 posted on 04/21/2012 12:43:15 PM PDT by bgill
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To: RoosterRedux
Sad to say, but when I look at a Black person now, the first thing I wonder is..."do they smile to my face but harbor a deep hatred for me in their hearts?" This is the change Obama has delivered.

More and more are thinking the same every day of this admin.

18 posted on 04/21/2012 12:45:18 PM PDT by bgill
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Isn’t it called transference: Accusing others of what you are yourself?


19 posted on 04/21/2012 12:53:09 PM PDT by hoosiermama
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

People like this ‘journalist’ are fueling hate with this absolutely disgusting and indefensible crap. I am not in any possible way responsible for any of the ‘historical’ issues that black activists point to. In fact, no living whites have anything to do with black slavery. American society doesn’t owe any racial group anything at this point in history. Nothing.


20 posted on 04/21/2012 1:42:15 PM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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