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 anyones guess; the apology seemed heartfelt.
Unfortunately, to many, it already rings hollow.
At issue here isnt 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 shouldnt 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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Zimmerman is white? Wow! This guy needs to get some eyeglasses.
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.
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.
“Unfortunately, to many, it (the apology) already rings hollow.”
I would probably give him an opportunity to apologize, Martins 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.
Exactly. Zim is as dark as our whiteblack prez.
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.
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.
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.
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!
I just want to call him cleared and free!
This Guzzardo clown talks like he might be some kind of racist and bigot.
Innocence or guilt doesn’t matter, the mob needs blood.
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?
(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
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.
If Zimmerman is white then we’ve yet to get our first black prez.
More and more are thinking the same every day of this admin.
Isn’t it called transference: Accusing others of what you are yourself?
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.
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