Posted on 03/24/2012 10:56:25 AM PDT by Baynative
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — I thought my son would be much older before I had to tell him about the Black Male Code. He's only 12, still sleeping with stuffed animals, still afraid of the dark. But after the Trayvon Martin tragedy, I needed to explain to my child that soon people might be afraid of him.
We were in the car on the way to school when a story about Martin came on the radio. "The guy who killed him should get arrested. The dead guy was unarmed!" my son said after hearing that neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman had claimed self-defense in the shooting in Sanford, Fla.
We listened to the rest of the story, describing how Zimmerman had spotted Martin, who was 17, walking home from the store on a rainy night, the hood of his sweatshirt pulled over his head. When it was over, I turned off the radio and told my son about the rules he needs to follow to avoid becoming another Trayvon Martin — a black male who Zimmerman assumed was "suspicious" and "up to no good."
As I explained it, the Code goes like this:
(Excerpt) Read more at google.com ...
Huh? Anything is possible, I guess, but you mean to say during struggle Zimmermann’s gripped gun goes off, while Trayvon’s hand is holding the slide and barrel, and that somehow prevents the next round from feeding into the chamber from the magazine? I don’t think so.
You clearly either didn’t read the article, or have some severely lacking comprehension abilities.
>> Article: He’s only 12, still sleeping with stuffed animals, still afraid of the dark.
This is indeed a desperately sad situation to contemplate. This unsuspecting child will be inundated with a destructive counter-culture that promotes violence, sexism, paranoia, and contempt for education, friendliness, and the ordinary. And what will his loving father do to protect his son from this pernicious influence?
Let me explain something to Jesse.
For my first ten years here in NJ, my wife and I lived in an apartment complex. One family that was close by was a black family that had two (or maybe three, but really this is about the oldest) sons. I took a liking to the oldest son. I don't even remember why. But I remember talking out my telescope to show him the moon and the planets. I knew his parents mostly because I knew him. When he was a young teen we moved away, and I mostly forgot about him; until I had a chance encounter with his father on an airplane. This was several years later. I enthusiastically asked about his son.
The father sadly looked down at his shoes and told me that his son started running with the wrong crowd and was in trouble with the law. It was not what I expected. I thought the kid might be at Princeton.
So, Jesse, if you're reading this don't go blaming me if I shy away from your young people who want to live in a different universe. I've done the best I could.
ML/NJ
AMEN! If they can’t learn to live peacefully with a predominately white America, they should relocate and build their own society instead of being on the teat of ours.
That’s a two hour range.
If 5:30, it was daylight and if 7:30, it was dark out. Unless we have a more precise time, the issue of whether the incident happened in daylight or at nighttime is still unresolved, and certain crucial inferences about the incident cannot be made.
Yes.
This is exactly what sticks in my craw.
A bad mix of having things too easy (with rise of affluence), the public school culture, in some cases parents (dads not being around), and in some cases white ethnics forgetting their roots.
I don't think white folks need to embrace "thug life," and I have no use for it. I do think we need to stand our ground and refuse to stop being doormats putting up with BS from either white leftists or goons (actual goons, not Martin) of any color. If the system fails, then do what needs to be done. That's what Micks, Southerners, and Italians have done since the beginning of time.
I can't stand poverty pimps, but I have begrudging respect for one aspect of black culture. What happens if a white person kills an innocent black person. Massive outrage. It's not tolerated. It should NOT be tolerated. The system then normally takes care of it. What happens when blacks kill innocent whites? We put up with it. Even in the 1980's. That would NEVER happen in a lot of areas. Those Micks, Southerners, and Italians especially would make sure of it. That needs to come back, and it's on us. If the system doesn't work right, we need to do its job for it quietly.
“I do feel bad for blacks today. You have to be immediately mistrusted by whites due to simple statistical realities, there are integrated trust issues with Hispanics due to some competing race kind of thing, and you have to be weary of other blacks since black-on-black crime is so prevalent.”
Not only that, but hard working patriotic blacks have to enter every new job with the automatic suspicion that they are an AA hire. Though, it doesn’t take very long for people to tell the difference. The other work problem, however, is the workplace commeradarie. People who work together tend to have some fun at each others expense, but with a constant fear of the unknown slightest offence being lawsuit material it prevents coworkers from becoming close and can create low level resentment. Time can fix that, but this is the legacy that many people have to shoulder.
The Black Male Code, White Male Code, Code for Women, Code for little children. This is all so sad, but so necessary, living in this not so very nice world. I remember the TV series Hill Street Blues, a police drama Where they would say to beat cops before they went on the street: Just be careful, it’s a jungle out there. I just wish his father Tracy Martin had told him about the code, but the dad chose to leave the family and it always goes south from there. This article by JESSE WASHINGTON, is excellent, and his sons are very fortunate to have such a caring father. Thanks for the post.
One of these’d work nicely, too:
http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Baseball-Cap-Spy-Camera_1.jpg
Well, that's my point. There's no end of numbskull leftists who would say that you're just racist, but reality is more complex than the racial utopia liberals imagine we can all live in.
“Sharpton, Jackson were big parts of it along with the likes of Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson-Lee and many others who fueled the flames of hatred in order to profit for themselves.”
It’s a HUGE business & industry; billions of $s involved from govt “grants” and industry/corporate “bribes”.
It’s not going to go away, anytime soon, as long as that kind of money continues to fuel it, B. Sad to say...
We teach our children to be children to often.
We need to teach them to be adults.
Ha! Good idea! I think I will be purchasing a few for him. Maybe he will wear one, I hope so. He is a stubborn thang. This mess has me worried. He will probably just laugh at me. *sigh*
We were not doing too bad at all with skin color until Obama came along and made things much more worse. As for me? I don't care about any of these people. Dead kid, white hispanic, Sharpton, etc. I don't know them so all this is is pictures and sound coming out of the TV and radio and the net. I put that all aside and lay the blame, if any, at the feet of the putrid Obama.
Well that’s what I read on the internets
Well played.
Just tell him, it’s k-e-w-l and he’ll love it. LOL. I wear this one:
http://www.policecatalog.com/images/71545.jpg
“Well that’s what I read on the internets”
Heh. That oughta be good enough for anybody.
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