That is a terrifying story.
I suppose that, being from mostly white communties and having dealt with white thugs, I didn’t care about the race of the two parties in the Zimmerman/Martin case.
And that being said, I only related to one of the guys: Zimmerman. Never in my lifetime would I have hit another person before they attacked me. In fact, I’ve never hit anyone in my life. But if I had been Zimmerman, once getting that beatdown I would have emptied my gun into the guy.
And here is the important part: It would not be to kill him, thought that may be the effect. Rather, it would be to make him stop hitting me.
Make Martin white and I still have nothing in common with that boy and never did.
This whole case is not about race. It is a clash of cultures. There are many liberals I’ve argued this with and they believe that the only ethical way Z should have defended himself was in like manner: Try to get some swings in.
But I live in the culture of Indiana Jones. You come at me with a sword? I shoot you. It’s something I never understood about martial arts movies either. Just shoot the guy already.
>>But thank God I was spared from the sort of “activist” hostility he [Zimmerman] now faces: hostility that marches toward his door – all our doors – to the tune of emotion-laden, fact-less anti-white drumbeats of hatred.<<
Last paragraph from the article...sent shivers down my spine.
One take-away from this story and George Zimmerman story:
Witnesses and recording devices. If your intent and actions are good, these will work for you.