Posted on 07/12/2013 3:53:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
White conservatives often criticize Black people for being too quick to play what they call "the race card." On the other hand, many Black people criticize America for not being sensitive enough to the reality that race plays in American life. George Zimmerman’s trial for the murder of Trayvon Martin clearly validates the Black community’s point of view.
Trayvon Martin is dead for no other reason than he was born Black in America. That’s a non-debatable fact. Had he been a White kid, Trayvon would have still been alive today. Yet, even as the jury is out deliberating Zimmerman’s fate, there’s a raging debate going on in America over whether or not Zimmerman was justified in taking this mere child’s life.
Regardless to the eventual verdict in this case, the trial itself clearly demonstrates how the laws of the land are routinely bent against the interest of the Black community, while still managing to maintain the illusion of justice for all.
The bottom line is, Trayvon Martin was guilty of absolutely nothing. He was simply engaged in an activity that millions of kids - good kids - engage in all across this country on a daily basis. He wasn’t casing the neighborhood in preparation to commit a crime, he wasn’t walking down the street smoking dope, nor was he walking the street in search of a potential victim. He was simply an innocent kid on his way home after going to the store to buy a bag of Skiddles and a soft drink. So how, in a just society, can he end up dead, and his killer - an armed adult, who stalked him, and outweighed him by forty pounds - can now be claiming self-defense in his murder? The very scenario strains credulity to the limit.
One would think the facts above would be crystal clear to every single person in America - and they would be if the situation was exactly reversed. If Trayvon Martin had been the adult in this scenario, and he stalked and killed a White kid under the exact same circumstances - if he stalked the kid, weighed forty pounds more than his victim, and he was armed while the kid was not - chances are, he would already be on Death Row, for First Degree Murder - that is, assuming he survived to reach the police station.
So while I don’t take the position that all White people are malevolent, nor am I one who looks under every rock for the existence of racism whenever Black people don’t get their way, I do stand firm in the belief that racism is such an historically pervasive part of American life that many Americans - both Black and White - harbor grossly racist attitudes towards Black people that are so deeply ingrained that they don’t even recognize it themselves.
You don’t think so? Watch any hip hop video and count the number beautiful dark-skinned sisters you find. I guarantee you, you’ll find very few - and even when a dark-skinned sister is so strikingly beautiful that they can’t avoid using her, they’ll usually shine a light on her to make her look orange.
So I reiterate, Trayvon Martin is dead due to the gross racism of a grossly racist society - Period.
The Author
It is so frustrating and disgusting.
Even Fox news was mimicking the "child" meme when presenting current news about jury instructions all afternoon : they were displaying the 14-year-old photo of Trave-on.
He’s dead because of a culture of irresponsibility, thug behavior, welfare dependency, illiteracy, rap music, fractured families, drug dependency and the realization that there’s no future for people afflicted with same. They’re unemployable dependents of the Democrat plantation. Their only outlet is crime and hustling on the streets. Who wants some “purple drank?”
And, since the baby didn't lay a finger on him, why did Z go ahead and beat himself up on the sidewalk, front and back, after the child was already shot and dead?
< /sarc >
Those people are absolutely insane.
At 11:30 pm...
S-a-a-a-a-a-y.
Did this Black Mensa Mental giant fail to spell "Skittles" correctly?
This guy could easily be one.
It's a 50-50 chance.
Agree with everything you said.
I'm really sorry to say this, but if any responsible adult had cared about this kid, he'd be alive today. As it is, he's worth more dead than alive to those who would use this as an excuse to riot.
Welcome back.
Just man up and document your refutation of the statement. Unless you can persuade the rest of us to accept that printing "unpleasant" news is racist.
Mind you, ten years ago you would be totally in tune with the "politically correct" mind set of --- yes, even Free Republic admins. I was suspended twice for voicing unpleasant truths --- about muslims.
Things have changed, and denial can only last so long among rational human beings of all political persuasions and races.
By the way, that would be "blatant."
Mr. Eric L. Wattree, you really need to escape this pervasive, insidious racisim here in America.
Please return to Africa where you can relax in the comforting arms of Tribalism.
Just a note of caution. before returning to the Mother continent, make sure you determine your ancestral tribe, learn its language, rituals, identifying tattoos and scar patterns and most importantly its ENEMY tribes, their boundries and identifying characteristics.
http://libertykenya.wordpress.com/2011/04/11/tribalism-killing-kenya/
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=267752
http://www.nairaland.com/1267755/tribalism-killing-nigeria
That's acting "white," man.
American blacks are not genetically predisposed to do that.
Insisting on it is racist!
I wonder why we never see the lyrics of black rap music on FR. Is that racism, too?
Kinda hard to suspend reality.
The child was wandering around in the rain, at midnight, walking between groups of buildings not on a direct route to his house.
What's to be suspicious about?
“As it is, he’s worth more dead than alive to those who would use this as an excuse to riot.”
Even sadder, he is worth more to his parents today dead, due to the money they’ve been able to raise by exploiting his death, than he was when living in their homes. The mother that knows her son’s voice so well is the same woman who threw him out of the house. The caring father was out on the town that night instead of watching his wayward son. Suddenly, when he is gone, and his memory can be exploited for money and fame, the parents have the time for Trayvon they could not find when he was living.
It's disgusting.
Even now there is no one to speak up on behalf of all the Trayvons still living.
Nope. Trayvon was guilty of assaulting a random dude (white, Hispanic, whatever).
If he'd followed Rachel's advice, he'd have lived. (Based on the basic facts of the case). He'd have been home before George could have reacquired him.
Trayvon is the symbol for every racial grievance imaginable.
True as a stand-alone. Too bad the "author" isn't smart or honest enough to realize he and his are the racists and the ones who have allowed their race to devolve to the point where being a shiftless, law-breaking thug is supposed to be forgiven even if it means a bunch of Whites suffer loss or death. Pogo was speaking directly to the Black "community" when he spoke about meeting the enemy...
“Even now there is no one to speak up on behalf of all the Trayvons still living.”
Yes, if Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton were anything but race pimps they’d be in their communities working with the young Trayvons and trying to show them the right way. Same with Jeremiah Wright. How many hours did the young community organizer Barack Obama spend actually out on the street working to keep teens from dealing drugs, stealing and pimping?
We have a huge cultural issue now that we are breeding the fourth and fifth generations of urban welfare babies. No effective parenting skills are being passed down from parents to children. The community institutions (churches, nonprofits, and government) are 100% about riding the money train and spend no time teaching morals and life skills. We now have a self perpetuating human wasteland of sex crazed youth producing unwanted babies who will grow up on the street to do the same. One of the two political parties is highly invested in perpetuating this cycle of destruction for votes and the other party is its willing accomplice.
Trayvon was a victim but he was a victim of progressive social engineering and bad parenting.
The bull$hit and self-delusion in this piece is chin-deep.
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