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
When they are not in alignment to the liberal agenda. Duh.
The poster in question has left the building.
That’s old school.
We new school.
Well, his screen name wasn’t YoungBlackConservative. That might have been the first tip-off.
Thanks, TOL!
RINOs. They’re everywhere!
Yes, someone turned this person’s head somehow.
Probably the propaganda coming out of the white hut.
I wonder how many more minds they’ve destroyed with the “po black me” attitude.
Gunner, you’re a white boy! Really. ;-)
That'll all change after a couple of semesters at the
RACHEL JEANTEL SCHOOL OF ELOCUTION AND POISE
(We be @#newschool yo)
Zimmerman, grass stains on his back, injuries to face and back of head consistent with being pummeled while on the ground.
Trayvon, grass stains on his knees consistent with being on top of someone while beating their face in.
Examine your statement and point out where the disconnect between fact and your fantasy lay.
Also, point out where color comes into any of that.
Thanks.
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Fresh chow!
A rare “Examine the talking points” ping for the Undead.
Note the reliance on feeling, skin color, and accusations against others of racism where none exist.
Sad to see someone goo down this road, but something to look out for in the coming weeks as Zero and Holder work overtime to contrive a federal kangaroo court case against Zimmerman.
[Waiting for Bloomberg or Cuomo to bring charges in Ny as that kind of idiocy is in keeping with their character.]
Thanks Darksheare.
Welcome.
Untold thousands of words have been written about this. What is the shortest sentence to explain what happened? Maybe: “A black man was shot because he attacked a Hispanic man.” Or: “A black man attacked an Hispanic man and was shot.” The last one is ten words.
That reminds me of the “Worm man” mask from the movie Pink Floyd The Wall.
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