This whole thing pisses me off. Once again, just because I’m white, and a republican, I am somehow made to be the fall guy because some guy somewhere shot a black person.
You are right, we don’t know what happened. But I don’t know why I should be invested in whether Zimmerman is guilty of something or not. He’s some guy in Florida. But somehow the President of the United States is taking sides, and reminding me that he is black and I am not. Somehow, Gingrich and Santorum think this is an important presidential issue. Somehow congressional aides think it is important to protest, as if everybody involved isn’t already wanting to learn what really happened.
It’s like preemptive outrage. Nobody is happy a kid got shot, especially an unarmed kid. But it’s apparently conservatives at fault, because we are all racists. It pisses me off.
So much that I feel like I want to defend Zimmerman, when two days ago I was happy to throw him under the bus if he was guilty. That is what the race-baiters have done, taken something that all of us should be united about (sorrow that an unarmed kid got killed, and interest in learning all the facts and making sure that if someone committed a crime, they be punished regardless of their race), and have instead forced a division, made it political, and have trampled on a poor kid’s grave for their own purposes.
That's exactly what they want.....the words of Booker T Washington:
"I am afraid that there is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public."
That is a great summary of events.
I’ve been trying to do what little I can by posting links to the available factual information. It feels like pissing in the wind against the media maelstrom, which seems primarily designed to whip up the masses into a frenzy.
That's because the ONLY unprotected class in America are white, heterosexual, conservative males. Just about every other class/category of people in America are a protected "minority" - except us.
Be sure to thank your congresscritter for this singular honor!
(Yes, that last line was sarcasm!)