[SoothingDave]

Present company excluded, of course. ;-)

You know what I mean. People that throw around terms like “hood-rat” and other thinly veiled racial references.

I asked and got no answers on a thread about what we would all say if Zimmerman reported a blonde girl as “suspicious” and she ended up dead.

Would we all feel the same?

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Using FR as an example is wrong - you KNOW the idiot men on this board (not all are idiots) would ask if the girl was hot before deciding if she was innocent or guilty. Now that mentality is what you are using to describe the veiled racial comments.

I found it interesting that a witness says the kid attacked Zimmerman, who had grass stains on the back of his shirt/jacket and a bloody nose. If that is all true, and the police responding made note of that, it appears they decided zimmerman was attacked. I also read this weekend that the kid may have gone for zimmerman's gun. But as you pointed out, we don't know what happened. I am just sickened that the black panthers can put out a hit on the guy and no one does anything.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Dave, while I understand your concern about “hood rat” references and such you can’t tell me that a black family in your neighborhood or a black man/woman you might work with is the same as some person hanging out on a corner in the ghetto areas of a big city. You wouldn’t be the least afraid of passing someone in a grocery store, or a department store, or walking the sidewalk in your neighborhood - but none of us, no matter how liberal thinking, would feel safe when in a ghetto with a group of men or women walking toward us.