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Beneath the Spin: Trayvon Martin is Dead Because He Was Born Black in America – Period
The Wattree Chronicles ^ | July 12, 2013 | Eric L. Wattree

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


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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Here is an article from about ten years ago, which I came across recently, that reveals some basic truths about why whites view this issue so differently from blacks. It’s a little slow getting going, but very worthwhile.

Race, Values, the O.J. Verdict, and Right-To-Carry, or
A Statistician Explains a Conundrum
By John Ross (author of Unintended Consequences)

http://web.archive.org/web/20070706054607/http://www.john-ross.net/race&rtc.htm


101 posted on 07/12/2013 5:11:55 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: YoungBlackRepublican

So you think the guy’s skin color was what caused him to jump George Zimmerman?


102 posted on 07/12/2013 5:12:37 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I dunno,have to gather a sample and run it to the lab.


103 posted on 07/12/2013 5:15:07 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: FreedomPoster

I guess we’ll get to see where all those 80 million guns bought since November 2008 (plus the 400-500 million that were already around) went to, huh? We couldn’t pacify three smallish counties where the populace had to beg, borrow, steal or manufacture firearms (Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan) so how is the same military going to go against hundreds of millions of well-armed, well-fed, healthy civilians with automobiles, night vision goggles, GPS, cell phones, CB radios, ATVs, walkie-talkies, plenty of survival foodstuffs and camouflage clothing?


104 posted on 07/12/2013 5:15:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's next run. What'll you do?)
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To: Venturer

The definitive proof that many whites are racist in America is that hip hop videos, which made by blacks, feature light-skinned black women instead of dark-skinned black women.

Okaaay...


105 posted on 07/12/2013 5:15:53 PM PDT by heartwood
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To: YoungBlackRepublican
93% of murdered blacks are killed by blacks.

http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-201_162-3153497.html

Since when are facts racist?

106 posted on 07/12/2013 5:16:51 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Who could have guessed that one day pro wrestling would be less fake than mainstream journalism?)
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To: YoungBlackRepublican
yeah...he’s a black kid so he must have been on a mission to mug and kill right?....

Admit it; You're old, white, and Democrat.

If YOUR "mission" is in making a case for criminal thieve and thugs who case out neighborhoods in order to "redistribute the wealth" and kill Whitey, you've made a wrong turn, LaQweesha.

107 posted on 07/12/2013 5:19:01 PM PDT by USS Johnston (Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be bought at the price of chains & slavery? - Patrick Henry)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The politics of covetousness apparently leads people to believe they have a crystal ball, and can absolutely prove their emotional opinions just by writing them and hitting “Send.”


108 posted on 07/12/2013 5:22:01 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Remember... the first revolutionary was Satan."--Russian Orthodox Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov)
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To: Temujinshordes
My wife was in St. Maarten recently. Upon her return, she commented how nice it was to be around black people who were not victims, did not have a chip on their shoulders, were not expecting something for nothing, but were just People. Just people like everyone else.

Same with my African-from-Africa neighbors. Just nice neighbors. They speak British English that they learned in school. And they don't think highly of AA's.

109 posted on 07/12/2013 5:25:38 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Remember... the first revolutionary was Satan."--Russian Orthodox Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov)
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To: YoungBlackRepublican
yeah...he’s a black kid so he must have been on a mission to mug and kill right?....jesus

That's the premise the author has based his article on.

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.

That statement makes no sense unless the author believes all American blacks are hot headed thugs because that's the reason Trayvon got shot.

110 posted on 07/12/2013 5:26:43 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" is more than an Army Ranger credo it's the character of America.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It is obvious that this guy does have a chip on his shoulder. He doesn’t weigh into his comparisons/arguments that sports with all the huge money and salaries are now dominated by black people. I take this along with money involved as recognition by blacks, whites, and whatever color recognition of superlative ability for a task. The history of the USA is replete with demonstration that a person’s talent and effort can be the pay off in the USA.


111 posted on 07/12/2013 5:29:18 PM PDT by noinfringers2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trayvon Martin is Dead Because He Was Born Black in America and into a black culture of unwed mothers, no respect for themselves or the law, rappers who demean women, etc., etc., etc..........


112 posted on 07/12/2013 5:29:48 PM PDT by The Wizard (Madam President is my President now and in the future)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
And the overwhelming majority of them are killed by other black gangstahs.

It's almost like the N-Word. ...Whitey can't say the N-word, just Blacks to each other or about someone else.

Whitey can't shoot a Black man, that's a Black thing.

113 posted on 07/12/2013 5:30:40 PM PDT by TexasCajun (Creepy-Ass Cracker)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
What happened to the projectile vomit alert
114 posted on 07/12/2013 5:34:22 PM PDT by semaj
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.

Keep your ammo nearby, but it’s probably unlikely to amount to much, initially. The author of this racist spin-job is one of the many racist jackasses shilling in the media, but the flash mob violence and for that matter, most of the violence in the society, comes from his fellow de facto members of the blackkk, has been going on for a long while now, will continue for long while, and has nothing to do with the illegal prosecution of George Zimmerman.

NAACP Blackballs Borelli and Bryant — Historic group abandons civil rights for liberalism.
American Spectator | 7.11.13 | Jeffrey Lord
Posted on 07/12/2013 3:52:21 PM PDT by neverdem
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3042280/posts


115 posted on 07/12/2013 5:35:44 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (McCain or Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The thoughts this poor man must have while looking in the mirror each morning.

What a pitiful way to go through life, obsessed with the color of his skin every moment of his life.

116 posted on 07/12/2013 5:39:08 PM PDT by TexasCajun (Creepy-Ass Cracker)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There is nothing whites can do to change this mindset; it must come from the black community itself. As long as there are men such as this, it will not happen.


117 posted on 07/12/2013 5:57:14 PM PDT by Jvette
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To: bray

If Z had stayed in the truck, this kid would have gone on to get offed by one of his street rivals. Percentages are all there and the black community continues to allow the gangsta thang to be the role model. Cosby has talked about it forever, that and the p-poor language.

It is the professional race victimizer industry that keeps this meme going, and it gets votes and federal dollars for nothing. It maybe even got us our current wh occumaumau.

There are so many minorities who have not had all this “excuse” built in for generations.. really. Imaging someone coming up from ancestors who were coolie labor on western railroads.... to become merchant titans in Hong Kong.


118 posted on 07/12/2013 5:59:09 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: SampleMan
If I had a million dollars I'd bet it all that the real conversation between Martin and Jaba Jeantel was along the lines of, "I'm going to beat this guy's ass."

I can guarantee that was the case and Jeantel lied her ass off.

In the end, if Trayvon had just walked to the Condo he was staying at and if he encountered Zimmerman, just explained to him where he was staying it would have ended in nothing.

119 posted on 07/12/2013 5:59:19 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A somewhat educated, and self-hating person. The bit about the hip hop video coloration is idiotic. Perhaps he could then explain the popularity of nordic blondes to the hopsters, the “hos” they respect so much. the answer— drugs and the culture they persist in employing street punks at, corner clockers.

The underground (and not so much under) has posted this kid’s twitter crap about “lean” made with skittles, robitussin (with dextromethorphan codeine analog cough suppressant) and Arizona watermelon tea. They drink a lot of it, and get crazy high and hyped. This evidence was not allowed, but referred to in the chem workup of the autopsy, that and pot/THC.


120 posted on 07/12/2013 6:03:15 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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