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
About which not one of these race baiters makes a fuss.
Isn't it amazing? But I can figure out why: there's no money in it. Racial grievances are directed at the non-black community and its tax dollars, wallets, and checkbooks.
Indeed. What a sleazy way to make a living, and a lucrative one at that.
The percentage of children born in Black America who behave as Travon seems to have done is much greater than the percentage of children born in White America who do such things. So in that sense the author's statement is correct; its meaning is essentially as you describe. The problem is that liberals use the term "race" to refer to a particular culture whose adherents reject non-dark-skinned people. They argue that it's not right to discriminate against someone on the basis of their skin color, and then use that to imply not only that it's not right to discriminate against people on the basis of their culture, but that it's not even right to discriminate against people on the basis of culturally-mandated behaviors, notwithstanding that it is the leftist-mandated lack of such "discrimination" that has led to the lack of moral discipline within Black American culture.
I guess the Black community sees no problem in Trayvon criminally assaulting Zimmerman instead of just going home. Seems to me the problem here is the Black community failing to see just how messed up so many young black males are. Trayvon is just another example of such.
I am confident that the author didn’t mean to imply that all American blacks are thugs but it is the only premise that makes his statements logical.
See how that worked?
http://www.gzdefensefund.com/donate/What does the author think about all the blacks that kill other blacks? How does he blame whitey for those killings?
What a racist!
unbelieveable. I guess one can’t be a minority in the republican party now....thanks for the info.
And just because i don’t believe a kid deserved to be killed that doens’t make me a democrat. however if i’m supposed to believe killing a kid is a good thing perhaps I should become one.
When did I say a fact was racist? Where did you even get that from?
I was merely mirroring what the Alinskyites would say about your statement. I agree with it. We’re both racists.
Trayvon is dead because he bought into an inferior culture. You cannot choose your skin color, but you can choose your culture.
Admit it YoungWhiteLiberal you are a racist. Are you really Cwissy Mathews?
Pray for America to Wake Up
Oh yeah, where is the evidence Trayvon was even hit by the MMA guy? Go back to DU.
Pray for America to Wake Up
What IS "believable" is that you can indeed be a purple gay Klingon in the Republican Party. Without possessing a single iota of principle or intellectual honesty. Do you fill the bill?
And just because i don’t believe a kid deserved to be killed that doens’t make me a democrat. however if i’m supposed to believe killing a kid is a good thing perhaps I should become one.
WHY do you totally discount the fact that Zimmerman was patrolling a Condo complex that's been inundated with a frequent degree of break-ins and theft? That Martin had been in the possession of stolen jewelry? And especially for totally ignoring the FACT that Martin assaulted Zimmerman and may have beaten him to death had he not defended himself with lethal force.
Have YOU ever had had someone sitting on you while pounding your head on concrete (after first been sucker-punched and had your nose broken?)
LOL @ "Good kid". Hilarious....
You may try fooling yourself into beliving you've escaped the tribal Plantation Mentality of da hood, but you haven't. Good luck with your self-deluded introspection.
But...but...'YoungBlackRepublican' is trying so sincerely hard to escape the Plantation! You can tell by his/her/its intellectual honesty.
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We do care. We care a lot when someone starts spewing ignorant, fact-free talking points right from Sharpton's agenda. And refers to statements of fact about black crime levels as racism.
If we wanted to read that garbage from posters, we'd be over at DU or KOS.
So buh-bye and head over there yourself. I'm sure they will welcome those kind of posts with open arms.
Kitten chow over here.
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