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.
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Idiot died being an idiot.
Five words?
Nine words.
Five old-school words.
In a way, I hope it happens. I've always wanted to visit an alien planet.
I know it's 11 words, but I like my tag...
Thank You. Too crispy though. Need Joe to used a little less flame thrower next time.
I assume we’ll be liberating this thread from it’s rightful owner?
Tell that BS to Dr. Ben Carson.
Hmm, yes.
Five words are the minimum needed to describe what happened.
Nope, legit thread that had illegit poster on it.
Though the subject matter is important and worth discussing, it’s not “Undead Thread” fodder.
[Due to our wandering off subject after six posts. As is our format.]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn3VJFQrKEE
Just because.
Thug killed.
Two words.
It is 11 words, but I laughed at this one, however, I have a monster toothache and am living on Hydrocodone pain pills so anything, sort of, is funny. Helps keep my mind off the pain. Will call dentist Monday. Why do these things happen on weekends?
Really, all these thousands of words wasted on this gun happening is nuts. In Texas, it would be, “Attacked and died.” That, however, takes the racial bit out but it's still what happened.
One can't take, however, millions of blacks, and assign each one the same motivation. Each is an individual and has individual motives for what he/she does.
Say a black (I forgot to mention when I'm on pain pills, I talk a lot so I'm writing a lot), so I'll start over. Say a black attacks a white. Why did he do it? Is the reason, “Because I can?” Is it, “I hate white people.” Is it, “I'm going to rob their money and credit cards.”
A few times when my husband was ill, I had to go to a certain Walgreens to get a medicine because the one across the street from the house, was out of that. That other Walgreens is on a corner about 5 miles away. The street from that Walgreens goes into old town and down from old town is where a group of blacks live. Some black men, likely barely still teen agers (means the age group of baby boy Trayvon), gather in the area just down from the front door. They hang out there all the time, day and night time, for no reason.
I park in my black Jag and have to walk past this bunch of maybe 10 blacks in order to get in the store. I slam my Jag door with determination knowing they are looking at my car, and walk past these dudes into the store. I have the same experience getting back out, stomping past them like they are not there and getting into the car and locking the doors and windows by pushing one button. I hate going to that store and won't do it again unless it's absolutely necessary as it was those times.
I now have my “plastic” car, a tan Hyundai, and no one cares about that car - it's just like every other car these days - an ugly box. Nothing sexy about cars now.
“Idiot died being an idiot.
Five words?”
But that doesn’t have the attack mentioned. Granted, Democrats die being idiots.
For that you scream racism...Check yourself.
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