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
Pastor tells congregation to stop looking at Zimmerman verdict “through black eyes”
In his message to the ATLAH World Missionary Church in New York City, Manning told his predominantly black congregation to stop looking at the world through their “black eyes” and instead look at it through the “blood of Jesus.”
Manning explained it like this “the only reason why you think that way is because you’re black,” Manning continued. “You see the world, not through the blood of Jesus, you see the world through your black eyes. You have not changed yet.”
Manning continued “you’re black before you’re anything. You’re black before you’re Christian, you’re black before you’re Holy Ghost, you’re black before you’re anything. You’re blackness is greater than your religion. And that’s why with you, Zimmerman’s guilty.”
http://www.krmg.com/news/news/pastor-tells-congregation-stop-looking-zimmerman-v/nYtr3/
I'd LOVE to see her take a polygraph, She would peg the needles because she was lying her ass off.
LOLOLMAO! Best laugh today! Thanks...
It’s going to be a long, hot (and maybe bloody) summer, I’m afraid. I truly hope I’m wrong.
Check out the spelling and grammar. This is a TROLL!!!
Thug comitted suicide.
God bless you, Marcella.
I get similar all the time here and I march right past those creepy thugs like I own this city.
Yes, Zimmerman/Martin is a very important 2nd amendment issue, but it has become a Feint battle plan for this Administration! Obamas posterior is on fire with other issues (IRS, NSA, Benghazi...). So what does he do with the help of the press? OB takes Martin/Zimmerman and turns it into a PSYOPs. He is not an idiot. He is probably laughing his rear off now that the flames have been extinguished.
No more Zimmerman/Martin...Im going to do some anger management therapy plinking with my Glock!!!
Eyebrow-raising, eye-popping, mouth-gaping, gasp-inducing, fist-pounding, stomach-wrenching insanity.
White conservatives often criticize black race-hustlers for ginning up public outrage in order to profit from it. Trayvon Martin is dead because he chose to initiate a fight to the death with George Zimmerman and lost.
That’s retarded, sir.
“...Instead Rachel Jenatel told him to RUN, which like a dumbass, he did.
Trayvon is dead because he was stupid.”
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I agree with your second sentence. But I don’t think Rachel told him to “RUN, TRAYVON, RUN”. I think it much more likely that she told him to do the KNOCK OUT GAME on the “creepy ass cracka” and then beat the crap out of him. And Trayvon listened to Rachel. Or it is possible that Trayvon did it on his own initiative—in either case he was stupid.
Ditto. There is no way you can have a "conversation" with brainwashed ignorant fools.
If they want to live in a paradise without "whitey" around, perhaps they should all move to Haiti.
I was ready to support Carson for President.
This week I found out his position on "gun control".
I'd now like to see him in high office, one that has no influence over the second amendment,
Well, I cab scratch that one off my original list.
Hmmmm I hadn’t considered the “knockout game”...interesting point.
Great, and thank you so much for keeping The List, my friend.
Such “mere children” are murdering people every day. Possibly more than one of those 60 people killed in Chicago during Zimmerman’s trial.
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