Posted on 04/21/2012 5:19:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Statistics show a deep divide in opinions along racial lines regarding the killing of a black Florida teenager, Trayvon Martin, by George Zimmerman, who is of mixed ethnicity, white and Hispanic.
Zimmerman has claimed self-defense, invoking the Sunshine States Stand Your Ground law which has also come under intense scrutiny in the wake of the incident.
Reuters news service reported last week, 91% of blacks believe Martin was unjustly killed, while only 35% of whites concurred. Hispanics were in between at 59% according to polling numbers Reuters gathered by querying nearly 2,000 Americans.
The disparity of views over Martins death is even less ambiguous than another racially charged case, the O.J. Simpson murder trial.
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Significantly nonexistent afterwards was rioting, looting and burning of businesses, or attacks on hapless victims. After all, a black man had received justice, so-called.
Not so when the jury in the trial of police officers involved in the beating of defiant motorist Rodney King in Los Angeles failed to elicit the verdicts minorities were clamoring for.
In the days following that trial, blacks and Hispanics took to the streets of the L.A. basin killing, burning, rampaging, and robbing, feeling they had been denied justice...
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Most of us are.
Bunch of us spoiling for a fight.
The KKK was the terrorist wing of the Democrat Party. It looks like radical Democrat racists want to revive their early days and terrorize those who do not bow to their demands.
The liberal media are responsible for charging the race hate and injustice up. All the way up the feeding chain.
I would rather have the riots than a man be railroaded to prison and I lived through the L.A. riots.
On the night he was “executed” by this white Aryan racist Nazi gun-toting rightwinger named “Zimmerman”, poor little innocent Trayvon was carrying an original Stradivarius violin under one arm, and an orignal Gutenberg Bible under the other, as he was returning from a Scripture study class followed by a hot session of Mozart string quartet sonatas.
Would you mind sharing what you saw and heard there? Thanks.
Would you mind sharing what you saw and heard there? Thanks.
Some leftist catholic priests were involved in some of the destruction. The democrat convention was a real free for all until Mayor Daly put out the order to stop them any way you wanted to...
My girlfriends brother was a cop in Chicago during those times and what the papers never told you was what the idiots were really doing (like now)..They would drive nails through tennis balls and throw at the cops, bags of feces and urine lobbing golf balls at the copes. etc etc etc....
According to the media, they were just poor victims of police brutality...Now they are all in the government, think of Obama's friends Ayres and Doren, /spelling wrong. I really didn't think the country would survive it was so violent in the cities and colleges, it spread like the plague across the country...
“The liberal media are responsible for charging the race hate and injustice up. All the way up the feeding chain.”
The liberal media use teleprompters, too. They read what they are told.
Mobs will go for the soft side of town. That is where the Lexus and Infnity Liberals reside.
Any attempt to storm the Pick-up neighborhood could cause major blood loss and serious breathing problems.
Apologies to Freepers that might own Lexus or Infinity! :^}
“On September 11, 2011, blacks from the West Coast and the East Coast joined together and signed one of the most comprehensive legal briefs ever prepared on racial discrimination, then filed their brief September 12th, at 9:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time in US District Court in Seattle (Case No. C11 - 1503). The plaintiffs, who refer to the defendants as “Father of Racism,” allege that as an organization, the Democratic Party has consistently refused to apologize for the role they played in slavery and Jim Crow laws and for other subsequent racist practices from 1792 to 2011.”
Thank God for the BRILLIANT, conservative blacks that love this country.
That is our major problem. The 60s 'Hippies' siezed control of the Democrat Party.
I hated those spoiled little rich-kid bastards in the 60s when I had to deal with them every day at school, and I hate them even more now when they have power in government.
All witnesses, including neighbors and police and EMTs and coroner's techs can be questioned in one day. The whole incident unfolded in just a few minutes. There is, essentially, no more information to gather besides what we already know - except, perhaps, the TM's autopsy report (which is likely to tell us nothing.)
IMO, the trial can be all over within a week. The prosecution asserted a bunch of stuff ("profiled", "continued to follow") that would be impossible to prove and quite possible to disprove. Basically, nothing matters among what GZ and TM did prior to the physical altercation. They could look at each other, run away from each other, hide and seek, exchange words... none of that is illegal, and the threshold for stalking is much higher than the prosecutor implies. Otherwise I'd be stalking hundreds of people whenever I go to a grocery store.
>>>>Anything short of a conviction will produce riots. Thats the point. (at least thats what Obama is working towards)
>>A conviction means a riot, too.
It will be the “what flat panel TV am I gittin’!?” riots combined with the “thrash whitey” riots either way.
People smell this. It is part of the reason firearms and ammo sales are through the roof, and why CCWs are approaching 1 in 20 citizens in FL and some other states.
If the riots many black “leaders” are angling for come to pass, there will be plenty of anti-rioting by the general citizenry. People are fed up with this nonsense.
Thanks a lot for that information, granny. That must have been something to witness. Nothing has been the same since then - good news that segregation was dismantled and bad news that the dems just rebuilt a system of hate doctrines and discrimination with a new tanner, Klan and a lighter shade of victim to debase and harm. :(
I’ll bet there are a lot of freepers that remember those times...Agree with you on the hippies of those days...they were just simple flower children to the media, peace brother and all that crap, unless you disagreed with them..the media really hasn’t changed since those days. Leftist to the core...
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