Posted on 07/27/2013 1:33:42 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
With high-profile rap stars like Jay Z speaking on the controversial George Zimmerman verdict earlier this month, Wu-Tang Clan's Raekwon is the latest emcee to reveal his reaction.
In Rae's opinion, the Trayvon Martin family's fate was sealed with the selected jurors not having any compassion or realizing how defenseless the slain 17-year-old was.
"When I heard about the verdict, about the Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman case, I was sad," Rae revealed in an interview. "I was disappointed in the justice system and I felt like they didn't really pay attention to the case the way they were supposed to. The jurors, there were mothers there, and it hurt me to know that they wouldn't even understand the fact that he's still a child. This is a kid right here, this is not somebody that I'm saying, 'Well, he looked the suspicion' or 'He looked like he was carrying [a weapon], he was going to draw on you' or 'He was bigger than you.' This is a kid. He looked like he didn't weigh no more than 120 pounds and you a grown man following him and you must have wanted to be this hero.' And I think within the case, people didn't look at it all the way." (Fuse News)
This week, Jay Z admitted the not guilty verdict hit him extremely hard.
"I was really angry, I didn't sleep for two days. I was really angry about it. We all knew it was still a bit of racism in America but for it to be so blatant, if you just ask yourself the question, 'Didn't Travyon have a right to stand his ground?' He was being chased, he fought back. He may have won. That doesn't mean he's a criminal. He won. If you chase me and you try to attack me and I defend myself, how can I be in the wrong? How is that right? This guy went to get some Skittles and go back to watch the All-Star game. He had plans. 'I gonna get this Arizona, these Skittles, and go watch this game.' ... He had no intentions of robbing anyone's home -- it's a thing where it's like a reminder of, 'We still got a long way to go.' It's beautiful because this generation right now, they don't see color in that way. We're a bit removed from those racist feelings." ("The Truth With Elliott Wilson")
A few days ago, Indiana rapper Freddie Gibbs said the all-female jury could not possibly relate to the struggles of African Americans and especially to the slain teen.
"The defense team was arrogant, stand-offish, talk sh*t to the judge. They did their job. They swayed them six jurors that were on the motherf***ing jury. They swayed them for giving him [Zimmerman] no time," Gibbs said. "Those Jurors must not have a child or something. I thought you supposed to trial a person from n*ggas that's in his peer group? The jurors were like 50-plus, they wasn't from his peer group. They were some old women from Florida. Some old white women from Florida. They didn't give a f**k about Trayvon Martin, his mother, all the cost involved that his family is going through right now. This sh*t is tearing his family apart, and this n*gga just get to walk free? Come on, now." (XXL Mag)
President Barack Obama recently acknowledged the publicized Zimmerman trial and verdict.
"There are very few African-American men who haven't had the experience of walking across the street and hearing the locks click on the doors of cars," Mr. Obama said. "That happens to me--at least before I was a senator." The remarks, delivered without a teleprompter, were a striking example of America's first black president seeking to guide the country's thinking on race without inflaming racial tensions or undermining the judicial system. They also amounted to Mr. Obama's most pointed comments about race since his 2008 presidential campaign. Mr. Obama issued a brief statement the day after the Martin verdict was handed down. He urged calm and compassion, noting that "a jury has spoken." Missing, though, was any personal reflection from a president with a unique perspective on the matter. (Wall Street Journal)
The inner city public school systems. These are people that believe facts should come secondary to feelings. Remember the 2000 Florida voting debacle. There were people who claimed they were confused by the ballot, never mind that they tested that ballot on third graders after wards and they could figure it out, and believed they should have the right to re vote. Not in 2004, but then. Now, if you screw up a ballot, in a normal world you would have to wait till the next election and be more careful. That's the law. However, these are the same people who thought their feelings should override the rule of law.
You're seeing the same thing here
“fighting back” in black thug world means even if a person doesn’t touch you, if you feel “dizrpekted” you are within your right to beat down whitey, or whoever.
See GZ by profiling TM in the world of the violent and mindless DESERVED to be ambushed, sucker punched, and head cracked on the sidewalk.
What can he mean? Seems to me that the ‘persecution’ managed to suppress revelation of the most derogatory stuff about this assailant and still the ladies of the jury found for self defense. I guess Mr. Z should have been allowed (if it proved possible, which it did not) to knock his assailant’s head on the sidewalk... but not shoot?
Self defense as is a old as mankind and very Biblical. It is a reason to kill someone that makes you not guilty.
Their ability to “understand” is directly proportional to the darkness of the media person telling them what happened.
This ‘whatever’ thinks Saint Trayvon was just a little 8 year old boy, like the pictures the media keeps showing. He didn’t get that St T was about 6’2” and 160lbs at time of death. He never seen or heard Trayvon on his twitter or facebook or whatever...
All he believes are the lies he’s been told, and if he did hear the truth, he’d still filter it through a black filter.
Who is this latest clown I never heard of and what expertise has he got that makes his statement germane to the conversation.
First we have to listen to some third rate rapper who doesn’t know $hit from shinola, then we listen to this ignorant brain surgeon, there must be some bum on the street that we could write an article about his feelings on Trayvon.
Trayvon died so his Momma could go around the country with her fake tears inciting other ignorant people. Where were those tears when he was suspended and sent to his daddy and his sperm receptacle.
After reading his comments....My anger has turned to extreme sadness for the Black community. To see a race degenerate is disturbing.
the kid jumped the wrong guy.. why can’t they just accept it and move on.
...why they can't have their own way.
The nigga mentality is ... it's free and I want it,... you owe me, it makes up for yo keep'en the blacks down.
They just be mad that Trayvon, who ambushed his prey and had the tactical advantage, was unable to finish off this cracka.
And they be doubly mad that they, with all their gang, their media, their lying witnesses, their malicious prosecutors, and stealth juror were not able to finish off their lone victim either.
Damn right it's scarey!!
Then my husband took a job 23 years ago that moved us to Outside Detroit and I cried all the way there because I didn't want us to be KILLED!! All this devastation in 39 years....thanks to DEMOCRATS!!
And they be doubly mad that they, with all their gang, their media, their lying witnesses, their malicious prosecutors, and stealth juror were not able to finish off their lone victim either.
I think that sums it up quite well. It was all about 'getting whitey' after all...
They (and by all means, "they" doesn't include all black people, but it does include all that choose to be thugs) just don't want there to be a possible "wrong guy". They want the right to jump anybody they please and have their way with the victim. It's all about "getting even" for perceived "wrongs" that have occurred over the years.
As far as I'm concerned, EVERYBODY should be the "wrong guy". I know that I am, and I know that I WILL use whatever force is necessary to defend myself if it comes to that.
BTW, who is “Rake-One”?
To them everything is about "The Struggle". They would gladly convict Zimmerman without evidence as a step toward overcoming this supposed "Struggle". The Struggle, today, is them being at the bottom of the totem pole in every meaningful category due to their own actions, culture, and genes. As long as they remain at the bottom of the totem pole (and they will), they will continue to presume it's because of discrimination or injustice because they refuse to be introspective and accountable. This leads them to fashion their own discrimination and their own injustice against white people (Zimmermsn becoming a de facto white) as part of "The Struggle" for completely equal outcomes, including imprisonment even though they commit more crimes.
He walked because he had not committed a crime. However, since we in Florida[courtesy of Governor Rick Scott]are currently under the rule of mobs and not the law, the next George Zimmerman might not be as fortunate. Be it as it may, I can’t complain because I voted for the sob. I don’t see things improving as the Democrat alternative will be just as bad as far as catering to the Black mobs go. Its a hellofa mess.
Behave like a dangerous and feral animal, die like one. What part of the trial evidence did these mental midgets, with apologies to midgets, miss? The part where Zimmerman was jumped or the part where Zimmerman was having his head beaten into the sidewalk? The punk deserved his fate. These twits have the mental capacity of three-year olds. Gimme, gimme, gimme. When things do not go the way they want, they pitch screaming fits. As a ‘culture’, they should embrace two words: GROW UP.
Behave like civilized, rational members of society and they will be treated as such.
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