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)
Dear Blacks.....If you don’t want whites to lock their doors when they see you, STOP COMMITTING HEINOUS CRIMES!!!
Who?
It’s not like the subjectivity has any beneficial yield within the Black community where intra-racial crime tops all demographics. Exponential pride.
St Skiddels didn't even know!!! Trademark though he had won. He stunned, he tackled, he pounded! A few more seconds and George would have DIED!
That article is so full of profound statements and deep thinking, I’ll probably be days composing my thoughts with various reflective thinking exercises. I may even have to consult the works of Plato and Socrates in order to do justice to giving the expressed philosophies proper consideration. It’s obvious that we’re in the presence of undiscovered greatness.
/s (should be obvious but just in case...)
Take your time, we’ll still be here.
“he fought back”. I stopped reading there. He didn’t fight back, he initiated the fight and punched Zimmerman square in the face breaking his nose. “Rae Z” (whatever the F that means) doesn’t seem to realize that George is a short squat heavy-set man, he is HISPANIC. Trayvon was a tall lanky 17 muscular teenager that may or may not have been intoxicated on “lean” or something else, that had a reputation for being a street scrapper.
You do not have the right to assault someone and possibly cause brain trauma on them because they are following you because they suspect you of committing crimes in a GATED COMMUNITY. Someone that person has NEVER seen before. Trayvon had zero right to turn around and then follow Zimmerman back to his SUV and beat the living hell out of him, if it hadn’t stopped maybe possibly KILLING HIM.
If it had been me in Trayvon’s shoes, I would have turned around flipped my hoodie off and politely asked what the problem was. Zimmerman would have said he thought I was suspicious, and that he had called the police. I would have been angry and irritated but I would have patiently waited for the police while explaining what I was doing there. Cops would have come, and most likely have let me go, after my friend or whoever I was staying with verified that I had a legit reason to be there, police would have let me go, and no harm done.
If Zimmerman had not shot Trayvon it’s possible that Trayvon would have gotten the gun and shot and killed Zimmerman. If Zimmerman hadn’t had a gun he could have faced brain trauma, coma, concussion, possibly death. From Trayvon’s past history I don’t believe he would have stopped. He was acting out of blind racist aggression “creepy ass cracker”. Instead of Zimmerman losing his life, or being crippled or vegetative for the rest of it, he killed Trayvon who would have spent the rest of his life or most of it in prison, having ruined Zimmermans.
So instead of 2 lives being completely ruined, one was cut short, and the other is being demonized by a minority of the country and the MSM, and current administration.
Yes it sucks for Trayvon, his family, and other loved ones. For them it is a tragedy that they have to come to understand, and that must be hard for them. But it was Trayvon’s fault, this could have been just a 15 minute wait and chat with the police and he could have gone on his way, if he wasn’t so aggressive.
I feel no pity for Trayvon, I do pity Zimmerman though who is being unjustly accused and dragged through the mud by people who should BE supporting him and the jury’s decision to acquit. That should have been the end of this.
TLDR: Trayvon wasn’t defending himself, he caused his death, and started the altercation that led to it. Zimmerman was a victim, and is being victimized by the government and the majority of news outlets.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3047862/posts?page=20#20
Please note, he wants to focus attention away from the fight and onto innuendo and alleged provocations.
It’s a jury of the defendant’s peers, not the victim’s, Mr. No-Info-Voter.
I keep hearing Martin was only armed with Skittles—sure, Skittles and two willing-and-able fists.
They will say anything they can think of to justify the vicious assault Traydown carried out on GZ. They will always ignore the evidence and facts.
Facts are old school, this is new school... what crap.
“The jury can’t relate to the struggles....” meaningless. This is not about the historic struggles of the black man, this is about what happened between Traydown and GZ, and only that.
In addition, he accuses the jurors of not understanding the case when they sat there day in and day out in the court room, took notes and deliberated for 16 1/2 hours. It is he, the low information, ignorant person who doesn’t understand the FACTS of the case.
The race baiters thought there should have been blacks on that jury. We all know that if there had been - they would have voted for race and not on the facts of the case.
Where do these ignorant, low-information people come from?
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Ignorant ignoramouses.
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.Did you post this under “Humor?"
”Fate was sealed?” You mean, “prospects brightened?"“Compassion?” Sending a man to prison for his wife’s childbearing life woulda been compassionate?”“Helpless?” The person who had and maintained the initiative and dominant position throughout the fight he himself started - up to the very moment Zimmerman reversed the situation with a shot - was “helpless?”
QUACK...QUACK....QUACK QUACK QUACK..
I’m see a real disconnect here between blacks and their ability to understand the jury had to follow the rule of law.
They all seem to have wanted the jury to throw our the law and vote their “heart”, their “feelings”.
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