Black Folks, It's Time To Stop Taking Care Of White People (see comment rules below article)

blogs.indiewire.com ^ | 7/17/2013 | Tanya Steele

[RoosterRedux]

I post this blog article ONLY because we might learn by understanding how other folks feel and think about the topic of racism.

The article and its comments reveal some shocking ideas.

COMMENT RULES: As we all know, FR doesn't permit any racism, so let's keep our comments free of such stuff.

I leave it to Jim Rob and the mods as to whether they let this post stay or if they prefer to remove it.

[WayneS]

This, writer, really, likes, commas.

[RoosterRedux]

Just a heads-up in case you want to remove this post.

[Perdogg]

Maybe he should hook up with Meghan “commas” McCain.

[Uncle Miltie]

This man could not have been in fear of his life. His head was being banged against the concrete. So what?

[TigersEye]

Trayvon Martin

• Suspended from school for fighting a school bus driver.
• Suspended from school for a baggie with pot dust and stolen jewelery in his backpack.
• Frequently engaged in Fight Club type street fighting.
• Wrote on the internet about getting 'codine' to make some 'fire ass lean.'
• Posted pics of himself smoking pot, sporting gold grills, flipping the bird, holding wads of cash, making gang signs and a gun he was selling.
• Posted explicit remarks about what he wanted to do to 'hos.'
• Posted to a friend that his friend should kill a guy who beat him in a Fight Club fight.
• Posted conversations about the fights he had been in including the fight with the bus driver. No regrets he was proud and boastful of it all.

Act like a thug die like a thug.

[prisoner6]

It’s not just the commas.

We are, most of us, grieving Trayvon Martin’s death, again, after this absurd jury verdict.

Most of us? Really? Prove it. The author is not a journalist but she plays one in her mind.

[PeterPrinciple]

I learned in Sunday School, “whether yellow black or white, we are precious in His site.”

When he can start with that, we can talk about racism but then we won’t have to talk about it anymore will we.

[RoosterRedux]

Since Obama sees Trayvon as his son, I can presume he thinks the same way as the author of this article about race...and so does Holder.

BTW the comments are from folks with very different points of view and many are worth reading.

[Uncle Miltie]

"If I had a son....."

[Kenton]

Black Folks, It's Time To Stop Taking Care Of White People

And it's also time for white people to stop carrying black people.

[caver]

Blacks kill blacks because it’s whites fault. She doesn’t want to take responsibility for anything other than blame whites.

[DYngbld]

I'll take your word for it. I really don't want to get this great "journalist" any more ad revenue.

[1rudeboy]

...how they were stopped by the police, where they were taught how to place their hands on the steering wheel....

Precisely the sort of crap that pisses me off about people who see everything through the prism of race.

When I get pulled-over, I hide my hands because I know the cop won't care. But I'm white. /s

[Arm_Bears]

As a White person, I think it’s well past time that I stopped taking care of Black folks via the redistribution of my hard-earned tax dollars.

[WayneS]

I watched the trial EVERY DAY. EVERY DAY, beginning with jury selection, all of it. I decided I would bear witness for Trayvon no matter how I had to restructure my day. And I did it while reading the law.

At least you admit that you did not watch the trial with an open mind. If you HAD watched the trial with an open mind, instead of just as a personal ego boosting exercise, you would have noticed that the prosecutor failed, miserably failed, to make a case for murder against Mr. Zimmerman.

The verdict had nothing to do with whether white women can "identify" with black children, and everything to do with the fact this was not a case of a 'white' 'man' murdering an 'innocent' 'black' 'child'. In fact, it was apparently a case of a man defending himself against a violent thug.

There. A white person explained it to you.

[Travis McGee]

Thanks. You have to know the other mind.

[RoosterRedux]

Yep. This author permits the issue of racism to obliterate the obvious facts.

She couldn't (or wouldn't) even see the blood on George's faces or bring herself to consider Trayson thuggish behavior in Miami.

It is a kind of zombie-like blindness...which I can only guess is a symptom of the brainwashing that is part and parcel of the victimhood mentality spread in this country by Sharpton and Jackson and many pastors (like Jeremiah Wright).

[Vendome]

Can’t believe the guy actually I thought I would read a tome.

Moreover, the writing wasn’t all that compelling and seemed to more whining.

He also wants us to focus on some lie Zimm told and that makes him guilty.

No sir.

Zimm did not seek out the subject.

Zimm did not initiate physical contact with the intent to harm.

Zimm had no real means or opportunity to run, escape, be a poosy or whatever perjorative you care to use.

Trayvon did those things, knowing his safe haven was mere seconds and yards away.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Charles Blow is the homosexual black man at the New York Times who got the whole "Justice for Trayvon" ball rolling. Not exactly an impartial source. The Curious Case of Trayvon Martin, March 16, 2012 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/17/opinion/blow-the-curious-case-of-trayvon-martin.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 How Pulitzer-winning writer moved Trayvon Martin story from margins to mainstream, April 9, 2012 ---snip--- Like Lee, the other two writers credited for bringing the story into the national spotlight are also African American and male: Charles M. Blow of The New York Times and Ta-Nehisi Coates of The Atlantic. Of the three, Lee is the only news reporter, Blow and Coates are columnists.... http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/making-sense-of-news/169323/how-pulitzer-winning-writer-moved-trayvon-martin-story-from-margins-to-mainstream/