[popdonnelly]

There will be riots and bloodshed, and all the white “progressives” will wring their hands and say, “Oh, what ever shall we do to make it up to these poor blacks!”

[OneWingedShark]

here will be riots and bloodshed, and all the white “progressives” will wring their hands and say, “Oh, what ever shall we do to make it up to these poor blacks!”

And everyone will find out if the past decade of increased gun-sales went to waste.

[danielmryan]

There will be riots and bloodshed, and all the white “progressives” will wring their hands and say, “Oh, what ever shall we do to make it up to these poor blacks!”

I have a little hunch that the Progressives of a century ago excused the racist KKKers on remarkably similar grounds.

"Oh, those people are poor and they're ground down by life. And many of those... [you can fill in this part] ... They almost live to slap down those poor farmers and mountain people."

By extension, my little hunch tells me that those 1950s apologists for poor-urban criminals were building on the earlier apologias for the "poor" KKK.

True fact: the current stereotype of the white Southern male as backward, primitively religious and stupid trailer trash was started and pushed by none other than H.L. Mencken. Southern man (white version) was one of his standard punching bags. The civil-rights people actually built on Mencken's bile, added morals (and moralizing) to it.

[little jeremiah]

Nothing will happen when Zimmerman is acquitted. The various racist groups might try to bus some people in or pay some to protest, but that’s about it. The flashmobs petered out, the Occupukes fizzled; the mob that was all “upset” about the eeeevil Zimmerman have moved onto other things, their attention span is about 10 days max. Plus they’re drinking their purple drank and all zoned out.