But, in ghetto culture, the worst thing you can do to someone is “diss” or disrespect them. Trayvon felt dissed by Zimmerman. So, the liberal view is that Zimmerman provoked Trayvon, even if Trayvon threw the first punch. And to ghetto dwellers, you have to react to being dissed with violence. That’s just part of Trayvon’s ghetto upbringing.
I haven’t heard anyone else describe it this way, but that’s part of what is going on here.
I bet you would be hard pressed to find someone here who didn’t understand that aspect of this case...
I hope the jurors do as well, and not embrace it, but abhor it.
It is. TM was offended that "creepy-assed cracker" was watching him. Apparently nobody ever explained to him that when you go into someone else's neighborhood that has a Neighborhood Watch, you might be watched.
Next question is "Who's job was it to do that, and why didn't they do it?"
A week or so Geraldo explained his theory of why Aaron Hernandez allegedly killed someone who had disrespected him, as a result of his being a product of the ghetto culture. Unfortunately he is so wedded to the template of innocent Trayvon/guilty Zimmerman that he can’t see that Trayvon’s behavior fit his theory of Hernandez’ behavior.
QED, well said.
It’s something like the scene in the movie ‘Goodfellas’ where the restaurant owner gives Joe Pesci’s character his overdue tab, and gets a wine bottle broken over his head for disrespecting him in front of his buddies.
Anything anyone does that a gangsta doesn’t like is dissing him:
“Why won’t you give me your wallet/wife/life? Why you dissin’ me?”
George simply decided he wasn’t going to let this thug beat him to death so he could burnished his street cred. One less punk to make Jesse Jackson nervous ...
Not only that, but IMHO, some people perceive that it's far worse to shoot someone who is enforcing the law of the street (by pummeling a person who dissed him) than would be shooting some random guy simply for being black.