Posted on 07/11/2013 6:34:30 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Imagine the pleasant surprise I encountered after reading the headline “just in case George Zimmerman walks free…” adorning the top of a post composed by hip hop mogul and GlobalGrind.com founder Russell Simmons. It was my hope that Simmons, a respected voice in the black community, would spell out for an attentive audience why pundits preparing their audiences for riots in the wake of a possible acquittal were wrong. Instead, Simmons identified a variety of “victories” that resulted from the killing of Trayvon Martin. He cited setbacks for the National Rifle Association and state-level “Stand Your Ground” laws which he believes the activists who turned the trial into a political proxy war made possible. Simmons’ post is just one of many reckless provocations that have become a lamentably familiar aspect of the coverage of this trial and its “effect of inflaming passions without enlightening,” as National Journal’s Matthew Cooper put it.
But worse than the base impulse to score political points and threaten national comity by implying that one or another cultural worldview is threatened by a verdict in a far-flung murder trial are the pundits and officials readily preparing for – and, in some cases, stoking through innuendo – a violent reaction from African-Americans should the jury find Zimmerman not guilty. What is most striking is that few bristle with offense at the obscene implication that African-Americans will be unable to internalize such an outcome without lashing out in an uncivilized fashion.....
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Hear here! Well and truly stated, sir.
I wonder how they intend to get back out of Florida should this occur.
Soft skinned vehicles within walking distance of your position is not much of an exfil plan....
I wouldn’t be surprised if the plan isn’t to let DHS agents defend their “rides” whilst they are otherwise engaged....
I hate this crap.
It’s 2013 and this kind of thinking out to be assigned to some dustbin fir its anachronistic reach back.
Sad really.
I don’t think of anyone as belonging to some special group.
They have first names, jobs, off hours interests, etc. Maybe even shared interests and values. heck, maybe we think the same things are funny but no, we still have a segment of society with synthetic grievances that most of us don’t indulge in.
Would suggest one part of us grew up and the other failed to launch and fully actualize as equals and participants in regular society.
Sad really.
Not looking forward to next week, which could turn into another interruption of my life for doing nothing more than getting out of bed.
Blacks threaten whites. Blacks gain power. Repeat.
I predict a civil suit by the parent ala OJ Simpson.
Jasper, Texas. That’s when the New Black Panther Party and the Klan Klowns arrived to “help” the community. And where quickly laughed out of town.
As the title says, YES, you racist folks of the mainstream media should be ashamed and held liable if anything like that should happen from your irresponsible reporting. I say this thinking of NBC’s edited version of Zimmermans call to police.
Cocktails in San Francisco. Typical. The far-left city that drove out Blacks by pricing them out.
I guess if any of us suggested that whites riot, pillage and burn if GZ is convicted, we’d be investigated by the feds and jailed for terroristic threats?
You rightly add the sarc tag but that is precisely what fat boy Bekel of The Five believes...and worse, the other four don't correct the idiot! A "normal" person would realize he was in a life threatening situation the instant some maniac sat on top of him and started bashing in his head.
Going into the white community will work in places with tight gun laws. Otherwise, a bad outcome is expected.
PING to Lucy’s post, if you haven’t seen it yet.
I just think all should be very careful to avoid becoming exactly what Obama wants us to be. His desire to stir racial hatred has nothing to do with race and everything to do with his desire for destruction of everything traditionally American.
For our part we should avoid driving blacks away and leave that crap to the party of the Klan. We aren’t going to whip blacks off the plantation, they’ve got to be enticed with true freedom.
"IF" ????
It’s true. i have a lack of faith that the black community as a whole can control their “whitey-hating, substandard IQ level of behavior.”
Exactly. This race-baiting BS needs to be resisted.
I may be off here, but I don’t see blacks attacking the burbs for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that it would hurt the Obama/Holder “gangsterplex”.
The other reason is that the blacks know better than to attack
people who are armed to the gills. Remember when downtown black mobs threatened to come to Simi Valley, CA if the “Rodney King” cops were not convicted? Nobody showed up : )
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