Posted on 07/15/2013 6:10:55 AM PDT by shortstop
It wasn’t about Trayvon.
It was about Zimmerman.
Specifically, it was about Zimmerman’s skin.
It was white.
That’s what caused the upset, that’s what drove the charges, that’s what brought the trial.
As the president – the same president who conjectured that his own son would have looked like Trayvon – urges us to calm and reflection, we should calmly reflect upon what made this incident unique.
Sadly, it was not the shooting death of a young black man.
There is nothing unique about the shooting death of a young black man. That tragedy plays out with predictable regularity as urban America genocides itself.
The crocodile tears about the loss of Trayvon and all the years and adventures life had ahead of him don’t ring true. It does not seem likely that many beyond the poor lad’s family and friends would be particularly perturbed by his death.
I say that based on how we respond to all the others.
All across urban America, young black men’s lives are snuffed out daily. You don’t hear Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson saying much about them. There are seldom calls for prosecutions – there is seldom cooperation with police investigating the slayings.
The shameful fact is that the steady stream of slain black men is ignored by almost everyone.
So why this one?
Why do we know this one’s name?
Certainly, the others are as loved by family and friends as was Trayvon, and many are as innocent, and many are more so.
What was different about this killing?
Zimmerman’s skin.
The only variable is that Zimmerman is white.
Kind of.
His white status was assigned by the press, contrary to his own self-identification as Hispanic, but he’s white.
From a genetic standpoint, Zimmerman is just as Hispanic as the president is black. From a cultural standpoint, he’s more so. The president, after a boyhood in Indonesia, was raised in a white home in a white community. Zimmerman was raised in an Hispanic neighborhood by a mother whose English is still heavily accented with Spanish.
But to fit the narrative of the activists and the press, and to galvanize the black vote in an important election year, he needed to be white.
So white he was.
Countless young black men lose their lives to violence, overwhelmingly at the hands of other young black men, and nobody seems to notice. Jesse doesn’t come to town, Al doesn’t pound the pulpit, the president doesn’t speak from the Rose Garden.
America, including black America, looks the other way.
But not this time.
And that illustrates the hypocrisy and double standard of current American race relations.
It wasn’t love for Trayvon and whatever metaphor he represented that drove some to such upset, it was bigotry against the race of the Neighborhood Watch volunteer who shot him.
If Zimmerman hadn’t been white, there wouldn’t have been any charges in this case and there certainly wouldn’t have been a trial. And even if this mythical non-white Zimmerman were to have been arrested and tried, no one would have noticed.
Because countless trials and plea bargains go on each day. And not a one of them moves the needle.
It wasn’t solidarity with Trayvon, it was antipathy for Zimmerman. Astoundingly, large portions of the population – particularly large portions of the black population – ignore the holocaust against young black men.
And that’s what this case should point up.
There is an ongoing slaughter of young black men, overwhelmingly by other young black men, and the destruction of life is horrifying.
That’s the issue.
Not respect for hoodies.
Not rolling back self-defense laws.
Not getting more money for civil rights groups or building careers for politicians and activists.
Trayvon is the exception, legions of other young black men are the rule.
It is immoral to exploit his death and ignore theirs. And it is immoral to pretend that his death represents a great societal threat while theirs does not. Trayvon has been a diversion, exploited by activists, reporters and a president. A diversion from the troubles facing our country, and from the butchery of a rising generation by black-on-black violence.
So let’s face the facts.
If we truly care about those who are slain or endangered. If we truly want to keep more young black men alive. If we are going to be honest, we need to recognize that the greatest threat to these lads is not people like George Zimmerman.
It’s people like themselves.
People who look like the president’s son, if he had one.
This is a well-written article.
Precisely.
I can’t believe how much HATE there is in this country, all based on purposefully false racism, and a paranoid radical racist mindset from black “leaders” and white “enablers”.
The Zimmerman trial was an example of Soviet “people’s justice” The prosecutors and the judge were left wing hack political apparatchiks and were following orders. The only thing that saved Zimmerman was that they were at least this time unable to stack or intimidate the jury.
Obama is the most divisive President in the nation’s history.
It’s people like themselves.
About that 'honest' discussion that Eric Holder alluded to?????
Do any of Team Witch and the 3 Flying Monkeys carry?
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In 513 Days Between Trayvon Dying and the Zimmerman Trial Verdict, 11,106 Blacks Have Been Murdered by OTHER BLACKS
Not only “white” skin, but they thought they had a Jew. That triggered most of the reaction before all the facts became known, in my not-so-humble opinion.
Satan is diligently pursuing his work.
Until the verdict, non white people just had to let blacks do whatever they wanted to
Now it is plain if a thug is attacking you you can fight him no matter what hue he is
The jurors did something that wasn't written in the script.
Hadn’t thought of that, but, the big picture, and I mean THE BIG PICTURE, is that the people of the world/Satan HATE the people of God - and “Zimmerman” sure sounds like one of God’s people.
Add to that the possibility of delegitimizing self-defense from thuggery, and you have a very popular case.
Everything I hate about Bob Lonsberry’s writing style seems to have gotten worse.
If racial unrest follows Zimmerman jury decision, blame it on Activist Obama
Saturday, July 13, 2013 12:08:14 PM · 18 of 26
mosesdapoet to rktman
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3042477/posts
This is reference to an editorial run in Canada Free Press. The Canadians got it right.! Too bad half of the so called conservatives talk show hosts I’ve been listening to can’t seem to be willing to connect the dots to what a heavy hand his imperious highness played in this example of socialist justice meted out to serve the policies of the state . Turning this into a show trial replete with wall to wall tv coverage.
.For certain since the not guilty verdict has been rendered the facts of this case are still being concealed by the media such as pictures of both side by side they look like cousins. The mixed area that Zimmerman was a “watch captain” in was struggling with single and groups of young blacks on the prowl.,In some instances armed, preying on homeowners.in his area..That area wasn’t even examinined because it wouldn’t fit their agenda.. Which if done ,if true journalisim existed, because that might explain his action of surveilance . In many watch areas that’s done frequently when the subject disappears from view.
Even after learning the shooter was a staunch Obama supporter, not Jewish, and a very dark skinned “hispanic” Obama did nothing to curtail the hyperbole or tone down his edict creating this as a racist episode. The socialists controlling the media propaganda machine oblidged.. They began claiming the neighborhood watch captain was a “white hispanic” .or used a picture of a 12 year old Martin instead of the 6 foot 165 pound person he was vs the smaller 140 pound neighborhood watch captain. Worse yet allowed his US Attorney General to use questionable activities to promote a show trial and ignored using a threat of prosecution to black militant groups threatening the watch captain’s life.
Meanwhile attacks by black groups on selected happless white victims which wind in their death get ignored by the mainline socialist messengers MSM service and black on black killings many of the age of the so called victim is likewise same-o same-o.
But it does demonstrate that the term “liberal” should not be applied to todays MSM . These are die hard socialists incapable of independent thinking. Designing their propaganda into a political campaign disguised as “news” to advance whatever the cause is edicted by their leader and goose-stepping in unison to that command.
Spot on analysus. Tried to avoid the subject with a black friend on saturday before the verdict. He was not ready to except the overwhelming evidence supporting self defence.
Just kept saying an unarmed seventeen year old left the house and did not come back. He didnt come back because he
use very poor judgement in asaulting an armed individual.
Ahhh, fresh air... sad how many prefer the smells of the gutter...
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