Posted on 07/16/2013 6:29:31 PM PDT by robowombat
The Ugly Truth About Trayvon Martin
by Mychal Massie on July 16, 2013 in Daily Rant, Race & Politics
There is one reason and one reason alone that Trayvon Martin is dead today and that reason is he attacked a man with a licensed firearm who used it. It’s not pretty – it’s not pleasant – but it’s true.
George Zimmerman did not jump (read attack) Martin. Just the opposite. Martin attacked him. All else notwithstanding, Martin jumped Zimmerman for no defendable reason, and he paid the ultimate price for his ill-conceived decision.
George Zimmerman did not kill Martin because of the color of his skin, and it is a damnable lie to claim otherwise. George Zimmerman shot and killed Martin because Martin was attacking and beating him. The ugly truth is just that simple. To raise the specter of skin color and to clothe the event in vestiges of racialization and a zeitgeist of rampant racism is nothing more than an attempt to obfuscate that single, salient truth.
George Zimmerman was a member of his neighborhood watch. The function of a neighborhood watch is to watch and report suspicious and/or unlawful activities taking place in a particular neighborhood. It was dark, it was raining, and Martin appeared to be acting suspiciously. A neighborhood watch volunteer following for purposes of observation and giving the police accurate information is not an assault on color. I submit it is inculcated denial to not recognize this.
The jury might have been prevented from hearing certain facts about Martin, but those of us in the public weren’t. Space doesn’t permit me to detail all in print as I will in on-air interviews, but suffice it to say the figurative exhumation of Martin in the image of Emmett Till is an affront to even the most ignorant of racialists and morally opprobrious in the truest definition, but it’s obviously not out of character for those eager to do same.
Emmett Till was the 14-year-old young man who was brutally murdered and mutilated specifically because of his skin color after he allegedly engaged flirtatiously with a 21-year-old white woman who owned a store in Money, Mississippi.
For Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder to now announce the Department of Justice (DOJ) is opening an investigation to see if Martin’s civil rights were violated by George Zimmerman is cruel irony. Holder refused to have the DOJ investigate much less prosecute one of the most undeniably grievous incidents of civil rights violations since the end of Jim Crow. I’m speaking of the New Black Panthers voter intimidation in Philadelphia, PA in 2008.
I returned home to Florida Saturday after spending some three weeks on the road. About two hours after the jury in the George Zimmerman trial handed down the “not guilty” verdict, as I was exiting my local pharmacy, I overheard a man say, with a degree of sarcasm, to the man with him “They feel if we don’t care about killing ourselves why should they?”
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he man, who happened to be an American of color, was wrong. We (read Americans) do care that blacks are killing themselves in record numbers. It’s those they extol as so-called leaders who do not care. Holder isn’t having the DOJ look into the civil rights of the more than 200 people killed in Chicago so far this year. Jesse Jackson lives in Chicago, but he isn’t leading any marches or protests against the black-on-black murders there. And perhaps it’s out of respect for territory, but Al Sharpton isn’t leading any there either. Sarcasm intended.
A report released by the Bureau of Justice Statistics shows 8,000-9,000 blacks are murdered in the United States each year, and 93 percent of those murders are committed by other blacks.
How many of those families have Obama, Holder, Jackson, Sharpton, or the same media trollops who are fanning the flames of “It’s because Martin was black,” spoken out regarding those ugly statistics?
Those who emphasize that Martin was unarmed should be asked “what if he had been?” If Martin was violent enough to attack and beat George Zimmerman when Martin didn’t have a weapon – what would he have done were he to have had one?
No parents should outlive their children. To do so creates a vacuum of inconsolable loss. And certainly the Martin family is suffering from the loss of their son. But specific to that point, it is a transpicuous and vulgar display of race-mongering by mobocrats who use race as currency to validate their own existence.
Like it or not, agree or not, Martin made a decision to behave like a common street thug and gangsta when he attacked George Zimmerman. That decision speaks volumes about his character, (or lack thereof). There is an attempt to portray Martin as worthy of deification, but I submit that he chose to attack another person for what amounts to no reason at all and that speaks volumes pursuant to his real character.
How many reading this have children who would physically attack someone for the reasons Martin did? I know, without hesitation, that my son wouldn’t. The ugly truth is that Martin was given to the violent mentality of thinking he could bully a white person, and it cost him his life.
There is a distinct possibility that the voters have permanently crossed to the dark side enumerated above (to which list other items could be added), allowing the Demonrats to put us (and the US) on an irreversible path to decline and fall. There may be people alive today who may live to see it happen. Sorry for my pessimism.
“Had Tracy Martin stayed home with his troubled teen son and not trusted him so much, he’d still be alive.”
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Maybe, but not at all certain.
Byron De La Beckwith was acquitted of the assassination of Medger Evers by an all white jury (loaded with southern democrats).
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but Beckwith had another trial a couple of years ago and was found GUILTY
so there has been a major change...
Byron De La Beckwith was acquitted of the assassination of Medger Evers by an all white jury (loaded with southern democrats).
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BTW Evers was a good hard working man who was standing innocently in his own driveway...
he never attacked Beckwith
Zimmerman had a valid concealed carry permit, did he not? (As I recall, that was brought out during the trial.) What other "license" would be required for him to carry the weapon?
I wonder if the following would reduce racial tensions: George Zimmerman holds a press conference and says something like, “I don’t know how anyone got the idea I was white. I’m brown as can be, with the background to prove it, and — despite what La Raza seems to think — I’m Hispanic.”
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
replacing him with Rachel would be a step forward and upward...
why waste Rachels valuable time with 4 years of college ???
30 years later but yeah. Fact is, black people have never had more opportunity than they do today yet they still manage to have a disproportionately higher incidence of poverty, unemployment, high school drop outs, teen pregnancies, STDs, incarceration, etc. It can’t be the fault of the Democratic party obviously so it must be the fault of white men, the same kind of white men that acquitted that other white man, George Zimmerman of murdering that innocent angelic 12 year old black boy who dreamed of being an airline pilot someday. :gagwithspoon
I wouldn’t argue otherwise.
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George Zimmerman was not guilty, legally or morally. He was declared "NOT GUILTY" by the facts and by a fair jury of honorable citizens who refused to be bullied by the prosecutors and the comedic judge.
A just verdict was given. What it could not do, and President Obama ought to have done, was to declare Zimmerman innocent and Martin guilty of his own demise.
Obama did not have the character or the guts to set the record straight, which would have greatly worked to defuse the fractiousness of deliberately deluded millions. Instead, he further poured more verbal accelerant on the fires of a riotous crowd mindset.
Had Trayvon finished what he started, he would have slain George, and would by now have been arrested, tried, and found "GUILTY" of premeditated murder.
As Obama said (rightly?) "Trayvon Martin could have been my son." Was he right, characterwise?
The permit is for concealed carry, not for owning and certainly not for the handgun.
Florida does not require a “license” to own or possess a firearm. The permit is only required if you wish to carry it on your person.
Why waste a college's 4 years of valuable time with Rachel?
Tracy Martin left home with his girlfriend, leaving Travon alone for the night, expecting his seventeen year old son who he knows is having discipline problems not to do anything stupid. Trayvon immediately defies his father after his back is turned, and goes out to buy ingredients to get high.”””’
Tracy Martin left home with his girlfriend, leaving Travon alone for the night, expecting his seventeen year old son who he knows is having discipline problems not to do anything stupid. Trayvon immediately defies his father after his back is turned, and goes out to buy ingredients to get high....
All True.
However-—Let’s take it back a few days.
IF Trayvon Martin hadn’t been behaving badly in school—for a repeated time of disciplinary problems....
IF Trayvon Martin hadn’t been caught with burglary tools & jewelry he could not explain in his backpack......
IF Trayvon Martin hadn’t punched a bus driver.....
He never would have been in Sanford in the first place.....
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OK. I read your post as implying that GZ was doing something wrong by having an ‘unlicensed’ gun. My error.
B t t t
New York State (and I believe Illinois) requires at least a premises permit for each handgun purchased and kept at home or in a business. Florida is one of many states that does not require a permit to possess a handgun.
Carrying such a gun is a felony in NY or FL. Most states require that a person be licensed to carry a deadly weapon concealed. Vermont requires neither for an adult, IIRC.
Handgun possession and carry across the US is a state-by-state patchwork quilt of some very threatening statutes. For sure, avoid possessing or giving an LEO any hint of transporting a gun in NJ.
Just a quick note, when reading an interview by the young lady talking to TM then night he died, she said 2 very interesting things in the same interview. The first was that she encouraged TM to run, but he would not, because his brother was at home and this person “Might be a rapist”, in fact there was nobody at home, he was alone for the evening with his Father out on a date with the woman who owned the Condo, which they both were visiting. Second what the comment about the white A@@ cracka, which she defined as a cop wannabe, or a security guard. WHAT??? Thi means that TM KNEW that GM was acting in the capacity of a Neighborhood Watch, security guard, or cop wannabe, not as a person who was seeking to harm him. TM could have gone straight to the condo, and none of this would happen. Rather, he was afraid, and decided to confront his fear, not with conversation, rather with attack. As the dispatcher told GZ that he did not need to follow TM, he turned around to return to his truck. As he started back, abandoning the search, rather to wait for the police car that was in route, He was ATTACKED by TM, the rest, sadly is history.
My final point is towards the behavior by those who did not agree with the Jury decision, and have embarked on harming innocents in TMs name. A sane question would be, what would this encourage would be victims to do...the answer is one they may not have considered. With random beat downs, knock out games, etc. I see an armed citizenry more ready than ever thought, ready to no longer be silent victims... When you take the path of mob rule and lawlessness, you may pay a higher price than you planned.
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