for the sake of EQUALITY allow me to present the other "veiwpoint"
sometimes words are not sufficient....not that we'd want to HEAR some of them...anyway
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.
The jury was that of six WOMEN, who spent over three weeks diligently taking notes, and listening intently to the prosecution and the defense witnesses and lawyers, all day long. They were sequestered from their families, and they went into a room and decided upon a verdict after debating for 16 hours. They worked together, whilst people, who had already judged George Zimmerman, year and a half ago, chanted and waved signs accusing him and calling for his head, outside of the court house. If the verdict had been reversed, they would have danced in the streets. They would not have questioned their decision. These were brave, intelligent women. Mothers. This case was brought about by so many interest groups using it to promote their own agendas. This was NOT A civil rights case. This was NOT a case based on racial hatred. This was NOT a case about whether or not a man should be allowed to carry a concealed weapon. This was NOT a case about whether or not the 'stand your ground' law in Florida is right or wrong. This case was about whether or not a man, who was legally carrying a concealed weapon, acted in self defense. Now, the verdict has been heard, the same people spouting about all of the above issues, will continue their play on their individual agendas. Obama and Eric Holder, will use it to re ignite the argument about guns and the laws pertaining to them. The NAACP will use it to promote civil rights issues, and pathetic little folk, like Al Sharpton et al, who have no talent, but are useful to the media, to keep around, will continue to make boat loads of money, doing the only thing that they know how, riling up black Americans and continuing to divide the country deeper. All of these people, and/or their agencies, are very rich. They have hung/ clung to the race card for years and will never let it go, because it is what puts bread on their tables. It is a very lucrative business.
The firearm was not licensed. Otherwise the author doesnt seem too bad.
Great article and comment
They’re already trying to frame Zimmerman for something else:
George Zimmerman May Head Back to Court to Face Molestation Charges
http://blackamericaweb.com/146032/george-zimmerman-molestation/#.UeRnbkzx_Do.twitter
The thug community needs its nose rubbed in it until they get the message. BTW, thugs come in all colors.
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. He gets noticed by Zimmerman and decides to attack the only person who knows he is outside the house, not where he is supposed to be. Had Tracy Martin stayed home with his troubled teen son and not trusted him so much, he'd still be alive.
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?
Sooner or later, if America gets lucky, someone is going to stand up and shout, "Hey, wait a minute! Black lives are worth protecting! Let's stop throwing them away!"
Because he wouldn't get out of the middle of the street and walk on the sidewalk.
No wait, it's because he wouldn't be quiet in the theater.
No wait, it's because he was wearing a disguise and acting suspiciously in a neighborhood with a recent spate of crime.
No, it must be because his pants were hitched below his knees.
The thug life is full of violence and death, if someone chooses it, then they have one foot in an early grave already.
Don’t start a gunfight if you don’t have a gun.
Yes they do. I live in a good neighborhood non-minority neighbor of mine had a 19 year old non-minority son who went with 3 non-minority friends to burglarize a house in another part of the county for the second time in a few weeks. My neighbor’s son went through the jimmied window of the darkened house first. He was greeted with a blast from a 12 guage 00 buck shot round in the chest from the homeowner. Died instantly. His 3 accomplises fled but were caught and are serving time as accomplises to murder. Home owner has not had anymore unexpected guests. The 19 year old grew up here and was a good kid until he moved out and went to live with his birth father.
The reality is, however, by voting for Democrats, all they'll find is higher than the national average poverty, unemployment, incarceration, drug addiction, high school drop out rates, teen pregnancies, welfare dependency, etc.
I guess it's pretty hard to cram a 30.06 in your belt or back pocket.
Brown, Hispanic, partly black person. Though even La Raza seems to think Zimmerman was white, white had nothing to do with it. Perhaps egged on by his female friend Jeantel, Martin was a thug, through and through, and paid the price.
Good summary.
Zimmerman’s ‘racial identity’ is view with amusement here in south Louisiana. He is what is known locally as a ‘creole’. Someone who is mostly European descent but with a admixture of Negro and maybe Indian. Let’s put it this way. Mr. Zimmerman in 1960 would only have entered the now defunct Brennan’s Restaurant through the service entrance. The closest he would have gotten to table service was in busing the tables and moving up to waiter after a few years.
George Zimmerstein?
Holder and Corey are disgraces
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