Posted on 08/10/2013 7:32:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The issue is beyond race and Floridas Stand Your Ground law. George Zimmermans fear of Trayvon Martin led to murder and his acquittal. Since fear for his life, even if unreasonable, allowed Zimmerman to walk free. Then, what of other fear-based prejudices?
Last year, in Jacksonville, FL, Jordan Davis, 17, African American, and unarmed, was killed in a mall parking lot, while sitting in his car. Michael David Dunn, 46, White, claims Davis pointed a shotgun after Dunn told Davis to turn down his music. Dunn shot his 9mm into Davis car and sped away. Now charged with first degree murder, Dunn relies on Floridas Stand Your Ground law, pleading self-defense. His trial begins in September.
A few days ago, in Escambia, FL, Roy Middleton, 60, African American, and unarmed, was searching his mothers car for cigarettes when police approached, guns drawn. Police began firing even after Middleton complied with requests to put up his hands. Middleton survived a barrage of shots fired at close range. Although police suspected Middleton of trying to steal the car they have yet to explain why they shot him.
Two weeks ago, in Milwaukee, WI, John Henry Spooner, 77, White, was given a life sentence for the murder of Darius Simmons, 13, African American, and unarmed. Darius was shot by his neighbor after Spooner accused Darius of robbing his home. When Darius, who had been at school that day, denied the theft Spooner shot the boy in the chest and again in the back.
Pointing to a high rate of Black-on-Black crime is a ready response to these Society-on-Black crimes. Black-on-Black crime is an important but separate issue. It is separate because all crimes are primarily intra-racial. This is so among Whites, Latinos, and Asians. Poverty-ridden communities, no matter their race, will have high crime rates.
Inter-racial crimes, specifically White-on- Black murders, have a long history in America. This Trayvon/Zimmerman verdict is about acquitting a man who committed murder based on an irrational fear of a Black boy. Taken in its best light this Zimmerman illogic implies if it scares you than there is a legal right to shoot it. Such a result allows anyone to shoot the object of their fears, even irrational fear, without question or consequences.
Irrational fears from aliens to zombies could support a murder acquittal. Consider those who fear that lower-class woman wearing an NRA t-shirt driving a dented pick-up truck. If there is a confrontation over a parking space, barking dog, or grocery price she is likely armed and dangerous. It could be your life or hers unless you shoot first.
Men on motorcycles riding a roaring hog with long hair and leather jackets may raise fear in the mom driving a minivan. If this motorcycle-riding free spirit is not wearing a helmet then they could be considered reckless, trouble-makers. Why wait to know if he is asking directions; shoot first. A jury will understand.
To some, men with beards can be frightening. Beards or mustaches can be considered suspicious and a sign of an untrustworthy character. Rarely seen on television, bearded men are not allowed in power positions like Wall Street, politics, television news, or business. Therefore, bearded men may require fatal force in any confrontation.
As with Trayvon Martins hoodie, certain attire can induce fear. Women shielded by hijabs or scarves. Jewish men wearing yarmulke, Rastafarian, Nazirite and Sikh men who could frighten anyone unaware their religious law forbids haircuts. Of course, frightening people include anyone possibly resembling a Muslim, in any manner, whatsoever.
Black men, under this fear test, should arm themselves against unwarranted attacks by fear mongering Zimmerman-types obsessed with delusions of African male prowess or cowered by unsubstantiated racial prejudices. It will not stop there. Zimmermans acquittal means summary annihilation. Soon, fear-laden fatalities will not be limited to unarmed Black teenagers.
Black people in America are like the canary in the coal mine, says Harvard Professor Lani Guinier. A sick canary predicts deadly trouble in the mine below. The fate of African Americans can reveal the future of others in America. Soon, everyone is Trayvon.
White men with tattoos become Trayvon. Tourists speaking a foreign language. An inter-racial group of students. Drivers of trucks bearing confederate flags. The homeless. Drunk neighbors. Tall people. Weight-lifters. Catholic priests. Playground bullies. Gays. Vegetarians. Nudists. Bossy relatives. The disabled. Outliers of any kind.
When Ida B. Wells-Barnett, a 20th century activist and journalist, studied the lynching of Black men she discovered European immigrants were also among the over 4,000 lynched men, women, and children. Today, irrational fear has led to 9mm lynchings.
Diversity is Americas greatest strength. If xenophobia a fear of outsiders remains a rationale for murder then this nation has no future. We are all strangers to someone.
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Gloria J. Browne- Marshall, an Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at John Jay College in New York City, is author of Race, Law, and American Society: 1607 to Present, and a writer covering the U.S. Supreme Court as well as major legal issues.
Just another race pimp cashing in.
Screw Trayvon and the skittles he slid on.
I think I'm actually more of a Zimmerman. Not that I'm particularly Peruvian. Or particularly white. It's a justice, rule-of-law thing. You might not understand.
White people fight back against anyone and everyone who try to rob or kill them.
They don’t make any exceptions for anyone, of any race, even their own.
It’s a “white culture” thing that all black, brown, yellow red, and mixed race people need to learn how to respect, adapt and deal with, and/or completely avoid.
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Too many on both sides are playing with the truth of the Zimmerman trial.. The regime and the media set the premise for the trial narrative and their presentations ignoring the setting where the incident took place..An area having a “Neighborhood Watch”. If some of those so called conservative talk show hosts had interviewed guests who run such watches they would have exposed the regime and the media for the frauds they are. Particularly a “gated” neighborhood watch.When you enter one of these and start wandering around no matter if you are white, blue, red, green, or black. You can be asked your purpose for being there. You are on private property. And yes those on patrol can and do leave their vehicle and follow on foot if they lose sight of the person they’re observing..That’s the Watch Captain’s who is really a security guard’s job. .
Its the second time the President of the United States has interjected himself into a confrontation between those in authority on legal grounds reasonably questioned and released someone involved in a curious activity in a patrolled area. Could this attitude be based from the idealized communist concept that there is no such thing as “private” property because the state (collective) owns the land ? .
In both cases those representing authority were reported as white . In the second case the person working security was attacked while on private rights of way while on foot discontinued an observation and was returing to his vehicle after being so instructed by the police to do so thus allowing the person to continue on their way.unimpeded But who then doubled back and attacked the neighborhood watch worker who was returing to his vehicle beating him severly on the ground in which the attacker was subsequently killed in a struggle over the Neighborhood Watchman’s legal pistol.
In the second case both were dark skined.
Since the Zimmernan not guilty verdict has been rendered, the facts of this case are still being shamefully being concealed by the media to the extent they are advancing and are complicit in permitting a putrid injstice to be committed of the worst order,organized and instituted by our governent.While denied. It began as a miscalculation when a surname of a Jewish origin shot up and lighted the heavens like a star shell in the darkest of nights. It would have been difused if the media used pictures of both side by side because they look like cousins. And the area where this occured of paycheck to paycheck struggling homeowners of all races trying to protect themselves had been reported and not some ritzy all white enclave.they portrayed..Worse yet the media is still pilling it on with ABC editing a a black jury members (remember when they were all white)t remarks to make it sound like she accused Zimmerman of murder .
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3048225/posts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3048631/posts
The result as we have seen is that another marxist axiom (division) has been implemented which has resulted with gangs of black youths murdering happless whites who happen into areas usually where a black population is the majority. Those media outlets who by their delberate misuse of the instrument of the 1st amendment are just as complicit in those deaths as the regime is. They have the duty but not the obligation to report factualy
The democrat party that hypenated itself from God at their 2012 convention into demo-coms, and believe that all groups should be hyphenated , Afro-American, Hispanic-American, etc..Decided Zimmerman to be the egg that is to be broken,. sacrificed, so that we have an omlet..Just like Stalin did to the Ukrainian land owners known as Kulacks whom he executed, (and used that egg example) in a soclal engineering plan to organize collectives during a Russian drought..Because as we have learned there seems to be the intention to use a collective data base to create collectives. Where a utopia of uniforimity of conformity exists. As was done in Detroit, and Oakland California.only this time a poor whitey or blacky wont be able to move,.
Just as with the energy plan where the cost of fuel used for energy and transportation and that includes raising the price of transporting gas and oil by rail, that favors a key contributer while the regime has been recently ridiculing the impact the completion of a pipeline, has skyrocketed those costs. Placing many on fixed or limited incomes dependent on government handouts. Resulting from this regimes socialist policies which go blameless.
Now call for the sacrifice of Zimmerman who must die for another communist plan.. We all move together in centers designed and approved by comrades running the collective who (just like Obamacare arent in it) wont ever live there.
What should the Rebuttal and counter charge be ?
Why is this being done ? To cover up Bengahzi, Fast and furious, IRS, Wind and Solar panel gate, NSA spying on US, Over-riding the constittution? Those are blamed on others .But not who accompaines Obama on his many trips around the world at taxpayer expence ? Were they the heavy hitters or their friends holding the presidents hand ? Never looked into either by the House and certainly not even speculated about or reported on by the media. Seems like that could be considered pay back at US taxpayer expence. Isnt that an impeachable offense ?
Now if somebody even suggests impeachment. What better way to discourage any investigation into malfeasance and corruption than by organizing the base for riots in the streets ? As the few whites and hispanics are being maimed and murdered for the cause. While the leadership of the political opposition wallow in the wilderness searching for a “demographic” message.
Rather than morn their son’s death they trademarked his name and hired a PR company.
What more needs to be said?
morn = mourn
What??
Stand You Ground didn't get him off??
Sounds like the author ran out of examples of the whites massacring Blacks and getting off scot free by SYG.
Sooner or later, if the US doesn’t just split up, these people are going to have to be deprogrammed.
Since fear for his life, even if unreasonable, allowed Zimmerman to walk free. Then, what of other fear-based prejudices?Prejudices, y'know, like the prejudice against being physically attacked and having your head beaten against the ground? Racist Media Demagogue ping.
Can I sue them for saying I’m Trayvon?
Perhaps the most depressing aspect here is that students are facing huge tuition bills only to be subjected to drivel like this from “professors” such as this blithering idiot.
Allow me to retort:
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Upset about a racial name-calling that occurred earlier that night, several black men savagely beat a random white man who had had nothing to do with the incident. He slipped away from his attackers, but they forced him to swim into a lake to escape. He drowned. The three men were sentenced to less than a year in jail.
Massachusetts. Four black men decided to murder the next white person they saw. That unlucky soul was a college student from Boston, whom the men stabbed to death.
Indiana. A black man was arrested for killing seven white people with a shotgun. He explained that he murdered his victims due to his deep-rooted hatred of white people.5 Miami, Florida. The leader of a black supremacist sect (i.e., the Yaweh ben Yaweh cult) was convicted of the murders of several white people. He ordered his followers to kill any and all white devils. They killed at least seven white people, bringing back body parts to their leader.
North Carolina. Seven black men kidnapped a white woman, raped her, put her in a tub of bleach, shot her five times, and dumped her body. The murderers said they did this for racial reasons.
North Carolina. Four black teenagers lured a white, ten-year-old girl into an empty house. There, they sodomized her, strangled her with a cable wire, and beat her to death with a board. In the past few weeks, the trials in the Tiffany Long case have received extensive coverage in the North Carolina press. But with two of the three defendants already sentenced to lifelong prison terms, and the third now standing trial, the national media have all but ignored the story. Only the Associated Press has reported on the trials, in a single, cursory piece. The AP, of course, failed to mention the race of the people involved an oversight it seldom if ever committed in the case of Amadou Diallo.
Boulder, Colorado. After discovering that one of their members had never had intercourse with a white woman, an Asian gang went looking for one. When they found a white University of Colorado student, the six men gang raped her in their minivan for two hours. At their trial, Detectives described the womans night of terror, including repeated threats to kill her.The woman leaped out of the minivan after one of the men raped her. Naked, she sprinted across Lefthand Canyon Road before Steve Yang tackled her, authorities said.They were all screaming at her, calling her names and hitting her, Detective Jane Harmer testified.Yang put her in a headlock and dragged her back into the van, where she was raped repeatedly, Harmer said.It was a free-for-all, Harmer testified.One man threatened to cut and burn her, and another put a gun barrel to the back of her head when they released her, Harmer said.
Kansas City, Missouri. An Ethiopian immigrant shot two white coworkers killing one and critically injuring the other at his workplace, then turned the gun on himself. At his residence, police found a three-page, signed note he had written in which he railed at black blood sucker supreme white people for oppressing him and black people in general.
New York City. In a Midtown office building, a white woman was assaulted, raped, and anally raped by a black man who called her racist names during the attack. Police refused to label it a hate crime.
Alexandria, Virginia. A black man walking through a neighborhood went over to a white eight-year-old boy playing in his great-grandparents front yard and slit the childs throat, killing him. A witness says that the attacker shouted racial epithets during the attack, and the main suspect in the case owns anti-white hate literature and had written a note about killing white children. He had been previously arrested for attacking an unarmed white stranger with a hammer. (During the attack, he called his victim Whitey.)12 This particular case provides a perfect example of the terrible way that anti-white hate crimes are handled. First, the investigators decided not to tell police officers about the racial aspects of the case, even while the police were conducting a manhunt to find the boys killer. When this was revealed by the Washington Post, city council member Joyce Woodson defended this withholding of information from the cops on the front line. What they did was proper. We already live in a racially charged world. The Democratic mayor of Alexandria implied his agreement: Efforts to sensationalize this investigation will only hurt this investigation. To make things even stranger, the FBI offered to send agents and a fugitive task force to help with the manhunt, but the local police rejected the offer. They also refused the help of the FBIs profilers, forensics experts, and others.14Eventually, the police arrested a suspect who was reportedly tied to the scene by DNA evidence. In another bizarre move, the Justice Department which had acknowledged that it was monitoring the case declined to prosecute the killing as a hate crime. The governments prosecutor in the case cannot charge the victim with a hate crime. Theres no applicable hate crimes law in Virginia, he explained. An editorial in the Washington Times pointedly commented on the deafening silence surrounding the brutal child-murder: Has anyone seen Jesse Jackson around lately? Kweisi Mfume? Al Sharpton? For persons whose political antennae are ordinarily so sensitive that they can pick up racial tremors a thousand miles away, they seem to have overlooked a possible hate crime right here in the vicinity of the nations capital.Even though all of the above incidents occurred in the last ten years, anti-white hate crimes are not new. The Village Voice writes of the wave of random street killings that terrorized San Francisco in 1973. The Zebra killers struck without warning, murdering whites at night. Most victims were shot. One was raped, another beheaded. Four young black Muslims were arrested in 1974 and charged with 14 murders, seven assaults, one rape, and an attempted kidnapping. The Zebra killers were convicted in 1976.
Wait a minute! If I’m Trayvon, then I have a statement to make.
“I, Trayvon, swear that on the night I was shot, I ambushed George Zimmerman, punched him in the face, and then proceeded to smash his head into the sidewalk, with intent to kill.
During the struggle, I noticed he had a gun, so I reached for it. He got to the gun first and shot me because he rightly assumed I was going to kill him. The shooting was justified.
To clear up another point, yes, I was a thug and was casing the neighborhood looking for homes to break into. I planned to fence the items and use the proceeds to buy drugs. Zimmerman was right to be suspicious of me.
I am sorry for all the trouble my family and the black community, especially people like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, put him through and I ask them to leave the poor man alone.
I would like to thank Gloria J. Browne-Marshall and the Milwaukee Courier for this opportunity to speak out on this terrible injustice done to George Zimmerman.
I urge those who want to make me some kind of saint to drop that. I was no saint. As I said, I was a thug. I wish my loser parents had taken some interest in setting some rules for me and showed me how to become a person who could make a positive contribution to the world.
I think I have said enough for now, but I will occasionally reappear in various news sources and may have more to say.
Finally, I would like to thank my friends in the afterlife for translating my message into English.”
Yeah, we get it... the black criminal class keeps the ghetto in line, fearful, and voting democrat.
We're also sick of it.
Oh, yeah. I immediately cross the street when I see a man wearing a yarmulke. Scary, children! Not.
Yep. Read that line, then skipped to the bottom. Only question is where did she get her license to teach law, let alone comment on it in a pretend intelligent manner?
Did she actually read or watch any of the trial and understand it was a clear-cut case of self-defense? Or did she just take the race baiter's version (Poor Trayvon, hunted down like a dog!) at face value?
Another fact-free liberal opinion on the Zimmerman case.
Oh, and BTW, Gloria, had Trayvon succeeded in braining Zimmerman to death against the pavement, he would, in all probability, been tried as an adult. So much for him being a 'boy' or a 'child'. He was a fully-matured thug.
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