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Florida rep. on Trayvon Martin case: 'We're not trying to make it racial. It is racial'
cnn.com ^ | March 23, 2012

Posted on 03/23/2012 2:21:10 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe

Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL) talks about the Trayvon Martin case on Starting Point with Soledad O’Brien.

Wilson says, “It's racial profiling. This isn't something that someone is pulling out of a hat. It happens all the time. It is happening as we speak. Racial profiling happens in our nation, in our state of Florida…. It happens every day. We're not trying to make it racial. It is racial.”

On the potential public reaction if shooter George Zimmerman isn’t convicted, she adds, “Well, I am afraid to even think. I don't want to think back to the '60s when people burned down cities. So, as we move around and we talk with people who are participating in rallies, we've got to prepare them as they move through this process as to what the outcome might be. There is no way I can see a grand jury not indicting this man. However, it's my understanding the grand jury is all white. I think that needs to be changed first of all. I think it should be a jury of his peers, someone who looks like him or looks like his family members, his mother or father. And I think that the energy - we'll have to find a way to transform this energy in making this a better country for little black boys. We’ve got to all become mentors.”

On the police chief stepping down, she continues, “That's an insult for him to say that he's temporarily removing himself. He needs to be fired. ....

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TOPICS: US: Florida
KEYWORDS: democrats; fredericawilson; trayvon; trayvonmartin; zimmerman
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1 posted on 03/23/2012 2:21:14 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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“However, it’s my understanding the grand jury is all white.”

Really, how would she know. So she wants an all black GJ empaneled to assure this person, who is not white but of mixed ethnicities, is indicted. Talk about blatant racism. These people have no souls. If they did, they wouldn’t be able to look at themselves in the mirror.


2 posted on 03/23/2012 2:25:59 PM PDT by Bruinator ("For socialism is not merely the labour question, it is before all things an atheistic question")
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To: Tailgunner Joe

“I don’t want to think back to the ‘60s when people burned down cities.”

So, now, without really knowing what happened they are not-so-subtlely threatening to burn down cities? If they burned Detroit down no one would notice. If they burned D.C. some might see it as a public service.

People are getting tired of racial shakedowns.


3 posted on 03/23/2012 2:27:19 PM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Zimmerman is a hispanic with blacks in his family. There is no evidence that he had any racial thoughts in his head.

His crime is following a suspicious person, apparently that person attacked him or was goaded.


4 posted on 03/23/2012 2:27:33 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

‘We’ve got to all become mentors.”

Yeah how many decades have we been hearing that? 73% illegitimacy, crime, drugs, prisoners, underachieving students
et al.

You’re doing just a top notch job, Frederica.


5 posted on 03/23/2012 2:28:22 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Blame the Slut Media and Slut Voters . . . Sandra Fluke = Useful Idiot)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Obama been laudin’ marital law: “Hot damn! A honky killed a black man!”


6 posted on 03/23/2012 2:28:55 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Hey idiot lady. The FBI invented profiling. And it works. This woman is a simpleton.


7 posted on 03/23/2012 2:29:55 PM PDT by goseminoles
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To: Bruinator

I’m sick and tired of threats of violence from the REAL RACIST if they don’t get what they want.

One thing is for sure, the man won’t get a fair trial in Florida.


8 posted on 03/23/2012 2:30:46 PM PDT by DirtyPigpen
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To: Tailgunner Joe

“We need to make sure he gets a fair trial....and then hang him!”


9 posted on 03/23/2012 2:31:01 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Disgusting racist tripe from a dishonest shill. This is news only because the Democrats can’t afford to have their failure exposed.
Lets watch the professional agitators try to railroad an Hispanic in Florida to insure a national black incident and prevent anybody from reporting on the lies coming out of the President and his dimicrats.


10 posted on 03/23/2012 2:31:36 PM PDT by Steamburg (The contents of your wallet is the only language Politicians understand.)
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“if shooter George Zimmerman isn’t convicted, she adds,” (riots, arson, murders, etc., like the `60s)

Why not just drag him out of his cell now and lynch him, Frederica?


11 posted on 03/23/2012 2:32:56 PM PDT by tumblindice (our new, happy lives)
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“.....On the potential public reaction if shooter George Zimmerman isn’t convicted, she adds, “Well, I am afraid to even think. I don’t want to think back to the ‘60s when people burned down cities....”

I’m tired of being threatened.

I’m tired of being told that if I don’t do what the blacks approve, or demand right, or wrong they are going to burn down the city, or the State, or the Country.

I’m tired of Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Rev. Wright, and their ilk living fat off their stirring up of hatred.

I’m tired of Black America believing in the hateful spew from those opportunists, and I’m tired of this President, and his AG sticking their noses into States business, and stirring up hate side by side with the Jackson’s, the Sharpton’s, the Wright’s, and their ilk.

This guy Zimmerman hasn’t the chance our Judicial system is designed to provide. He’s already been tried on the streets, and sentenced to death by the black community, and the Liberal Press.


12 posted on 03/23/2012 2:33:28 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

This shooting is being seized upon to promote rioting. The question being: for what purpose does the left want mass rioting at this time?


13 posted on 03/23/2012 2:35:14 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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Obama, whose-mom-doesn’t-look-like-Trayvon’s called Sandra Fluke quickly, when will he call Trayvon’s mom?


14 posted on 03/23/2012 2:37:02 PM PDT by NoLibZone (When will Obama call Trayvon's mom? He was quick to call Sandra Fluke.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Another “race pimp” in the mix. Her arrogance is only surpassed by her ignorance. Must be the “taco” hat squishing her brain.


15 posted on 03/23/2012 2:37:02 PM PDT by TexasSecede79366 (Soap box,jury box,ballot box,bullet box. Where are we now?)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Racial profiling is an EARNED situation.

Look at the Crime Statistics, look at the Neighborhood, look at the Cesspools inhabited by parasitic tribes, and THEN tell me it could be a White Amish dude that's shown they're not to be trusted?

16 posted on 03/23/2012 2:37:23 PM PDT by traditional1 (Don't gotsta worry 'bout no mo'gage, don't gotsta worry 'bout no gas; Obama gonna take care o' me!)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

If these folks can do this to George Zimmerman, they can do it to anyone who defends himself against a black male assailant, because everyone else they don’t give a rat’s backside about.

Like the old couple in Oklahoma. Like the many victims of the knockout game, committed by black males in hoodies, who hide their faces and intent until they can get close enough to sucker punch you.


17 posted on 03/23/2012 2:37:45 PM PDT by Molon Labbie (End the War On Drugs, Restore the Constitution.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
we'll have to find a way to transform this energy in making this a better country for little black boys.

He was 6 foot 3 and he was 17 years old.

18 posted on 03/23/2012 2:40:22 PM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

The answer is: They want to provide a small taste of what’s coming on Election Night if their man loses.


19 posted on 03/23/2012 2:42:20 PM PDT by Publius (Tagline for rent. Reasonable rates.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Facks? We don't need no stinkin' facks.


20 posted on 03/23/2012 2:43:11 PM PDT by Iron Munro (If Repubs paid as much attention to Rush as the Dem's do, we wouldn't be in this mess)
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