Posted on 03/24/2012 10:56:25 AM PDT by Baynative
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — I thought my son would be much older before I had to tell him about the Black Male Code. He's only 12, still sleeping with stuffed animals, still afraid of the dark. But after the Trayvon Martin tragedy, I needed to explain to my child that soon people might be afraid of him.
We were in the car on the way to school when a story about Martin came on the radio. "The guy who killed him should get arrested. The dead guy was unarmed!" my son said after hearing that neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman had claimed self-defense in the shooting in Sanford, Fla.
We listened to the rest of the story, describing how Zimmerman had spotted Martin, who was 17, walking home from the store on a rainy night, the hood of his sweatshirt pulled over his head. When it was over, I turned off the radio and told my son about the rules he needs to follow to avoid becoming another Trayvon Martin — a black male who Zimmerman assumed was "suspicious" and "up to no good."
As I explained it, the Code goes like this:
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Yes, it never seems to bother kiddo, he shrugs it off and usually laughs about it. When he had started college a few kids said they had thought he was a skinhead when they first saw him, not all of them black, either.
For me, I suppose I am just a mom and a worry-wart. I fret about my Boxers, too—worried some might think them a Pitt Bull. But not all Pitt Bulls are rotten, either.
Not all are racist or Pitt Bullist (haha) and generally move on from a first impression or whatever after becoming more familiar. It is only those who are determined to have only one opinion because of a pre-concieved notion of the crayola wrapper.
So you’re right, it much more complex. It is more about the individual than it is groups of this and that.
It was 7:11 pm when Zimmerman made the first call to police, Trayvon’s girlfriend called him at 7:12 and that call lasted for 4 minutes. By 7:17 the police were on the scene and Trayvon was dead.
Sunset was at 6:22 pm that day in Sanford and it was raining.
You have proof Zimmerman did this? You certainly seem to be implying that. To me, the available evidence indicates otherwise. I assume you’ve listened to the 911 calls and the report from the witness who saw Trayvon pummeling Zimmerman?
“Zimmerman was a threat”
How? Did he attack Martin? Did he pull his gun as Martin was walking by and open fire?
In America, it is legal for someone to ask you what you are doing. And it is legal to reply, “None of your business”.
It is not legal to respond by jumping on them & breaking their nose...
If I say it is kewl, he will most certainly think it must be the opposite!
Nah, he tells me I’m pretty kewl as he snatches me up and squeezes me to death. I tell him I like him alright, too and that I just may keep him. :p
“I’m not waiting for you to throw the first punch. I’m knocking you out and then going home. “
Unless you DON’t knock him out, and he shoots you.
Or calls the cops, and has you arrested for assault.
It is not illegal for someone to talk to you, or even to say something you don’t like. If you can’t deal with it, don’t go out in public.
“That kid had every right to punch some guy like that in the nose.”
You aren’t a lawyer, are you.
If I attacked everyone I thought was a jerk, I’d never make it to work...
Yep and Trayvon had a phone on him, he could have dialed 911 if he felt Zimmerman a threat.
If I am minding my own business and approached by a non-cop with a gun wanting to know what I am doing, I’m liable to break his nose myself. I am white and 64.
The entire education system has failed in American. What is seldom recognized is that blacks have suffered most from this tragedy. Starting in first grade, their lives become a series of failures and humiliations. When the socialist educrat John Dewey eliminated phonics from American schools it prevented 25%-30% of students from learning to read. (I have my own suspicions about why Dewey would want an illiterate population.)
However, the greatest burden of illiteracy falls on black kids, 60%-75% of whom can't read worth sh*t. All because our modern-day followers of Dewey don't care enough to make sure ghetto kids learn to read. (Reading studies using the phonics method show blacks and whites score equally well.)
Imagine you're a frightened little black kid living in a neighborhood where the only male role models are pimps and drug sellers. Your mom is on welfare and your brothers and sisters all have different daddies. Going to school each day is a relief, at first. You get breakfast. But in the classroom your dream of learning to read comes crashing down. The room is disorderly as the ADHD kids take over. The teacher means well but she has long ago given up and now just collects her salary. On the playground you get beat up. If you show any promise as a scholar you get punished by the bullies for "acting white."
If Obama really cared about his black brothers he would radically overhaul public education.
Thanks. I don’t think daylight savings time had started on that date, had it? If not, it was full dark and clouded-over-raining which would have made it even darker and harder for both parties to see who they were dealing with. Seems like a huge factor in interpreting the incident.
I would say it is wildly accurate since he IS OF MIXED RACE, mixed race is not the same thing as white plus anytime the press has an opportunity they refer to any “Hispanic” as being nonwhite, that is as long as that helps their agenda. In this case it does not help their agenda to refer to Zimmerman as nonwhite. I have seen people who looked nearly as white as Bill Clinton calling themselves black because it fits their agenda so why is this person who doesn’t really look any more white than Obama, not to mention Bill Clinton, being referred to as “white”? Only because it fits the media agenda, otherwise he would be called “Hispanic” or even “African American” if it suited their agenda and you know this is true. The agenda is to create the meme that a WHITE man who holds a concealed carry permit has MURDERED a black CHILD for no reason so Zimmerman cannot be called anything other than white for that reason and no other and for the same reason they show pictures of Martin that are several years old.
By the way, whether Peru was settled by Spaniards has absolutely nothing to do with the race of Zimmerman or his mother simply because she happened to be born there.
Nice post...
LOL! You were lucky! In the old days, you were likely to get beat up and have bruises. Times have changed, now people get arbitrarily killed. Not that it didn't happen before, just more often now. My next-door neighbor (hispanic kid) got his throat slit and died, and a friend around the corner got shot in the stomach in a gang fight. But usually, a beating is what happened, and you recover from that. These crazy punks now don't value life so much.
Nope, 2:00 a.m. on the second Sunday in March. (March 11th)
Trayvon was killed on Feb 26th.
Zimmerman had no right to get out of the car with a gun and confront anyone just walking down the street. Period!
How do you know he confronted anyone?
Always pay close attention to your surroundings, son, especially if you are in an affluent neighborhood where black folks are few. Understand that even though you are not a criminal, some people might assume you are, especially if you are wearing certain clothes.
This is a real rarity, a black 12 year old that lives with both parents.
If we had more of this, there would be less black on black murders than happened last week end in Chicago, 10 dead and 40 wounded, by these picked on black kids wandering around in white affluent neighbors.
Self righteous black, teaching fear and racism instead of telling the kid to wear a belt.
“Zimmerman had no right to get out of the car with a gun and confront anyone just walking down the street. Period!”
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Confront definition: To come face to face with, especially with defiance or hostility: I wish to confront my accuser in a court of law.
I heard that Zimmerman was following & observing him. At what point did he “confront” him? Do you have some sort of witness report you can link to?
“Mom knows best!”
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