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A Right to be hostile: Why Trayvon Martin's Family shouldn't have to play nice
Ebony ^ | 4/13/12 | Jamilah Lemieux

Posted on 04/14/2012 4:51:02 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

I became sick to my stomach upon hearing that Sybrina Fulton, mother to murdered Trayvon, had stated this week that she felt that her son’s shooting death was “an accident.” I understand that Trayvon is her baby, not mine, and that a grieving mother should not only be given the space to mourn and emote as she sees fit…but that her emotions during this time can lead her to say things that the rest of the world can’t quite understand or co-sign. I get that. I also appreciate that Fulton had the opportunity to recant her statement later on HLN’s Nancy Grace, stating that she believes George Zimmerman had an “intent” in mind when he approached her son and “carried out that intent.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: georgezimmerman; hypocrisy; race; travyonmartin; trayvon; zimmerman
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Also from this article, which would be laughable if it weren't so ignorant of the facts:

" We---Black folks---are so quick to forgive, so afraid of being perceived as unreasonable or uncivilized, that we tend to deny ourselves the very human right to be enraged."

1 posted on 04/14/2012 4:51:13 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper
mother to murdered Trayvon

That's Libel, right there.

Zimmerman is going to be sueing people for decades.

2 posted on 04/14/2012 4:58:32 AM PDT by agere_contra
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To: SoFloFreeper
I'm sorry, but that article is worst than the racist tripe normally spewed out by Cynthia Tucker.

The sentence just before your quote was (with emphasis added):

"It’s still worth noting how Martin’s initial suggestion that Zimmerman had shot her son in what was simply a bad encounter that got “out of hand,” speaks to a classic response to racist crimes. "

If Zimmerman is "white" because one parent is white, then our beloved Dear Reader is also white.

3 posted on 04/14/2012 5:02:15 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: SoFloFreeper

As long as this decrepit subculture dominates 15% or more of our body politic, it will be very difficult if not impossible to restore our republic.

BTW, my white guilt bank account balance: $0.


4 posted on 04/14/2012 5:04:54 AM PDT by Jacquerie (No court will save us from ourselves.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

stating that she believes George Zimmerman had an “intent” in mind when he approached her son and “carried out that intent.”

And she knows this how? From the neighbor who witnessed her son, on top of and, beating the crap out of Zimmerman? Blinded by rage or the prospects of a cash settlement?
Sorry about your son and i’m sorry the race baiters probably got to you but the evidence I have read is against him.


5 posted on 04/14/2012 5:06:44 AM PDT by Leep (Enemy of the Statist)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Get hostile, Get dead. Easy.


6 posted on 04/14/2012 5:14:08 AM PDT by tgusa (gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger .......)
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To: All

Says the magazine... “Ebony”.

Null and VOID. Moving along..


7 posted on 04/14/2012 5:26:13 AM PDT by Celerity
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To: SoFloFreeper
so afraid of being perceived as unreasonable or uncivilized
Perceived? So Detroit, Chicago, St Louis, Newark, etc., are just perceptions?
Gheeze, talk about delusional.
8 posted on 04/14/2012 5:27:24 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Jacquerie

BTW, my white guilt bank account balance: $0.

Ditto! I got tired of hearing ‘It’s a black thing, you wouldn’t understand.’ and that I was just too stupid to realize that I WAS a racist. ENOUGH!
Equal protection under the law or
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others”.


9 posted on 04/14/2012 5:28:22 AM PDT by griswold3 (Big Government does not tolerate rivals.)
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To: SoFloFreeper
From the article:

Evidence suggests that a 26-year-old man with a well-documented history of bias against young Black men took it upon himself to patrol his gated community with a gun and hunted down a significantly smaller teen boy even after her was instructed by a 911-dispatcher to retreat.

From what I heard, Zimmerman was a registered democrat and a civil rights/social justice activist who helped organize a campaign to prosecute the police captain's son for the assault of a homeless black man. That doesn't quite fit in with the democrat mainstream media narrative.

10 posted on 04/14/2012 5:33:57 AM PDT by Godebert (NO PERSON EXCEPT A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN!)
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To: Godebert

You are letting facts get in your way.Zimmerman has been portrayed as a raving manic waving a gun by the media and self hating Whites. no amount of facts will ever change that.


11 posted on 04/14/2012 5:38:54 AM PDT by sport
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To: griswold3
"BTW, my white guilt bank account balance: $0."

I believe that qualifies you for the white guilt EBT card.

12 posted on 04/14/2012 5:40:06 AM PDT by Godebert (NO PERSON EXCEPT A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I’m certainly glad the Black youths that ran amok and were beating people at the states fairs last year were just being friendly. It would have been hell if that was rage.


13 posted on 04/14/2012 5:40:14 AM PDT by meatloaf (Support House Bill 1380 to eliminate oil slavery.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Some people just like feeling sorry for themselves and hating on Whitey. Especially if Whitey is Jewish. Zimmerman sure sounds Jewish to me.


14 posted on 04/14/2012 5:41:24 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Queeg Olbermann: Ahh, but the strawberries that's... that's where I had them.)
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To: SoFloFreeper
" We---Black folks---are so quick to forgive, so afraid of being perceived as unreasonable or uncivilized, that we tend to deny ourselves the very human right to be enraged."

Gee, maybe the reason young males in your race are viewed as uncivilized is that such a large percentage actually ARE.

Which is why pinheads like you are viewed as unreasonable - because you are clueless why Americans - including the likes of Jesse Jackson - are fearful about the concept of a black male approaching them.

15 posted on 04/14/2012 5:46:34 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: SoFloFreeper
Evidence suggests that a 26-year-old man with a well-documented history of bias against young Black men took it upon himself to patrol his gated community with a gun and hunted down a significantly smaller teen boy even after her was instructed by a 911-dispatcher to retreat.

One sentence, multiple problems with even basic facts.

Zimmermann is 28, not 26.

Zimmermann doesn't have a "well-documented history of bias against young black men." In fact, he actually helped to organise an activist group to get the son of a Sanford police officer prosecuted after the boy beat up a homeless black man and it was swept under the rug by the cops.

He didn't "take it upon himself" to patrol his community - that was his role as a neighbourhood watch coordinator. One which he was fulfilling because said gated community had experienced several break-ins in the previous few weeks.

Martin was not "significantly smaller" than Martin. Martin was 6'2", 160 lbs (and that weight is just an estimate which is probably on the low side), while Zimmermann is 5'9", 200 lbs (and, judging from his pictures, it isn't the "really muscular and in shape" type of short but heavy, either).

Zimmermann DID back off after instructed by the dispatcher. However, by that time, he was being pursued by Trayvon Martin, who apparently had the intention of provoking a confrontation, so retreating did not guarantee a lack of contact.

16 posted on 04/14/2012 5:48:02 AM PDT by Yashcheritsiy
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Zimmerman sure sounds Jewish to me.

And HUSSEIN sounds MUSLIM to me.

17 posted on 04/14/2012 5:49:39 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: Yashcheritsiy
The lynch Zimmerman posse does not want or need facts, My FRiend. They have their own scenario that was given to them by their idols, the main stream media and the rev.[s] Sharpton and Jackson.

Attempting to get them to look at the facts is an exercise in futility.

18 posted on 04/14/2012 5:53:20 AM PDT by sport
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To: Yo-Yo
You have struck the nail on the head!

If Zimmerman is "white" because one parent is white, then our beloved Dear Reader is also white.

19 posted on 04/14/2012 5:53:27 AM PDT by Tomato lover
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To: Jacquerie

> BTW, my white guilt bank account balance: $0.

So is mine.

My parents were very poor Italian immigrants. Nobody in my blood line was every wealthy enough to have slaves of any ancestry.

In fact, it is very likely that my ancestors were enslaved by North African Mohametans who dominated the region for hundreds of years.

If anything, my “white guilt” balance is negative.


20 posted on 04/14/2012 6:06:03 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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