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Pitts: Trayvon ‘killed by a stereotype’
The Miami Herald ^ | May 5, 2012 | Leonard Pitts Jr.

Posted on 05/06/2012 12:18:53 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

I don’t care about George Zimmerman’s MySpace page.

Granted, it was gratifying to read recently in The Miami Herald about his crude animus toward Mexicans (“soft ass wanna be thugs”) and his reference to a former girlfriend as an “ex-hoe.” Given the way white supremacists and other Zimmerman supporters have exaggerated and manufactured evidence to paint Zimmerman’s unarmed 17-year-old victim, Trayvon Martin, as a thug who somehow deserved shooting, this unflattering portrait offers the same satisfaction one feels any time the goose is basted with sauce that was prepared for the gander.

But ultimately, Zimmerman’s online profile is as irrelevant as Trayvon’s to any real understanding of the social dynamics that were at play the night the boy was shot to death. Worse, our fixation on this ephemera, the need on the one hand to make Trayvon some dark gangsta straight from Central Casting and on the other to find a Klan hood in the back of Zimmerman’s closet, suggests a shallow, even naïve, understanding of the role race seems to have played in this tragedy.

The pertinent fact is that Zimmerman found Trayvon suspicious because, as he told the 911 dispatcher, the boy was walking slowly and looking around. That might be the behavior of a boy who was turned around in an unfamiliar neighborhood. Or of a boy enjoying a cell phone conversation with a girl and not overly eager to return to where his sweet nothings might be overheard by his dad.

That no such alternate possibilities seem to have occurred to Zimmerman for even an instant suggests the degree to which we as a people have grown comfortable with the belief that black is crime and crime is black. Nor are African Americans immune to the effects of that invidious formulation....

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: florida; georgezimmerman; trayvon; trayvonmartin; zimmerman
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He has some other good videos on the subject too. Maybe even better than that one. The guy is a breath of fresh air!


61 posted on 05/06/2012 12:00:32 PM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: POWERSBOOTHEFAN

Yes, it does! :-)


62 posted on 05/06/2012 12:01:42 PM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: UCANSEE2

I’m still trying to figure out what a ‘nest round’ is. ;^)


63 posted on 05/06/2012 12:06:55 PM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: jonatron
What a self-righteous, sanctimonious limosine-liberal fool.

Leonard Pitts is a "professional black". This requires him to be a "self-righteous, sanctimonious limousine liberal fool" in order to earn his salary from the liberal establishment he works for.

64 posted on 05/06/2012 12:08:56 PM PDT by okie01
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To: okie01
It's a very exclusive plantation reserved for the most talented buck dancers.

A runaway explains it better than I can.

65 posted on 05/06/2012 12:25:14 PM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: TigersEye
It's a very exclusive plantation reserved for the most talented buck dancers.

You've got the right idea.

66 posted on 05/06/2012 12:31:53 PM PDT by okie01
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To: TigersEye

That’s what I thought,LOL.


67 posted on 05/06/2012 1:26:15 PM PDT by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (I love you so much,Pumpkin. You're the best cat in the world.)
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To: aruanan

Yikes.


68 posted on 05/06/2012 1:28:50 PM PDT by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (I love you so much,Pumpkin. You're the best cat in the world.)
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To: TigersEye
I’m still trying to figure out what a ‘nest round’ is

That's just how someone talks after several rounds of drinks.

For instance: "Okey-dokey ossifer, what's nest?

69 posted on 05/06/2012 1:58:06 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: UCANSEE2

Officer Wizekreik: “We usually call it a ‘cell’ but since you’re going to be a jailbird you can call it a nest if you like.”


70 posted on 05/06/2012 2:09:24 PM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: TigersEye

Jammed?

One problem with these tiny Kel-tecs is they’re so small that if you don’t hold them tightly, the recoil could jam the next round.

My amex card is the Kel-tec .380 loaded with hollow points. It’s made in FL, guaranteed for life. And you don’t even know it’s in your pocket. But you have to hold it extra tight because it’s so small.


71 posted on 05/06/2012 3:26:40 PM PDT by bicyclerepair ( REPLACE D-W-S ! http://www.karenforcongress.com)
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To: bicyclerepair
I was corrected on that. It didn't "jam" what it did was it "didn't cycle."

There can be a number of causes for a failure to cycle such as your suggestion or a hand on the slide fighting for control of the weapon or something getting caught between the returning slide, bolt and barrel. That could be clothing, a finger, the just spent case, the next round out of the magazine or a number of other things. In this case we can rule out the next round because the magazine was found with only one round missing.

I guess if the obstructing object doesn't remain caught in the mechanism it doesn't count as a "jam."

72 posted on 05/06/2012 3:56:17 PM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
the Martin young man was killed by a stereotype...his own....he lived up to every single stereotype of many young men of his age and his race....

kicked out of school....no job...foul mouthed....obscene...and violent...

stop this behavior and you stop the stereotype....

73 posted on 05/06/2012 8:36:40 PM PDT by cherry
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