He looks black enough to hate whites.
Posted on 08/04/2013 2:18:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I am an 84-year-old angry Black man. I am Mississippi born, Mississippi bred and Mississippi fled. I am the son of former slaves. My parents and I rode in the back of the bus. We rode in the front of the trains. We drank from water fountains designated for coloreds only. We picked cotton in fields owned by White people.
My parents attended separate but equal schools in Mississippi. I attended separate but equal schools in Mississippi and in Oakland, California. My wife was educated in Oakland public schools and at the University of California at Berkeley. She could not get a job teaching in Oakland Public schools in Oakland in 1954. I hold an undergraduate and a graduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley. I was profiled at a Washington, D.C., hotel in 2010, forced to sleep in a homeless shelter overnight.
I saw nothing in the Zimmerman case that surprised me. The system worked as it was intended. Zimmerman, a White man, was tried by a White justice system for killing a Black boy. The outcome was predictable. Many White people saw this as a non-racial event.
The O.J. Simpson jury found for the defense. The jury found reasonable doubt. The George Zimmerman jury found for the defense. The six White women on the jury found reasonable doubt. Zimmerman admitted that he killed Trayvon Martin. Simpson denied that he killed anyone. The press excoriated the Simpson jury. The Zimmerman jury was praised.
In both cases, the state presented weak cases. There are lessons to be learned from both cases. Laws are made to control the actions of people who can’t afford to break them. Both Simpson and Zimmerman bought as much justice as they needed. Their jurors were presented with reasonable doubt.
In the Zimmerman case, there are some facts that concerned citizens should understand. George Zimmerman is White. The juror of unknown ethnicity is White. The police who refused to arrest Zimmerman and who testified for him were White. The judge, and the prosecution were White. Every critical function carried on in that justice system was performed by a White person. Such is the case in almost every trial or plea bargaining case involving a Black man in this country.
George has been described as Hispanic. That does not mean that he is not White. The term Hispanic is a political designation that describes national origin, not race. Hispanic is a protected designation under our civil rights laws, but the term is not racial. I would guess that George Zimmerman, on his driver’s license under race, is designated White.
The most important fact to know is that the prosecution worked as hard for George Zimmerman as they did for the state of Florida. The prosecution did not challenge the lack of Afro Americans on the jury. The prosecution did not present its own theory of the case; it reacted to Zimmerman’s story of the case.
The prosecution’s case should have been presented on the theory that the wounds displayed by Zimmerman were self-inflicted. Zimmerman inflicted those wounds on himself. Zimmerman knew enough about the law to know he needed such wounds. Such a prosecution theory would have forced the defense to defend against this theory, and it might have caused Zimmerman to testify.
Instead, the prosecution introduced a tape made by the Zimmerman defense. The prosecution should have fought to keep that tape out of the trial. In a just world this prosecutor would be disbarred for malpractice.
The second worst flaw in the prosecution’s case was their failure to challenge Zimmerman’s voice recognition by his friends and relatives. The prosecution needed to recode several voices saying what Zimmerman was alleged to have yelled on the 911 tapes, replay them and ask each of the witnesses to identify the Zimmerman voice.
The third flaw by the prosecution was to bring in a skinny dummy. They should have brought in a live person of the same height and weight as Zimmerman and required that person to pull his gun with Trayvon on top of him. The prosecution should have punctured a heart with Trayvon on top to test blood spatter. If Zimmerman had a broken nose, who repaired it?
Finally, if Trayvon was on top of Zimmerman when he was shot in the heart, why was there no blood of Martin’s on Zimmerman’s clothes? Why was this question not asked at trial?
The justice system worked as it is designed to do. The system exonerated a White man who admitted killing a Black boy. The Justice Department will not bring an action in this case. Just because the man who heads it is Black does not mean he runs it. DOJ is a system that runs the same no matter who is at the top.
Racism is structured into most of the important systems in this country.
1.Communications – 99% of the TV, radio and print media properties are owned by White people.
2.Construction – 99% of the construction in this country is done by White people.
3.Education – 99% of all educational resources are allocated by White people.
4.Transportation – 99% of all transportation is controlled by White people.
5.Justice – this system is 99.9% controlled by White people.
6.Financial – this system is 99.9 % controlled by white people.
When Congresswomen Maxine Waters asked that 0.000001 percent of the $700 billion bailout money go to banks owned or controlled by descendants of former slaves, they tried to put her in jail.
If we think that we get fair treatment in any of these systems, we must re-examine our definition of fairness.
As an angry old Black man I have seen the diminution of racism in my lifetime. We are not there yet. It is unlikely that we will get there in the lifetime of my grandchildren.
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Joseph Debro is president of Bay Area Black Builders and of Transbay Builders, a general engineering contractor, former director of the California state Office of Small Business, co-founder of the National Association of Minority Contractors and a bio-chemical engineer. He can be reached at transbay@netzero.com.
Okay, if both his parents were born in the last year of the Civil War, 1865, and he was born in 1928 making him 84, both his parents would have been 63 years old when he was born. Huh!
Yeah, first the anti-Zimmerman mob claimed there were no wounds. Now they claim they are self inflicted? Why is it impossible for these guys to consider the much more likely scenario that a young teenage boy who was into gang culture and fight clubs prior burglaries and was high on drugs who like to brag about making people bleed might have attacked a watchman who was watching him case houses? Why assume that a well loved elected watchman with a history of going out of his way to help people of of any race, including standing up to police for a homeless black man, tutoring black children for free, and visiting and comforting victims of burglaries would some how just decide to gun down a teenager because he was black and then beat his head into concrete and smash his own nose and then be willing to talk to the police immediately with a story the police found consistent with eye witnesses somehow.
Probably muslims. This piece is in a San Fransicko newspaper so I'm guessing that's where the guy is from, and if he was going to die from AIDS he'd be dead already.
I read them. : )
My dad picked cotton as a child, apparently a lot. A nickel or dime for a “toe sack” full. They travelled in an old car or in the back of a pick-up. They usually slept in shacks on the farms. During WW2 they depended on the money sent back from his deployed uncles.
My dad talked about all the odd-jobs he did as a kid. When they lived by a river once he was paid nickels to watch peoples boats for them. They were POOR. They didn’t grow up being told to blame it all on someone else though.
The “son of former slaves” is an obvious whopper, but his second-best lie is: I was profiled at a Washington, DC hotel in 2010 and forced to spend the night at a homeless shelter.
Guess that means I was “profiled” a couple of years ago when I got stuck in Philly during a blizzard and the airline sent me to a hotel that was already full.
If the hotel turned him away, why not mention the establishment by name? Why protect the “racists?” Why not go somewhere else? Truth be told, I’m guessing his credit card was declined, and be had to get someone to wire him some cash. Again, doesn’t exactly jibe with the image of a successful black engineer who has headed at least one major professional organization.
‘Fake but accurate’ comes to mind, or ‘wez oppressed so wez godda makes us a composite.’
The prosecution have to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
The defense does not have to prove innocence beyond a reasonable doubt.
People keep bringing up doubts regarding Zimmerman's innocence.
I have to call Debro out as a liar, using race hatred to foster the lie that Americans hate black people and want them to suffer, fail and die. That kind of rubbish has been allowed to fester in black communities and 'white' precincts, where it is used as a lever to extract more and more taxpayer-funded 'help' for blacks that has done nothing to lift them from the poverty that they too often create by their own poor choices and/or their decision to ignore opportunities and focus on blaming 'racism' for their failures.
A masters degree from Berkely and he had to sleep in a homeless shelter because he was profiled? In california?
I picked cotton one summer and that was more than enough. I think most people my age did. Big deal.
Maybe they escaped from slavery in Saudi Arabia.
He looks black enough to hate whites.
Are negros really thinking in this manner about the trial?
Assuming pre-natal conception was not in vogue, and being a little generous by assuming his parents were say 15 at the time he was born, that would make them each 79 years old in 1929.
So he's the world's most unknown Miracle Baby.
Maybe he can blame the white media establishment for not recognizing that.
“The gentleman is a liar, IMHO. “
The audience it is meant for is far too stupid to realize they are being fed a crock of sh. He’ll laugh all the way to the bamk. Too bad “they” don’t believe in education or they might have exited poverty a long time ago.
Does anyone have a good reference link to 1.6% of the pop. owned slaves in 1860? I’m not finding one - except for a ‘yahoo-answers’ link discussion.
Except for this piece of black wisdom:
Blacks are more racist than Whites
~ Larry Elder, The Ten Things You Can’t Say In America
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