There is another side to Trayvon Martin’s death

Cross Roads News ^ | August 16, 2013 | Elrado Ramsay

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[Hot Tabasco]

what happened when Zimmerman caught up with Martin

Zimmerman was on his way back to his truck so it was the other way around.......He was the prey

[No One Special]

Probably could have used a better opening line like, “It was a dark and squally night”.

[kjam22]

Its a good article....

[Cyclone59]

Truer words have not been spoken about this ENTIRE story

It all comes back to the mom and dad factor. Love it.

[nathanbedford]

Trayvon was not killed because Zimmerman hates black people. Fact is that Zimmerman is just as white as Barack Obama. Zimmerman cannot claim privileges for his whiteness anywhere in America. White people have made sure that you are not white in America until both your parents are born white. In fact there was a time when you were only three-fifths of a person if you were not white. Zimmerman would have been a three-fifther – hands down.

So, without a race-based murder or a hate crime, it could well have been self-defense. Where does that leave us?

That leaves us without a bad guy to convict under a system of identity justice. Identity justice says identify the race, ethnicity etc. of the parties and you have established good guy and bad guy, guilt and innocence.

Pity that Zimmerman's DNA is so confused

[BunnySlippers]

I agree, it is a good story. I even went so far as to find other articles written by Elrado Ramsay.

He’s not easy to find.

[xzins]

There is no question that things would have ended better if Zimmerman had heeded counsel from 911 personnel and restrained himself from following Martin into the bowels of the residential complex.

I stopped there. Immediate evidence that the guy didn't know the basics of the case.

[noprogs]

Eight burglaries in the condo complex the month before Trayvon was shot.

Zero burglaries the month after. Of course the streets were swarming with news crews and reporters during much of that month after, but when a thug stops sucking air, it seems to make other thugs stop and think for a while.

These burglary stats were mentioned in the last few months here on FR.

[usconservative]

Its a good article....

Only if you keep reading past the first two paragraphs which are fraught with errors around the case and assumes Zimmerman's guilt from the get-go.

It's only when you reach @ half-way down the article the author gets into the meat of his subject where this article actually does turn into a decent read.

[Catsrus]

Same here - he lost me when he wrote that. What in the world stops people from doing research to find out the facts of a case? Why are they such puppets for the MSM?

Why doesn’t someone turn this around and ask all the what ifs about Trayvon? What if he had just gone into his dad’s girlfriend’s house and left well enough alone?

[Raycpa]

Keep reading. He is attempting to reach the bigots by establishing common ground.

[cport]

He knows it. It's just how any black commentator starts their narrative before going off the plantation and actually discussing the root cause of the whole incident; the absolutte lack of parenting that is so typucal in these poorer black neighborhoods. He gives a complete list of the black "cultural" mores; sagging pants, ganja chic, etc. that are identified and glorified in gangsta culture, and send most parents into a reflexive prohibitive stance, unless of course said parents are immersed in that culture as well. He even drops a Jesse-Jackson-relief-at-seeing-white-person screed with the whole everyone profiles, and if you don't, your dead part of his article.

All in all, good and courageous perspective from a black writer. If we can now only get a few more that will also drop the (proven in court by 911 record and phone GPS that Treyvon followed George and not the other way around) false premises that precede these types of articles, then I'd say maybe there is a change that race relations can actually be repaired. Courageous blacks must make a stand.

[DeaconRed]

"The answer lies in getting real about the context of Trayvon Martin’s death Life."

I was hoping the idiot parents would file a civil suit so the truth about trayvon would come out. Not the choir boy the LSM tried to run past us.
He was a bad kid thanks to the way mama & daddy raised him.
mama kicked him out of the house and sent him to daddy. daddy was too occupied with his girl friend to spend any time with the punk.

[Red in Blue PA]

There is no question that George Zimmerman killed Trayvon Martin.

I would argue St. Skittles killed himself when he ATTACKED a person who was willing to defend his own life.

May he rot in hell.

[Boomer One]

...”and you would not take kindly to Zimmerman’s cowardice”. A man sacrificing his time and taking risks to protect neighbors is now a coward? This statement I strongly disagree with and believe it shows the author’s prejudice. And once again we see “stand your ground” confused with self defense. Aside from these statements, not a bad piece but could do a lot better if it went into more detail on Martin’s sad family issues and the issues confronting black “families” in general.

[backwoods-engineer]

Its a good article....

Really?

That tells me more about you than the article, which is full of half-truths, racist innuendo, and inflammatory fantasy about "Stand Your Ground" laws, which were never at issue in the case.

Martin attacked Zimmerman, NOT THE REVERSE. And for that, Zimmerman was completely justified in killing the little thug. He is in the ground, and the world is better off.

[Optimus Prime]

You’re misinterpreting that statement. He’s saying that, if you lived in that neighborhood and Zimmerman, a neighborhood watchman, DIDN’T get out of his car to follow a suspected criminal, then “you would not take kindly to Zimmerman’s cowardice.” Basically he’s saying Zimmerman was in a “Damned if you do, damned if you don’t” situation. If he hadn’t gotten out, and Martin had committed a crime, then people would be calling Zimmerman a coward for not doing his job as a neighborhood watchman.

[republicangel]

Couldn’t finish reading it... too many basic facts of the case just plain wrong.