Posted on 07/19/2015 8:25:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Alicia Garza was in a bar in Oakland, California, drinking bourbon when the verdict came in. It was July 2013 and she had been following the trial of George Zimmerman, a neighbourhood watch volunteer in Sanford, Florida, who had shot dead a 17-year-old African-American by the name of Trayvon Martin in February of the preceding year. Martin had been unarmed, on his way back from a 7/11 convenience store where he had just bought himself an iced tea and a bag of Skittles.
There had, of course, been shootings of young black men before. But this one had a particular resonance. Garza had a younger brother of a similar height and build to Martin. She felt it could just as easily have been him.
In the bar, Garza, her husband and her two friends had been checking their phones for updates from the trial. The jury had been deliberating for 16 hours on Zimmerman’s fate. When the verdict was announced, she learned of it first through Facebook: not guilty of second degree murder and acquitted of manslaughter.
“Everything went quiet, everything and everyone,” Garza says now. “And then people started to leave en masse. The one thing I remember from that evening, other than crying myself to sleep that night, was the way in which as a black person, I felt incredibly vulnerable, incredibly exposed and incredibly enraged. Seeing these black people leaving the bar, and it was like we couldn’t look at each other. We were carrying this burden around with us every day: of racism and white supremacy. It was a verdict that said: black people are not safe in America.”(continued)
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This is such BS. If black people aren’t safe, it’s because of other black people. There is no rash of whites or Asians or cops killing blacks. There is, however, an increase in the number of random attacks committed by blacks on other races. It amazes me how lies have been accepted as truth. The world has gone nuts.
may moron who can spout that sort of tripe with a guy who’s allegedly black.....in the Whitehouse.....needs shock treatment at the very least!
these amateur professional whiners and whinerettes need to be handed a BIG UNMISTAKABLE CLUE
What happened to the old civil rights movement?
Such BS I had to not read it. But I did roll my eyes plenty.
I should have just stopped there. This is code for "He found another way to assault someone" and "I feeeeeeeeeel that he should have gotten away with (whatever crap) he was doing". No sympathy here. Get a job/keep a job/hold a job. Mind your P's & Q's. Don't make a fool of yourself in public. It's all really rather easy.
This gibberish from a country that allows their girls to be sold into sex slavery so the Muslims will vote for the Labour Party.
Welfare! Free Stuff! Being constant victims!
They ain't about to go any where else!
Hmmm....
Maybe this place ain't so bad after all
The USA is the land of the free, as long as you don’t wander down Martin Luther King Blvd after dark.
It amazes me how lies have been accepted as truth
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Like, “hands up, don’t shoot”?
> Martin had been unarmed, on his way back from a 7/11 convenience store where he had just bought himself an iced tea and a bag of Skittles.
He then attacked Zimmerman, rained down punches “mma style” on Zimmerman, and beat Zimmerman’s head into the concrete sidewalk.
A small detail, easily missed.
“Everything went quiet, everything and everyone,” Garza says now.
And no doubt a voice went, "Bwa-ha-ha-ha!"
Speaking of, haven’t heard a peep about the 30 yr old White girl that had her head blown of by a black animal in Hollywood last week.
“Black people are not safe in America”
If you don’t feel safe here I suggest you leave. I hear rural Nigeria is nice this time of year.
It will morph from Blacklivesmatter to Blacksaresuperior than whites.
Brown lives matter, too. Should Zimmerman allowed Martin to continue bashing his head on the ground until his brains fell out?
That happened about .000001 seconds into it.
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