(I wonder, as I put the names together, how often George Zimmerman sees Trayvon Martin in his dreams. As strange as it seems, their lives are now inextricably linked. Martin will always be a part of his consciousness.)
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George Zimmerman did not make up the abrasions and contusions on the back of his head, or his bloody nose.
Zimmerman’s defense team did not make up Martin’s history of getting in fights and bragging about it via text message.
No one has yet explained how it took Martin an hour to make a 20 minute trip in the rain.
You, here, have not mentioned that Martin had already been caught
with stolen goods, that that neighborhood had been plagued by break-ins,
and that Martin fit that profile perfectly, particularly since he was
doing anything but following a straight line, and definitely did have
pot in him.
Here is the question you need to be asking: why are 40% or so of the
people in prison African-American, when they only constitute some 12% of
the population? Why has the nuclear family broken down, and with it
the ability to transmit valuable cultural lessons?
The ineluctable fact is that blaming racism is the EASY and WRONG way
out. You don’t help yourself. You don’t help your kids. You don’t
help the black community, or for that matter the white community.
What you need to be looking at are large problems. There are tens of
thousands of Trayvon Martin’s out there. Most of them, if they commit
murder, will kill another African-American, and to be blunt the evidence
is that most white Americans are fine with this. If you want to blame
some sort of racism, start there.
I post this only because I think it is a travesty and a disgrace that
we have such large pockets of cultural and economic dysfunction. The
unfortunate truth, though, is that these problems will only be solved
once we readmit the notions of non-relativistic morality, individual
autonomy, and personal responsibility.
Posted here: http://africanamericanconservatives.com/2013/07/14/trayvon-martin-george-zimmerman-and-a-willing-suspension-of-disbelief/
George Zimmerman did not make up the abrasions and contusions on the back of his head, or his bloody nose.
Zimmerman’s defense team did not make up Martin’s history of getting in fights and bragging about it via text message.
No one has yet explained how it took Martin an hour to make a 20 minute trip in the rain.
You, here, have not mentioned that Martin had already been caught
with stolen goods, that that neighborhood had been plagued by break-ins,
and that Martin fit that profile perfectly, particularly since he was
doing anything but following a straight line, and definitely did have
pot in him.
Here is the question you need to be asking: why are 40% or so of the
people in prison African-American, when they only constitute some 12% of
the population? Why has the nuclear family broken down, and with it
the ability to transmit valuable cultural lessons?
The ineluctable fact is that blaming racism is the EASY and WRONG way
out. You don’t help yourself. You don’t help your kids. You don’t
help the black community, or for that matter the white community.
What you need to be looking at are large problems. There are tens of
thousands of Trayvon Martin’s out there. Most of them, if they commit
murder, will kill another African-American, and to be blunt the evidence
is that most white Americans are fine with this. If you want to blame
some sort of racism, start there.
I post this only because I think it is a travesty and a disgrace that
we have such large pockets of cultural and economic dysfunction. The
unfortunate truth, though, is that these problems will only be solved
once we readmit the notions of non-relativistic morality, individual
autonomy, and personal responsibility.