While we all should wait for a complete investigation into the Florida shooting --bottom line a very young person is dead and that is a very real shame. Also I am very sorry for what happened to bbsam--While we do not agree on too much politically I respect him and his viewpoints.
bbsam reminds us that this is now 2012. I fully agree. But there is a much bigger picture here than the portrait of pure racism.
Why would a very possibly innocent young black man get shot ?? Why would someone call the police on a working Black man doing his job ?? If you just throw it off to racism --you are missing the real problem.
Black on Black violence is out of control. Black on White violence is also off the scale. The number of young black Males in trouble or in Jail is unacceptable.
Just chaulk it all off to Racism ??? Please get real. For too long now the weak Black Leaders Sharpton and Jackson jump on the results not the causes of the problems.
Seven out of ten Black children are born out of Wedlock and into a life of crime and poverty. No discipline at home, broken families lead to no discipline to attend school , a life of drugs and crime. HUGE NUMBERS ---Generation after Generation are causing disastors.
With these large numbers ---Every Black get looked at with suspicion ---wrong or right --not RACISM --REALITY.
I pray and contibute in many ways to try to end this sad situation --but in the end as I have been told many times --and bbsam will probably tell me the same --none of your business --let the Blacks fix their own problems.
And just like the Leon Huris's Novel "Trinity" -- that I find truly tragic--the very last line " The History of Ireland never changes. It is only the past happening over and over again.
It is 2012 bbsam --alot of changes must occur before many things will get better.
O/K I am prepared --WHO will throw the first RACE CARD. How far from the truth you will be.
What does any of this have to do with this case?? Lets examine some facts for a change ISLAND.
First, trayvon was living in the housing complex with his father, fathers girlfriend and her parents. He has a RIGHT to come and go as he pleases. He can walk anywhere he feels like it. In this case, he took a walk to buy some candy and a drink while talking on the phone with his girlfriend. There is NO PROOF that he did anything to or from the store that would equate a crime.
When ZIMMERMAN himself sees him, he states PRETTY CLEARLY that Trayvon was just "STANDING THERE LOOKING AROUND".... is that a crime in america? Is it against the law for a black man to stand in one place and look around? Is it against the law to walk in a gated community if you are black?
When Zimmerman sees trayvon, NOTHING HAD HAPPENED yet. Its Zimmerman who MAKES SOMETHING HAPPEN. Where was Zimmerman trained to determine if someone was on drugs at a distance? Where was Zimmerman trained to spot suspicious actions like standing still? Was it against the law to wear a hoodie in a rainstorm?
What suspicious actions did Trayvon do while Zimmerman was stalking him in his vehicle, cause thats what he was doing, stalking.
This self appointed vigilante wanted to take matters into his own hands, saw that he had a physical advantage over a young teen but decided to take a gun with him as he exited his car just in case he got his ash kicked.
This black kid who has every single right that YOU and I have, deserved to be left ALONE. NO PERSON can create a scenario where guilt is AUTOMATICALLY assigned because of the color of their skin or clothing.
If so, every white dude "wearing a wife beater" should be arrested. This case goes to show that racism still exists in this country, and judgement strictly on race make people do stupid things.
Believe me, if it had been a 6'7" tall 295 pound black man, zimmerman wouldnt have come within a mile of him. Instead, he saw a "victim" he could terrorize.
I find that Trayvon had a RIGHT to defend himself. He's minding his own business, he's walking home from a store where he purchased items ( not stole them or robbed them) and he had every RIGHT to be on that street without being acosted by Zimmerman.
Instead, Zimmerman exits his car despite being told NOT TO, takes a gun and trayvon, who does know Zimmerman or what he professes to represent sees that he is being stalked by a man in a vehicle and following him decides to quickly get away only to meet his end when this "coward" shoots him in the chest at close range.
A drink and a bag of skittles was the only thing this kid had, but Zimmerman was implying to police on the phone that the guy was "reaching for his wasteband". I believe Zimmerman really thought because he was black and wearing a hoodie that it "FIT" his stereotype of black men, and Trayvon would end up having a gun.
Because thats what all black men do, in his mind.
This poor kids life was taken by a maroon with a gun. To much of a COWARD to defend himself with his hands against a drink and a bag of skittles, he pulls out a gun and kills an innocent human being.
Please spare me the dialog about national statistics Island. GIVE THIS SOME REAL THOUGHT.
Peace
TOS
