Flaps wrote:extender wrote:Zimmerman should have been convicted, but stupidity is not a crime. He went into a situation, where he had no business going; he wasn't a cop. Martin paid for his stupidity of getting into an altercation. Just because someone is following you, that doesn't give them a right to assault you; call a cop, or get into your home. No winners, all losers.
I mostly agree except for the convicted part. Stupidity is not a crime, therefore you can't be convicted for it.
The whole case can be summed up as two idiots meeting in the night. No one was right here but there was plenty of wrong on both sides. A simple altercation that got out of hand like those that happen anywhere in the world on a regular basis where people live together. Zimmerman didn't need to follow the kid and the kid didn't need to jump Zimmerman. They each chose their path and as a result one died. It could have been either one.
If the races had been reversed and the black guy killed a white kid, it might have been news for a day or two in the local Orlando area. As it was, the media and the president following a race baiting divide and conquer agenda chose to make this case much more than what it was. While there is no doubt that racial injustices exist in this country, here's a news flash for those of you on the far left. In the real world, in the vast majority of our communities and interactions, blacks and whites get along. We live together, we work together and we play together. We raise our families together. The racial bogeyman while he does exist is simply not out there hiding under every rock, in every nook and cranny as many left wing pundits and media would lead you to believe.
This country has made tremendous progress in terms of racial relations and equality. The path forward is not to keep looking back and constantly stir the pot. While the past provides valuable reminders of where we don't want to be the way forward is to continue to build upon the tremendous achievements that we have accomplished together. I grew up and currently live in a community that used be 90% white but is now about 50% while and 50% black. When it was a white community there were conflicts between Italians and Irish and Germans and East Europeans. Not major issues, just those issues that people of different backgrounds run into from time to time..Today we have conflicts between old folks and young families. Between gang members and those just wanting something better for their families. We don't have conflicts between black and white because of the color of our skin. Yeah, there are a few racists around on both sides of the fence in about equal numbers but they aren't part of the story. In other words, its a normal community.
The whole Zimmerman/Martin debacle was a farcical circus, driven by individuals determined to take a personal crisis and inflate it in pursuit of a political agenda. There folks is the true crime at the center of the story. Zimmerman's lawsuit should be against the media and the government. Martin's parents were just pawns in the story. Used and abused by the media at an incredibly vulnerable time in their lives.
This comment..."The whole Zimmerman/Martin debacle was a farcical circus.."
..is a very telling at just how insincere and or how dismissive you are on so many things this one event that perfectly encapsulate the American Race Dynamic which began 400 years ago.
People greatly affected by being on the receiving end of centuries of gov't sanctioned inhumane treatment, murder, lynching, rapes, denials of justice...aka people of color view this 'Rosa Parks/Rodney King moment-like event - view this 1000% differently that you do - because they live it almost daily...for their entire lives, generation after generation.
Those people LEAST affected by this enormous list of injustices sum it just as you posted here to 'screw it, he's dead and no one cares..lets move on..'
And NONE of those mindsets contribute to the betterment of racial conditions in America, both dismiss such dark history as inconsequential.
Humans at the center of controversies, this O.J. Simpson to Dred Scott may simply be 'pawns' to spectators such as yourself, but media coverage is necessary to display nationally what we are doing to one another and how justice is dispensed.
Your world apparently ranks nothing of commanding interest whatsoever if it smaller than a full scale nuclear war.
If you think legal skirmishes over 'who can marry whom' and what women should or cannot do with their bodies is 'Media Pawn' driven entertainment, then surely the impact on the tragic lives people from from Trayvon Martin, Philando Castillo, Eric Garner, Bothem Jean, and a list that runs as long as the day is long, is reduced to nothing of sincere concern in the brain that sees this as you - unfortunately, they number in the millions.
As to this case, there is more than meets the eye...
Martin had been staying with his father in the complex for how long?
It has never been disclosed.
Odds are if he were there more than the faithful night, 2 nights to a week or more..then increases the possibility that Martin and Zimmerman encountered one another more than once.
That sets the stage for a stupid game of high school ignorance 'I have my eye on you, I'm in charge in this neighborhood..you (Trayvon) are just visiting Don't step out of line on my watch, dude!' - you may not be aware, but security people almost unanimously adopt this mentality in any and every situation -ESPECIALLY, where and where kids are involved!
I'll leave it there to guess what occurred after that. But given the image in the opening post, listing all Zimmermans running afoul of the law is an accurate indicator of just how much of a mental disaster this guy was at the time and how f*d up he is now.
His account of what occurred that night...cannot include a single shred of honesty, not one word.
Because too many people will not and have not given that shred of Honesty to Martin were the roles reversed or he if survived. The bent of the majority always goes to the cop..in this case the wannabee a cop, a useless security guard.
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