Family of Florida boy killed by Neighborhood Watch seeks arrest

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TheNatural said:
Sorry if old, this courtesy of the good ole University of Texas student paper:

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/27/university-of-texas-trayv_n_1383539.html

They since pulled the cartoon from their site. Stay classy Texas.
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fucking wow.
 
entrement said:
So this is now about character assassinating a kid who didn't deserve to die like this?
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This entire situation has made me feel so awfully sad about the state of the world, and how shit really hasn't changed. Being in a blue state does take your mind off of the reality of the world, but I just didn't know that this could go down in 2012. Its not isolated with this incident either, the Hunger Games thing was just a double tap to the forehead.
 
I'm actually surprised people are surprised that the character assassination began. To me, it was one of the most obvious outcomes of this case. The racial aspect of this case made that a sure thing.
 
Kosmo said:
No, I'm just pointing out how dishonest the media has been in portraying Trayvon (who, I'm inclined to believe did not deserve to be shot - seems like I'm the only GAFer who didn't witness it in person) as a 12-14 year old kid wearing Hollister. Was he not 17?

Does nobody find it weird?
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I find it weird that you are more interested in recent photos of the kid than the fact that he was wrongly stalked and killed by a shitty vigilante.
 
entrement said:
So this is now about character assassinating a kid who didn't deserve to die like this?
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For conservatives, apparently so. Any combo dealing with racism AND something with the second amendment is like a worldwide Rush Limbaugh signal goes off and you better be prepared to hear every excuse and character attack, not only on the victim, but his family and what anyone with the same ethnicity does as a response to the incident. Drudge is flat out racist about all this.
 
Who the fuck is this guy making the media rounds and defending Zimmerman? I find it hard believing a single word he says.
 
Averon said:
I'm actually surprised people are surprised that the character assassination began. To me, it was one of the most obvious outcomes of this case. The racial aspect of this case made that a sure thing.
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It just seemed tooooo obvious to do so. The agenda is blatant, you know? And all in all, the kid was just walking down the street...

Just turns the stomach.
 
MIMIC said:
Who the fuck is this guy making the media rounds and defending Zimmerman? I find it hard believing a single word he says.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/25/us-usa-florida-shooting-friend-idUSBRE82O0FE20120325

Black friend defends shooter of Florida teen

"He couldn't stop crying. He's a caring human being," Joe Oliver, 53, a former television news reporter and anchor in Orlando who has known Zimmerman for several years, told Reuters in a telephone interview.

Oliver's wife is a close friend of Zimmerman's mother in law, who told him Zimmerman cried for days in remorse after the shooting. He also spoke directly with Zimmerman on Saturday.

"I'm a black male and all that I know is that George has never given me any reason whatsoever to believe he has anything against people of color," Oliver said.

"All these people who are threatening George, what makes them any better than the person they think he is?" Oliver said. "You've got all these people wanting to lynch the man and they don't know the whole story. There are huge gaps that are being filled in and interpreted without evidence."

As a black man, Oliver said minorities are often unfairly treated, but he believed Zimmerman was simply doing his job as a neighborhood watch volunteer by growing suspicious over an unfamiliar person walking through a neighborhood that had suffered some break-ins.

"I understand how they're able to leap to the conclusion. You have a dead teenager. This guy is white so it must be a hate crime. There's going to be evidence to come out that basically will justify George's concern," Oliver said.
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Guys as bad as these people are...and even the blind the people in the thread are, let's take a minute and not underestimate our progress (which, unfortunately I do often).

Although things haven't changed to the degree we'd like, it has definitely changed. Especially considering back in the 1800's to the early 1900's a black person was lynched by a mob of whites on an average of once a week. They would even make and sell postcards from lynching pictures..profiting off the unjust and unsettling murder of thousands upon thousands of blacks.

Of course, that doesn't mean we stop bringing injustice, hatred, and prejudice to light - because it's quite obvious sifting through this thread and the national reaction of a good amount of folks that its just a different kind than in the past - but it does mean that we are making progress and will continue to.

I HAVE to look at where we are as a community in relation to the past to really appreciate what has happened, and honestly to keep myself from getting depressed about how many ignorant people there are in America today.
 
Foxy Fox 39 said:
Guys as bad as these people are...and even the blind the people in the thread are, let's take a minute and not underestimate our progress (which, unfortunately I do often).

Although things haven't changed to the degree we'd like, it has definitely changed. Especially considering back in the 1800's to the early 1900's a black person was lynched by a mob of whites on an average of once a week. They would even male and sell postcards from lynching pictures..profiting off the unjust and unsettling murder of thousands upon thousands of blacks.

Of course, that doesn't mean we stop bringing injustice, hatred, and prejudice to light - because it's quite obvious sifting through this thread and the national reaction of a good amount of folks that its just a different kind than in the past - but it does mean that we are making progress and will continue to.

I HAVE to look at where we are as a community in relation to the past to really appreciate what has happened, and honestly to keep myself from getting depressed about how many ignorant people there are in America today.
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That is what I have to work on. This whole thing has just been a reminder to the past years of my easy going life.
 
Foxy Fox 39 said:
Guys as bad as these people are...and even the blind the people in the thread are, let's take a minute and not underestimate our progress (which, unfortunately I do often).

Although things haven't changed to the degree we'd like, it has definitely changed. Especially considering back in the 1800's to the early 1900's a black person was lynched by a mob of whites on an average of once a week. They would even make and sell postcards from lynching pictures..profiting off the unjust and unsettling murder of thousands upon thousands of blacks.

Of course, that doesn't mean we stop bringing injustice, hatred, and prejudice to light - because it's quite obvious sifting through this thread and the national reaction of a good amount of folks that its just a different kind than in the past - but it does mean that we are making progress and will continue to.

I HAVE to look at where we are as a community in relation to the past to really appreciate what has happened, and honestly to keep myself from getting depressed about how many ignorant people there are in America today.
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This story and this thread has made me examine my fears and feelings.
 
Foxy Fox 39 said:
I HAVE to look at where we are as a community in relation to the past to really appreciate what has happened, and honestly to keep myself from getting depressed about how many ignorant people there are in America today.
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If you haven't fallen into a depression about this situation yet then consider yourself lucky. This has all hit way to close to home for me :'(
 
Can't believe the fact that Zimmerman's dad was a fucking judge. Zimmerman was probably too stupid to go to law school and was too much of a fuckup to join the police so he goes around acting as authority in a gated community.
 
Saint Gregory said:
If you haven't fallen into a depression about this situation yet then consider yourself lucky. This has all hit way to close to home for me :'(
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Add in the the Hunger Games tweets and the lady who died in jail from clotting because the police took her out of the hospital on tresspassing and resisting arrest charges, and I'm getting mighty close to depression.
 
I love that political cartoon for two reasons:

1 - the idiot that drew it apparently has no idea how books work
2 - she couldn't be bothered to learn the spelling of the name of the person she was slandering

Stay classy, Texas.
 
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