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[Vilix]

No one was accusing Zimmerman of committing a hate crime.

Seriously, I don't even...

Yes people did. They knew it in their "hearts" he was a racist. But now, for some off reason, this has nothing to do with racism or gang culture even though the black kid made racist remarks and threw gangs signs up while holding a shotgun.

 

[Watch Da Birdie]

Honestly, I think the main issue of racism in the Martin case wasn't so much Zimmerman himself (although I do believe he racially profiled Martin, even if you can argue he had a legitimate reason to given the string of break-ins that were reported, race definitely played a factor), rather all the creeps coming out and cheering him on for what he did and running Treyvon through the dirt.

I think what is making some people upset is that if this story were exactly the same except that the races were reversed it would be treated 100% differently by the media.

Yes.

The victim would be blamed for being at the wrong place at the wrong time, he'd be called a thug, probably accused of being on steroids, asking for it, etc.

One of the teens tweets how he hates white people and then commits the murder? Seems like a hate crime to me.

The Tweet was from April though, he didn't right out go and kill a white dude right then. That's, imo, the difference...there's no proof that the actual killing was racially motivated, because clearly something else pushed him this far.

 

[General Patton]

Exactly. Mostly White. Dude makes Terrence Howard look like Denzel Washington. If he was any fairer he would be unquestionably White.

I mean, unless you're using some measure other than 50%+1

You're off you're face if you think he's predominantly white. He's clearly black.

 

[Bodacious]

No one was accusing Zimmerman of committing a hate crime.

Seriously, I don't even...

What did you think all that chatter about whether Holder and the DOJ would be bringing federal (hate crime) charges was about??

 

[i_am_ben]

this thread is crazy.

 

[shanshan310]

I think what is making some people upset is that if this story were exactly the same except that the races were reversed it would be treated 100% differently by the media.

Wait, people actually care about "what if the the people in this situation had different skin colours" ? um.... why? The shooters were of varying races anyway. Why does it matter? The kids are thugs no matter that their race, the guy was a promising sportsman killed in his prime in a foreign country no matter what his race. Why does this even have to be about race? Because there was a black person involved?!

 

[SuWeDi]

You're off you're face if you think he's predominantly white. He's clearly black.

White mother + African american father (white blood mix %) = NOT clearly black!

+ have a white stepfather and 2 fully white siblings, so...



+ shanshan310 is wright!

 

[General Patton]

+ have a white stepfather and 2 fully white siblings, so...

How on earth has that got anything to do with his race?

 

[Enzom21]

Wait, people actually care about "what if the the people in this situation had different skin colours" ? um.... why? The shooters were of varying races anyway. Why does it matter? The kids are thugs no matter that their race, the guy was a promising sportsman killed in his prime in a foreign country no matter what his race. Why does this even have to be about race? Because there was a black person involved?!

Yes they care... apparently to some people here, there's a roving band of murderous negroes out to kill every white person in the country.

If Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson would just speak out about it, these savages would leave all the nice white people alone.

 

[Instigator]

"mostly white"

Yeah, it's good GAF don't pick on minorities but they really take their white guilt to a ridiculous extreme.

 

[way more]

Fox News has a exciting new theory to explain was really motivated the teens.

First of all, we have to start with the fact that since 1973.... These kids are survivors. They could have been aborted. And that's a fact. And people don't realize. They're post-Roe v Wade, and therefore there's a thing called "survivor syndrome." There's a psychiatrist up in Canada, Dr. Philip Ney, has studied this for decades and shown the effect. Just the fact that you could have been aborted can affect you as a survivor of Roe v Wade.

Video at link

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_facto...commentator_janet_morana_blames_abortion.html

 

[FieryBalrog]

Ok? I don't even know what your addressing here

I might just be addressing the shitty article you dragged in. It wasn't that hard to figure out considering I quoted you and quoted the article.

 

[Ekdrm2d1]

2 teens accused in 'thrill kill' of Australian student-athlete plead not guilty
By Vivian Kuo and Greg Botelho | Thursday, March 20, 2014 | cnn.com

(CNN) -- Two teenagers accused in a random "thrill kill" that left a 23-year-old college athlete from Australia dead pleaded not guilty Thursday to first-degree murder charges, an Oklahoma district attorney said.

Chancey Allen Luna, 16, and Michael Dewayne Jones, 18, entered the pleas at their arraignment Thursday inside of a Stephens County courthouse, said Jason Hicks, the district attorney serving that area.

Hicks couldn't offer more details of what transpired inside the courtroom or the case because of a gag order.

Among those in attendance was Sarah Harper, the girlfriend of the victim, Christopher Lane.

Police say the teenagers shot Lane -- who was attending East Central University on a baseball scholarship -- last August as he was jogging in Duncan, a town of about 23,000 people located some 80 miles southwest of Oklahoma City.

Luna, Jones and a third teenager -- James Francis Edwards, Jr. -- saw Lane passing by and shot him because "they had nothing to do," according to authorities.

As the teenagers sped away, Duncan police Chief Danny Ford told CNN affiliate KSWO that "there were some people that saw (Lane) stagger across the road, go to a kneeling position and collapse on the side of the road."

When police arrested the teens, one of them offered a motive that made clear that Lane was chosen at random.

"He said the motive was, 'We were going to kill somebody,'" Ford told Australian radio station 3AW.
After their arrest, all three alleged assailants were charged as adults, according to Kaylee Chandler, the Stephens County Court Clerk.

The shooting shook many around the college town like Sam Malchar, who called his classmate and teammate Lane "a charming guy, genuinely good person, with great character and ... a love for life."

It also reverberated some 10,000 miles away in Lane's native Australia, from which some called for a U.S. tourism boycott. Former Australian Deputy Prime Minister Tim Fischer characterized the slaying as "another example of murder mayhem on Main Street."

A judge on Thursday set Luna and Jones' trial date for August 18, which is when a jury term starts.

The other implicated teen, Edwards, is scheduled to be in court for a preliminary hearing on May 13.

Edwards' older sister, Rachel Padilla, told CNN last summer that her brother had been in trouble with police before for fighting, but was not a vicious person, and she never thought he might kill someone.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/20/justice/australia-athlete-thrill-kill/index.html?hpt=hp_t2