I made a series of comments on Booman’s article Trayvon Martin: The Prez Can’t Win opposing what is going on in this case. I seem to be one of only a few people here who think that we should back off and let the facts speak for themselves. Have the facts spoken yet? No, they have not. Instead we have had possible pro-Zimmerman attitudes from the local authorities and a huge chorus of anti-Zimmerman yelps from almost the entire media system and from those who pay it much serious attention as well.
But one of the most recent comments…from Tarheel Dem, who is usually above such foolishness…was the last straw as far as I am concerned.
Here is the sentence that put me over the edge:
It is now likely that Zimmerman is now a flight risk.
“Flight risk!!!???”
He’s got a $10,000 bounty on his ass!
New Black Panther Party Offers $10K Bounty For George Zimmerman
Mikhail Muhammad of the New Black Panther Party speaks to the media next to a memorial to Trayvon Martin outside The Retreat at Twin Lakes community where Trayvon was shot and killed by George Michael Zimmerman.
Now…I don’t know who these jokers are, but if I was Mr. Zimmerman and I saw them saying this shit in my neighborhood? I would not only be a flight risk, I’d be disappeared before I finished reading the article.
This illustrates exactly what I have been saying here, and I am truly ashamed to be even a peripheral, opposing part of this reverse lynch mob. ‘Cuz that is exactly what is going down in this case. A national lynch mob, driven by racial politics, media hype and not a shred else. Get your heads straight, O high and mighty “progressives.”
You have once again been had.
STAMPEDE!!!
The Attack Of The Liberal Zombies
Clomp clomp clomp clomp clomp clomp clomp.
String ’em up!!! Goddamned racist killer!!!
Read on for more if your mind is not already so tightly shut that it would take a good oyster shucker to get it open again.
Read on and think, goddamnit!
Now…did our original fine, white supremacist lynch mobs occasionally also string up real criminals? I suppose so. But the act was still wrong, and you all know that it was. But in this case?
Oh, no!!! It was a hate crime, fer sure!!!”
Prove it or shut the fuck up until all the facts are in.
Please.
1-The kid was suspended from high school because he was busted w/a bag of marijuana leavings. Does that automatically make him a bad kid? No, of course it doesn’t. But it also means that he was no saint, for sure.
2-There are a 911 call, an eyewitness account, and physical evidence of injury that all point towards the fact that Zimmerman was indeed under physical attack and losing. Does that mean he should not have confronted the kid in the first place? Shot him? No, but it does mean that something other than this supposed “vicious, racist killing of an unarmed, innocent, sweet-faced young boy” was happening.
3-Trayvon Martin was 17 years old. He played football and appears to have decked this grown man with one punch. That sweet picture of him, the one that’s being used to fuel this whole dustup by our OH so impartial media??
I teach kids this age almost every weekend who are from the same sort of middle-class/working class/mixed-race neighborhoods as this boy came from…the Newark area version (I live in one as well, inna Bronx.)…and lemme tell you right now, it looks to me like that’s about a 14 year old boy in that picture, not 17. Those 3 years can make a world of difference in how kids look and how they act, especially if they’re getting high and acting out. Bet on it.
This rush to judgement is absolutely unconscionable. Lay the fuck off and let’s see if the Omertican InJustice system can get its act together here.
At long last, folks…have you no decency left? Must it all be about politics now?
Really.
Please.
AG
