25 year old man murdered in Georgia for jogging while black

The elder Mcmichael worked in law enforcement and/or prosecutor's and the son I read somewhere worked at the prosecutors ofc as well.

 

Well, information and education can't save us all from terrible judgment. Damn idiots.

 

redneck is a racial slur. It is amazing how you see racism everywhere but where it actually exists.

 

You’re right. I hope he can at least acknowledging it.

 

Redneck does not fit into the protected minority status.

 

Redneck is not a racist term. It may be derogatory but it isn't based on race.

 

Ironically, most of my family and/or acquaintances that would be stereotyped as rednecks, carry that badge with pride.

 

True. I should have said that it may or may not be derogatory. Excellent point.

 

No no no.... It's OK when they say it this way. That's not a hateful context....I personally abhor the word. It's insulting and it's a racial slur. And people who wave it around, like a rebel flag, well, they might actually deserve to be called it but still I wouldn't.

 

It isn't racial. I'm not sure why you are so super sensitive when it comes to things perceived to be against the white race.

 

It's explicitly racial....

 

No, it isn't. But maybe if white rednecks would stop wasting their time complaining about everything being about race and actually started working, going to school and bettering themselves they might actually be able to make a better life for themselves.

 

That entire song is satire making fun of rednecks, btw.

 

Just dont pronounce the hard neck

 

redneck is not a racial slur. It refers to hillbillies - literally a reference to the burn that farmers would get on the back of their neck working in the fields.

A RACIAL slur is derogatory to an entire RACE - not to a subset. Of course you don't get that.

 

ok Karen.

 

Here's a link to coverage by I believe local media in Georgia. This one is about the most recently unveiled security video from the construction site, taken 12 days before the killing, as well as the 911 call made by a seemingly freaked out Travis McMichael.

But the archive of reports, seen in the bottom half of the page, is also pretty comprehensive.

https://www.news4jax.com/news/local...ion-site-12-days-before-ahmaud-arberys-death/

I have to say, the video to me doesn't seem to show a guy who just ran into the house and was trying to hide, as Travis McMichael says. He just looks like a relaxed guy checking out a construction site. But I doubt these videos will be changing the opinions of people who have decided their opinion already and just want to defend their position.

 

You racist soooon