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Why do you think Trayvon Martin's Case is getting so much attention?

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by wizkid83, Mar 30, 2012.

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Why do you think Trayvon Martin's Case is getting so much attention?

  1. Victim was black

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    17.2%
  2. The fact that the shooter isn't being charged with a crime

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    41.4%
  3. Both options

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    41.4%
  1. thegary

    thegary Member

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    and you know this for a fact, right?
     
  2. NotInMyHouse

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    Nothing like guilt-ridden liberals getting angry at people who don't agree with them when they see those people have a different opinion.

    See, anyone can do that.

    Im not really conservative just like you're not really a minority, so why blatantly stereotype as such? A few people with conservative views also do not makeup the majority of the group.

    Do you believe if the circumstances were the same, but the victim was white/hispanic/asian the media circus would be the same? Would Obama have spoken out? Hooodies on this him? Black Panther bounties? Why is there so much focus on the race of the victim and shooter? Hardly anyone is crooning about the law in this case because those who profess to speak for the black community are mostly race-peddlers for their own self-interest.

    It's a real distraction from, as you said, focusing on the law itself.
     
  3. tallanvor

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    no more than Chevious does.
     
  4. thegary

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    so it makes it okay for you to try to make an absolute over pure speculation?
     
  5. Space Ghost

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    If you really believe this has national media attention has anything for any other reason except race, you're a fool.

    Do you really think this would have national media attention if it was black on black, white on white or hispanic on hispanic? I don't think so.
     
  6. tallanvor

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    yes. It's called an opinion. Same way Chevious has a different opinion on the exact same issue. Grow up
     
  7. thegary

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    i'm a grown man, son. i don't posit bull**** like you unless i'm taking a piss. as your brother would say, think critically. don't be such an obvious tool.
     
  8. Major

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    Did you ever consider that the key difference in this case was that the police *didn't* do their job, and that's what made it unique? I'm pretty sure both black and white people get killed by both black and white people all the time in this country, and most don't become national stories.

    This story didn't become national news because of race. It became national news because of all the weirdness of the circumstances and the apparent lack of interest by the police.
     
  9. mc mark

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    Question: Does anyone think the black would be walking around free if it had gone the other way and Zimmerman was lying on the ground dead?
     
  10. thegary

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    good question.
     
  11. mc mark

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    Woah! You own a bar now?

    I did not know this.

    linky?
     
  12. Rocketman95

    Rocketman95 Hangout Boy

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    Yes, I'm sure he could care a lot less.
     
  13. thegary

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    sent you an email thru board, did you get?
     
  14. RocketRaccoon

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    You're a complete butthole for asking this. What the hell does this have to do with anything? WHAT? I agree with Crash so you're going to question my experience too? Come on. Try me. Please test my experience because I will drown you with the loneliness of racism.
     
  15. mc mark

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    yep! How cool! Congrats!

    I'll see ya soon!
     
  16. ChievousFTFace

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    It's hard to understand hate and racism unless you've experienced it first hand. It's a simple question.
     
  17. crash5179

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    So if a black man is not arrested after killing a white man while playing basketball with his daughter the police are doing there job.

    But if a white / latino man kills a young black man while on neighborhood watch but is not arrested the police are not doing their jobs.

    You don't see the hypocrisy in what you are suggesting?
     
  18. crash5179

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    This has already been proven. The police did not arrest Trevor Dooley a black man, after he shot and killed a white man while playing basketball with his daughter.
     
  19. crash5179

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    How would you know, your white.

    See how it works now?

    And btw don't you find just a tad bit racist to just assume what my ethnicity is because I disagree with your views of racism?
     
  20. ChievousFTFace

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    Try being jewish and being attacked in a parking lot by 2 hispanic dudes talking about how "hitler should have finished the job."

    I was forever changed by seeing the hate in their eyes. Luckily I got away unscathed.
     

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