I simply mistyped the date. the link verifies the date as February 26th. What a joke. First you claim hoodies are tied to gang persona (ridiculous) then you claim people shouldn't wear hoodies unless its raining (check) or cold (check) and now you want to backtrack. Now the standard for wearing a hoodie isn't the temperature but an actual blizzard. Lame as hell.
This thread is disgusting. Once again, it's the same handful of posters who show that prejudice, racism and intolerance are still alive and well in America. It's these same posters that perpetuate hate, and the same that label young black men and women as thugs. There's no sense arguing with someone that has been conditioned by their political and sociological beliefs to be racially-insensitive and downright bigoted. They try to claim neutrality, but anyone with a half a brain cell can see past the crap.
A temperature of 64 is shirt sleeve weather, not hoodie weather. Regardless, a big "dude" hiding his face who circles around and attacks someone risks getting shot, maced, tasered or otherwise injured or killed. That's just reality.
Actually there's no sense arguing with people who weren't smart enough to know they had been duped by a skittles, ice tea and hoodie narrative that got rejected in court just like they were told by many. Racists like Sharpton and Jackson are the disgusting poverty pimps who were injecting race where race wasn't a factor.
The reality is that you got caught in your own statements so you want to amend them further to blame the victim for having the audacity to wear a hoodie in 64 degree rainy weather while he was minding his own business. You have no evidence Trayvon attacked anyone. Keep on with your BS.
See my reply above. However, if you want to criticize Zimmerman for carrying a gun, I'll agree with you. If you want to criticize Martin for not going home rather than circling around to confront/attack Zimmerman, I'll agree with you. If you want to criticize people for saying that killers, regardless of race, are representative of a particular race, I will agree with you. In fact, on the latter point, if you will go back a couple of pages you will find that I already did. My point has been this: Martin's death was a tragedy but was not racially motivated. Remember, he took a black girl to his high school prom, mentored black children and voted as a Democrat for Obama. None of those I suspect would earn him KKK points. Go back 150 years or so and I would have been volunteering on the underground railroad. Heck, 50 years ago I was marching in the streets for civil rights with my close friend Winston (you may rightly infer he was -- and is -- black). Today, the world has changed, but there are those who have a vested interest in promoting the racial divide because they can milk the racial poison for power (votes) and money. I rail against that. I always will rail against that.
I'm only going on the testimony as to an attack and the corroborating evidence of the 4-minute lapse when it would have taken him about 30 seconds to get home.
The problem is we don't have full access to all of the information from the case. So many people act as if they do (on both sides) and use that to belittle the equally ignorant reactions from "the other side". Personally, I'm still in awe of Obama's comments, and not in a good way. I certainly didn't get much Martin Luther King out of his message. The underlying theme of all of this is that Americans on both "sides" are waiting for opportunity to champion their "side" of this issue. There's a major passive-aggressive superiority/inferiority complex going here. And everyone is too emotionally charged to acknowledge any fault on their side. We are not all Trayvon. That stuff doesn't sit right with me. That message in context doesn't promote the kind of societal harmony we need. Just my 2 cents... hate away.
I'm sorry man but you're a really ignorant person. You serve only to divide. Just like btex...You guys are just filled with evil and only to instigate hate.
Actually the problem is that this thread has nothing to do with Trayvon. Just another hateful attempt to keep making him a monster after his death. How can you expect social harmony when you have bigots that create tension with this type of bullsh**?
I fail to see the ignorance you confer upon me, except that I am stating the obvious. If someone jumps you and starts punching and beating you, especially when your attacker is bigger, taller and stronger than you, will you not defend yourself in any way you can? Your actual complaint is based upon fear of discourse and distaste for an obverse opinion. BTW, I have not seen evidence that anyone here, including me, is trying to make Martin a "monster." Both combatants share in the causes leading to Martin's untimely death. People like you consciously strive to disrupt any chance we as a nation have to finally achieve "racial harmony."
It's a false pretense you're making that anyone has to be a racist to profile someone. Black cops profile black people, perhaps not as often but they do. Profiling isn't as simple as he's a KKK member or he's clean.
I'm not discussing the TM case. A jury made a verdict and that's fine by me. What I can't understand is the purpose of bringing him up and comparing him to the animals in the OP. You say you're a Latino...do you have kids?
Racial profiling has nothing to do with whether or not you have done x,y,or z. You can be a saint and still racial profile. I think GZ thought TM was a crook partly because of his race. Does that make him a racist? no. But it does show that blacks suffer from unwarranted suspicion at times because of stereotypes - and that's something people on the right can not comprehend.
there's really nothing wrong with profiling. it's how we stay alert and safe. would you not be a little weary at night with some big dudes wearing a hoodie? nothing wrong with profiling and nothing racist about it.
Sure I can. According to my parents, when they were married my mom was asked to leave her apartment because my Hispanic father was not welcome there. That's the way it was for a mixed race couple back in the early 40s. They didn't use it as a crutch or an excuse for failure. They didn't lay blame or demonstrate anger. They just marched forward into the future. I didn't even know about their hardships until my college years. And, yes, I'm very, very proud of them and thankful to have such wonderful role models. The stereotypes often are self-created. If your culture is welfare and gangs, the culture engenders fear and disdain. If your culture is hard work and generosity, the culture engenders warmth and kinship. A person, regardless of race, creed, sex, etc., at some point chooses his or her own culture.
