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Trayvon Martin

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Rocket River, Mar 10, 2012.

  1. g1184

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    To provide the whole truth, a jury was disappointed that the laws were written in a way that prevented them from finding him guilty.
     
  2. chrispbrown

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    Why should he stay in hiding? Because he was the focus of one of the most controversial trials in years. Every slip up will be all over the news. He can't stay out of trouble it seems he would be much better served staying close to family and out of the spot light to protect himself from himself.

    Also, why did his wife divorce him after he was found innocent? Wouldn't the woman who is supposed to be your biggest supporter feel for you as the victim of media as the silly people here like to say?

    After more than a year of what has to be the most stressful, painful, point of your life, capped off by a split from your wife, you decided its a great time to enter a new relationship?

    It is all so weird.
     
  3. Space Ghost

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    This wasn't very controversial. It was whipped up media frenzy. You can call the Casey trial controversial, but not this one.
     
  4. chrispbrown

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    Do you even know the definition of controversial? Is 500+ pages of people arguing either side not enough? We are still talking about it nearly 6 months later?
     
  5. Space Ghost

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    Being ignorant and being controversial are two different things.
     
  6. B-Bob

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    Sadly, even if the media has undue influence (and I would agree with that aspect in this case), "controversial" is decided ultimately by the public, not some pristine benchmarking process that a few smart people get to decide. Sorry. "of, producing, or marked by controversy." This passes that basic definition, and how.

    -2 points for calling anyone who disagrees with your take "ignorant".
     
  7. chrispbrown

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    Yes they are...

    Ask people's opinion about the case (see past 500 pgs) and you will find out right away it is not one sided, there are hundreds of differing opinions, which is basically the definition on controversial.

    If being ignorant is believing GZ is a bad guy, then so be it. For me it follows logically that a guy who is repeatedly in trouble with the law or at least having run ins, Is more likely a bad guy than good.

    The supporters logic is that he is not a bad guy bc the media skews opinions. That has no logic.
     
  8. Space Ghost

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    There was very little evidence. There were no reliable witnesses. This should have never been in the national spotlight. This "controversy" was whipped up by a media frenzy and ignorant speculation. This has nothing to do with race. Or skittles. Or Tea. Or Lean. Or any other unbased speculation that had nothing to do with the trial.

    The real controversy is why race had to be such a big deal. If it was white on white or black on black, nobody would have cared.
     
  9. bigtexxx

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    That's where the race hustlers come into the picture. Sharpton, Jessie Jackson, Ben Crump -- they all made a ton of money off this tragedy. Obama even got his benefits from stoking the racial flames (needed those blacks in Florida to vote for him!). It was one of the more disgusting displays of using race to their advantage that I've ever seen. These men also have blood on their hands, due to all the black-on-white violence in the name of Trayvon that resulted from their pimping of this story. It highlights just how low some will go for personal benefit.
     
  10. SkyrimOwnsAll

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    man stop crying like a little girl
     
  11. bigtexxx

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    I guess this didn't show up on CNN? You sure are quick to dismiss it...

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    After arrest of Zimmerman:

    April 2012 Ohio – Elderly white man Dallas Watts beaten by six juveniles in Ohio while they yelled – THIS IS FOR TRAYVON
    April 2012 Chicago – Two black teen beat up a white male in because “they were mad about Trayvon Martin case”
    April 2012 Gainesville, Florida – 5 to 8 could blacks attack white man leaving permanent damage to face while yelling Trayvon
    April 2012 Baltimore – Black mob beats white tourist in Baltimore – crowd laughs and steals his belongings
    April 2012 Arizona – Black male shoots and kills 29 year old ‘white-Hispanic’ Daniel Adkinswho had mental capacity of a 12-year-old
    April 2012 Oklahoma – Tyrone Woodfork beats to death elderly couple – rapes 85 year old woman
    May 2012 Texas - Black man Matthew Lee Johnson robs, sets 76 year old Nancy Harris on fire– she died from her injuries
    May 2012 Texas – Antowann Davis takes butcher knife stabs 29 year old Martha Jones at Target store in Dallas
    May 2012 Georgia – Black mob of three beats to death Marine and Iraq War Veteran
    May 2012 Virginia – Mob of between 30-100 black teens brutally beat white male and female reporters
    May 2012 Tampa Florida – Four blacks beat and rob young U.S. Army soldier
    June 2012 Georgia – Two black teens allegedly stab to death white pizza delivery woman and mother.
    July 2012 Indiana – 24-year-old Jacqueline Gardner (Mother of two) ‘allgedly’ killed by three blacks over $85 tip money
    July 2013 Georgia – Joshua Chellew beaten, killed by four blacks
    After not guilty verdict for Zimmerman:
    July 2013 Baltimore – Blacks yell ‘This is for Trayvon’ beat up Hispanic in Baltimore
    July 2013 Houston – Blacks assault white grandmother in Houston during Trayvon protests
    July 2013 South Carolina – Marley Lion 17 year old shot to death by four black gangbagers for no reason
    July 2013 Connecticut – Five or six black teens for the savage beating of a New Haven Connecticut businessman, steal scooter
    July 2013 Maryland – 3 black thugs beat, rob white man in Maryland yelling this is for Trayvon Martin
    August 2013 Oklahoma – Australian baseball player Chris Lane killed by two black teens because ‘they were bored.’
    August 2013 Memphis – David Santucci murdered ‘allegedly’ by 3 blacks in Trayvon Martin revenge killing
    August 2013 Spokane – Delbert Belton World War II veteran beaten to death by two black thugs
    August 2013 Memphis – Two blacks douse white man with gasoline, set on fire
    August 2013 Poughkeepsie New York – Jovan Tyrek Rogers black thug kills 99-year-old Fannie Gumbinger
    - See more at: http://www.redflagnews.com/headline...te-attacks-since-trayvon#sthash.Kl8DDEqa.dpuf
    http://www.redflagnews.com/headline...te-attacks-since-trayvon#sthash.Kl8DDEqa.dpbs
     
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    I'm pretty sure they were voting for him anyway.
     
  13. bigtexxx

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    he needed to get them fired up in order to show up at the polls.

    "if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon"

    shameful
     
  14. SkyrimOwnsAll

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    who cares
     
  15. bigtexxx

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    so you only care about hispanic-on-black crime?

    lol
     
  16. fchowd0311

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    lol at the source
     
  17. OmegaSupreme

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    why the lol? :confused: this is serious.
     
  18. bigtexxx

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    that's all you can offer? Which of those incidents do you dispute?
     
  19. chrispbrown

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    Srsly, no agenda if you call are calling one race thugs, mobs. Disregard that it is a list of 20-30 black on other crimes in 2 years...LOL
     
  20. Rashmon

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    That's because...
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