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In reply to the discussion: Breaking: Jurors Start Deliberations in George Zimmerman Case [View all]tblue
(16,350 posts)31. "for being black"
That's EXACTLY right. If you're a black man you have less of a right to walk home from the freaking store!!!! It's your fault! You shouldn't've been there. You should have had a white escort I guess. Or maybe your grandmother with you, or a couple of nuns.
I am LIVID over the way black men in this country are still discounted as citizens and as human beings. I just read Victor Davis Hanson's op piece in the paper. He thinks this case is just "prosecutorial overreach in response to the furor whipped up by racialists like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton." Yes, in 2013 conservative writers still produce bigoted garbage like this.
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One word, six letters. Guilty. Guilty of gun extremism, overt racism, and murder. nt
onehandle
Jul 2013
#7
Don't forget that TM was able to do all of this damage while holding a bag of Skittles,
displacedtexan
Jul 2013
#28
Actually, the police report states that the skittles were found in Trayvon's pocket
onenote
Jul 2013
#29
He began it because there were no witnesses and he thought he could get away with shoooting him.
bushisanidiot
Jul 2013
#14
There was only 4" differences in their heights, but cardboard cutouts were about 1 foot difference.
bushisanidiot
Jul 2013
#11
every dangerous person I've had to deal with, or protect myself from, has been white.
Voice for Peace
Jul 2013
#41
Zimmerman's " punks always get away" attitude is stuck in my mind. So Zimmerman was
lumpy
Jul 2013
#32
If the cop who "accidentally" killed Oscar Grant could serve time for manslaughter,
alp227
Jul 2013
#22