It’s Not RIOTS You Need to Worry About,....It’s MORE ZIMMERMANS

[Segami]

On July 13, Jay Smooth, who among many things does a hip-hop radio show in New York and occasional music commentary on NPR and is the son of an African American father and a white mother, got to the real problem of an acquittal for George Zimmerman for the killing of Trayvon Martin. Via the Obama Diary, Smooth tweeted:

"..The fundamental danger of an acquittal is not more riots, it is more George ZImmermans..."

— jay smooth (@jsmooth995) July 13, 2013

https://twitter.com/jsmooth995/statuses/356108626139680771

Now that the acquittal has happened, the angry whites at Fox News are fear-mongering about the inevitable “riots” of “those people”. Yet there have been no riots, oddly enough, given the magnitude of the injustice. Let’s not gloss over the inferred wrongness of a “riot” by the angry whites at Fox (also known these days as the Republican Party, or conservatives). They would call any demonstration a “riot” (they just did this in Texas against women). When the people they’re doing wrong speak up, they call it a “riot”. This is supposed to mark the victim as the bad one in the court of public opinion (aka, the mainstream media), which is still run by mostly white men, just like our courts.



But it’s not the victimized minority we need to fear. Nope. It’s the empowered Zimmermans. Finding Zimmerman not guilty is the same thing as rewarding sick aggression without cause. There’s a whole lot more where that came from. Stalking someone without cause is now “defense” in NRA America, courtesy of the Republican Party. Now that Zimmerman got off, thanks to a terrible job by the prosecution who, let’s face it, seemed to be happy to have lost and it wouldn’t surprise me if he was under some pressure to do so, the next Zimmerman is dusting off his/her short fuse and getting ready to go hunting. Yes, hunting.



What else do you call chasing down an innocent person, confronting them because you profiled them (I was recently robbed by a white man, do I have the right now to chase every white man with a gun?) because another, unrelated person of the same color allegedly committed a crime in the neighborhood? If that’s all it takes to justify chasing and gunning someone down, then every single person in this country is at risk of being profiled. But not every single person in this country is at risk of being shot down and having their shooter acquitted. That’s because our justice system is not color blind or blind to the sex of the accused and the victim. White men fare better in our system for obvious reasons- white men run the system and they tend to sympathize with those they identify with; those who remind them of themselves. I am ashamed of this country tonight, and horrified that we have let out public policy be hijacked by the NRA to such an extent that we can gun down fellow citizens with no repercussions.


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http://www.politicususa.com/2013/07/14/its-riots-worry-about-its-zimmermans.html

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[Skittles]

1. Stalking someone without cause is now “defense” in NRA America

yup - you can now start an incident, then end it with a gun - sick, SICK shit

[Art_from_Ark]

3. Sick shit

INDEED

[Skittles]

4. it get sicker by the minute

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/13/george-zimmerman-gun_n_3593185.html

[Art_from_Ark]

8. You're right

Damn. I am just dumbfounded by these events

[Segami]

13. Rest assured, you haven't heard the last

of such acts. The ' Stand-Your-Ground ' defense has made it open season for one to act out their hatred.

[Skittles]

17. it's a gun humping coward's wet dream

[calimary]

2. This is my great dread now.

Any tin-plated vigilante with a messiah complex and a hard-on to be some twisted ten-cent Rambo knock-off now has cover, and clearance, to shoot somebody they decide they don't like. Profiling is okay now. Even amateur profiling. So is stalking. Even better and more delicious when it's coupled with a concealed weapon.

Good Grief - what have we come to? Sheesh - add this to the evisceration of the Voting Rights Act, and it's a VERY grim day.

And to think ... five years or so ago, I actually allowed myself to think that maybe America had finally turned a page, and had gotten beyond shit like this. Discouraging. REALLY discouraging.

[UserNSAv32]

5. It will become open season on blacks in America once again

Especially in a certain region of the country which has a history of murdering black people just for the hell of it.

Sadly the murder Zimmerman is going to be the new hero of the right and the gun nutters for a long time now we live in a sick sad country.

So who is proud to be an American now?

[47of74]

10. At times like this not me.

There are times I wish I could move. Such as after this verdict.

[Cronus Protagonist]

11. Is this how the brownshirts got started?

[drynberg]

7. IF YOU LIKED THE OLD BARBARISM YOU'RE GONNA LOVE

The New Barbarism...Florida is NOT part of a Nation of Laws...Just boycott these sickos and encourage those we love to get the frig out of there now.

[Hoyt]

9. I think is absolutely necessary to press for tougher gun laws, and intolerance of bigots with guns.

[truebluegreen]

12. Exactly right, and the worst possible outcome.

[malaise]

14. First they enslaved us, destroyed our families, raped and lynched us at will

then they Jim Crowed us, provided little or no education, few jobs, created new laws to throw our sons, brothers, cousins, nephews, grandchildren into prison for ganja and now they kill another innocent teenager for fucking 'self defense' when Zimmerman was the stalker and the man with a gun
all because 'they are afraid of us'.

You know why they hate Obama, Holder and all of us - After all those atrocities, the mere thought of payback should be frightening.



Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!!

[Segami]

15. I believe this is far from over.

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Let this jury decision set in and watch the next 3 - 5 days of ground swelling developments (if any ).

[malaise]

16. This is the American Stephen Lawrence - it's far from over

Yes two of the bastards were sent to prison 18 years later but it is still going on because his parents intend to get justice for their innocent son.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/lawrence

[Segami]

19. My, my malaise,..some would label you a conspiracy nut

for even raising a remote comparison between the two events.

It really is far from over!

[GiaGiovanni]

18. All of the protests have been peaceful; it's the carte blanche to vigilantes that worries me

I have a feeling Zimmerman would have been convicted in California.