George Zimmerman's victory lap over Trayvon Martin’s grave

[struggle4progress]

BY LEONARD PITTS, JR.

... Sam Hose ... was .. lynched by a mob .. in 1899 ... They stabbed him, castrated him, skinned his face, mutilated him, burned him alive ...

You could buy a small fragment of his bones for a quarter. A piece of his liver .. would set you back a dime. The great African-American scholar, W.E.B. DuBois, reported .. Hose’s knuckles.. for sale in a grocer’s window ...

Sam Hose was not unique. People claimed hundreds, thousands, of trophies from the murders of African Americans. They kept bones. They kept sexual organs. They kept photographs of themselves, posed with mutilated corpses ... So perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised to see it happen with Trayvon ...

http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article78242467.html

[JustAnotherGen]

1. Pitts summed it up pretty well

As usual!

[redwitch]

2. The responses to Mr. Pitts are sickening.

Will such vile racism ever die? I am happy to say I do not know anyone this awful. George Zimmerman is a murdering thug. How can Trayvon Martin rest in peace while his killer walks free and boasts of his murder?

[Bettie]

4. Never read the comments

they will just tell you that there are humans out there who incredibly vile.

Good article though.

[Initech]

5. Really wish I hadn't.

[ejbr]

6. The responses are,

unfortunately, proving Mr. Pitts's point. It appears these types will be around for a while. A black person minding his business can be stalked and then killed with no recourse because he wears a hoodie and feared for his own life

[roody]

7. Trayvon is dead. He is resting.

The living struggle to rest peacefully.

[Blue_Tires]

14. But not unexpected, sadly...

[tom_kelly]

20. I wouldn't think I know anyone that would post

such awful things (I didn't read these but have in the past on similar stories) but how do I know? The anonimmity of the internet makes it so easy for latent personalities to surface as long as nobody knows the real poster. A sad reality.

[Baitball Blogger]

3. Agree. A national disgrace.

[libodem]

8. That whole trial was a travesty

And this makes me mad all over again.

[HughBeaumont]

9. "A nation founded, rooted and deeply invested in the canard of native black criminality . . .

. . . . very much needed to believe Zimmerman’s improbable tale of self-defense, very much needed to find a way for the boy to be guilty of his own murder.

And so he was."

Just like Tamir Rice after him. These ruthless motherfuckers blamed a 12 year old boy for his own death and got away with it. Timothy Loehmann, who belongs in prison, still walks free and, unless someone says otherwise, still holds a badge.

[lunatica]

10. Zimmerman is a pariah and everyone knows it

Trayvon is one of the reasons the movement Black Lives Matter has come to be.

I say let Zimmermann keep ramming his ugly racist head into our consciousness because our support of Black Lives Matter is going to get stronger with every reminder of the murder of the child by the most cowardly slimy type of person on earth.

I'll be damned if I give that man one more ounce of power.

[Nay]

11. Just so awful. Here's a poem from a Russian poet, written right after WW2.

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The wind is level now,
The earth is wet with dew,
The storm of stars in the sky will turn to quiet.
And soon all of us will sleep under the earth,
We who never let each other sleep above it.
-- Maria Tsvetayeva

[Blue_Tires]

12. Kick for justice

[Thespian2]

13. K & R

I have great respect for the writing of Leonard Pitts, Jr....George Zimmerman should never live a peaceful moment until he dies...

[BumRushDaShow]

15. K&R

[Hekate]

16. KnR

Zimmerman is a waste of oxygen. I hope he ends up living in a cardboard box.

[gregcrawford]

17. Zimmerman is the embodiment...

... of all that is shameful and evil in our society. He will get what he deserves sooner or later, and few will mourn his passing.

[harris8]

18. K & R, and a suggestion:

Please, please, resist the temptation to look at the comments after the editorial. I shouldn't have looked, but did. How nauseating. There are some freaking hateful people in this country.

[Skittles]

19. the people who let him walk should be ashamed of themselves

how they ever bought his ridiculous story, I will NEVER understand

[maindawg]

21. This is a direct result

Of the NRA and ALEC. It's very simple. These are evil people who legalize murder ,incite fear and promote hate and sell weapons and ammo etc. The US Congress should investigate ALEC. They conspire to defraud the American people . The conspire to strip us of our rights. The most important thing we have is our rights. Because when you get down to it, all you really have are your basic human rights. Why then don't you ever fight for them ?

[Dont call me Shirley]

23. The DOJ should investigate, then shut down alec for racketeering.

[xocet]

22. K&R for Pitts' writing the truth. n/t

[Dont call me Shirley]

24. Powerful writing. Thanks for posting, struggle4progress!

[elljay]

25. I lived in Atlanta

many years ago and clearly remember when my very nice neighbor proudly showed me an old photo of his grandfather in their Alabama hometown. He was among dozens of men, all wearing their finest sheets and Klan ensignia. He explained to me how the Klan actually was a self-defense organization and I really think he believed it. I was, and remain, sick to my stomach.

[bonzo925]

26. its hard to know with Zimmerman

maybe Martin didn't have to die - but if someone is attacking you, I can see how you might panic.

[hopemountain]

28. don't hang around for too long.

is this george?

[bonzo925]

29. no

I mean here's the thing - most lefties (myself included) are pro-defendant. But it seems like the type of people who are so wanting Mumia to get out so wanted zimmerman to get convicted and I find that hypocritical. Can't you be consistently pro-defendant?

[hopemountain]

30. omg. i cannot believe you

even find anything comparable between that piece of shit whose last name ends with a z.
how about leonard? are you going to compare him, too? good bye.

[bonzo925]

31. leonard who?

[heaven05]

38. he stalked

Trayvon Martin in a way that caused Trayvon to panic and most likely fear for his life, as he should have, it turned out. I read a lot of your type of zimmerman defense during the original incident. I still get sick at these defenses of a racist animal. I just can't understand racism since I know we all bleed red..........if no one kills zimmerman, he will probably live to be 90.

[hopemountain]

27. appalled and not surprised

that the freak thinks it is acceptable and his right.

[TrappedInUtah]

32. Times like this I really hope there is a hell

People like Zimmerman really do deserve to go there. The guy is simply a vile, ghoulish creature. Him getting away with the shooting was one thing, but trying to profit off it is simple evil.

[dflprincess]

33. My thought as well

but first I really wish he'd spend the next 60 years or so on earth really suffering.

[struggle4progress]

34. He's a little nobody whose only accomplishment is killing a kid

That got him some limelight, and he liked it, so he's looking for more

[StevieM]

35. Well said. And welcome to DU!! (eom)

[AgadorSparticus]

36. zimmerman is a shit. karma is coming for him and in a way, I feel sorry for him.

and karma doesn't care if he is ignorant or not. it's coming and it is commensurate to his actions.

[heaven05]

37. excellent

description(s) of a huge part of american history(extremely shameful) and how we haven't moved much past that history as exhibited by this pig zimmerman and his probable candidate for POTUS trump along with his legion of supporters. Americans are so easily fooled by demogoguery and easily led into the pits of hell by a murderer like pig zimmerman.

The writer of the article is right. Like an unknown cancer in the body, we eventually end up paying the price for ignoring the warning signs.

[blackspade]

39. Sickening.