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In reply to the discussion: Here's my problem. Can someone explain why Martin would attack Z if Z was doing nothing wrong? [View all]hfojvt
(37,573 posts)Again, I will ask, and hopefully type it right this time.
How much attention would those two crimes have gotten if the races had been reversed. If a gang of white kids beat the crap out of a black kid - in two separate incidents, I think there would be lots of attention paid to it. They would be waved around to show how racist this damned country is.
The death of Trayvon Martin is a big deal because we have a racist that we can lynch. The deaths of Ranisha Jones and Jalisa Reid, young black girls who were killed and who were not beating anybody up when they were shot, is a non-event. Nobody mourns them. Nobody demands justice for them. Nobody even knows their names. Even Al Sharpton does not care.
Yeah, the whole point of the Trayvon story isn't about justice, it is about a chance for some people to stir up HATE towards "racist scum".
"Wabasha, Wacouta, myself and others still talked for peace, but nobody would listen to us, and soon the cry was "Kill the whites and kill all these cut-hairs who will not join us." "
Anybody not spreading or applauding the hate, needs to be hated too.