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K Gardner

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Thu Mar 29, 2012, 12:46 PM Mar 2012

Ann Coulter Spews Hate and Gins up the Base Against Trayvon [View all]

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=50511

Apart from that, pretty much all that is known with certainty is that Zimmerman called the police to report a suspicious character in his neighborhood, and shortly thereafter he shot and killed Martin.

On the basis of little else, the media conjured a Hollywood script: A "white" man was "stalking" a little black kid -- who could be Obama's son! -- confronted him, beat him senseless as the small black child screamed for help, and finally shot the kid dead, "just because he was black."

Two weeks of nonstop hysteria later, it turns out that every part of that gripping plot is based on nothing that could be called a reasonable assumption, much less a fact.


Now, I would never read anything this hate-monger writes, had it not been for a posting I found on my FB page this morning which left me absolutely dumbfounded. The poster had read Coulter's rant and posted the following:

I am over Tyrone in Florida. All this is to much. Where were all these people when 2 innocent white kid got tortured and killed in Knoxville and now the parents have to sit thru another trial. TYRONE FAMILY GET OVER IT. WHAT WAS HE DOING IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD ANYWAY....


Needless to say, the ranting poster got Trayvon's name wrong; and after that, told the parents to "get over it" and wondered what "he was doing in that neighborhood anyway".

This is the kind of hate and ignorance we are dealing with. This is the racial divide that is getting worse by the day. This is what the right wing is counting on. I don't think I am alone in my fear for this country. The racism is bubbling to the surface and is only going to get worse as Election Time draws near. Because their worst fear is four more years of a black President.

They're not even bothering to hide it anymore.
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