Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Freigned outrage

Hillary Clinton had heart ache over the weekend regarding the not guilty verdict of George Zimmerman.  The kid is dead regardless of the outcome, which begs the question: What difference does it make?

What exactly is the source of the outrage over the verdict of "not guilty" in the trial of George Zimmerman?
Did he get off because he had money? Did he get off because he was a celebrity? Did he get off because he was "white" while the other party was black? Was there a cover-up? Was it Bush's fault?
If G.Z. had money, it's due to the media bring attention to his case and gaining sympathy from those that may see this as a "gun rights" thing. If he is famous, it's due to the media. If he's "white," it's, again, because of the media defining him as such, for on paper and upbringing he's as white as President Obama.The media doesn't call Mr. Obama a "White-African-American," yet they referred to George Zimmerman as a "white Hispanic."

Okay, George Zimmerman had a gun and the teenager who went to buy Skittles died from a bullet from said gun. Lacking details of the circumstances leading to the death of the teenager, makes the fellow with a gun a monster for killing a child. Why did he have the gun in the first place? To hunt teenagers? To hunt black teenagers?
If there were a number of incidents in my neighborhood that made me worry for the safety of my family I'd be suspicious of people in my neighborhood that I didn't recognize. In a time when people rarely walk from point A to point B, you tend to recognize the people in your neighborhood when they are walking alone without any sense of direction or purpose.
When I was younger and staying at my folks' during the summer, I'd go for walks at night. Rather than wasting money on gas, I'd step out for air. Twice I got stopped by police within a few blocks of  the house and asked to show I.D. I recall another time during Thanksgiving break walking to Kroger and being stopped by a guy in a Cadillac wanting to know where the "action was." I think that was the last time I walked after midnight in my small hometown for the guy was a perv.
I doubt I wore a hoodie any of those times, but I was wearing a hoodie when I was jumped in the parking lot at the local Menard's by a couple of employees that grabbed me and went through my pockets because they said I looked like someone who stole copper pipe fittings. I had my hood down, but was wearing a hat because it was cold and windy. I was totally caught by surprise and thought I was being robbed.
It's frustrating to be accused of something you haven't conceived of doing. I haven't stepped foot in Menard's since, and my opinion of them is worse than that I have for Samsung.
Thinking about Menard's makes me very angry. I remember going to the police and being told they couldn't do anything since Menard's evidently has the right to assault and detain people on their property if they have reasonable cause.
If you saw the Seven Eleven footage of the exchange made regarding the Skittles and canned beverage, you'd notice that Trayvon Martin's hoodie covered him well and that he looks bigger than 5'11" and 158lbs. He looks a good 4-6 inches taller than the clerk and seems confused as to whether he's coming or going.
A side point, Mr. Obama famously said if he "had a son, he'd look like Trayvon." Sasha and Malia have Secret Service agents protecting them, maybe Trayvon needed one as well? Also, you would hope that Tracy Martin would have been aware of a gun nut watching over the community where he chose to bring his son to stay.
It is said that Trayvon died 70 yards from the home where he was staying. That's maybe a block, yet no one there heard a gun shot or the arrival of a various police vehicles so they found out after filing a missing persons report the next day. Sad.

The evidence seemed to support that Martin was the aggressor and that Zimmerman was afraid for his life, thus the jury had reasonable doubt and found Zimmerman not guilty.

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