Will Robinson wrote:
I was talking about how people wanted to ignore the law and convict Zimmerman in spite of the law and evidence and I was scolded by self righteous leftwing kneejerks that their desire was to be accepted because we white people don't understand their anger due to our 'white privilege'.
So I asked just how much of an exemption and to what laws, are we supposed to build in to the system because they are underprivileged compared to whites.
I have pointed to a despicable effort to to stir up black peoples emotions to the breaking point by so called leaders of the community based on fabricated offenses. It is that effort to gin up outrage that gives birth to such ill-logical desires and harms race relations.
I never said 'remove that source of horrible agita and "all our problems would magically go away'! It sure will help though!
Why do you insist on misrepresenting my position instead of dealing with what I actually said?
Is it because you found the truth was in the way of sustaining the left wing narrative so you simply revise it until your story sounds reasonable. What does that say about your audience?
Just like NBC and ABC found Zimmerman to be too Hispanic and his actual words on the 911 call too racially neutral and his head too bloody so they edited him to be 'white' and 'racist' and to look like he 'had no injuries'?
Or is my noticing things like that some how wrong due to my 'white privilege? Or is it OK to notice things like that but I should let it go because I'm a privileged white man?
How will letting those kind of tactics go unchallenged move us toward equality?!?
Maybe instead of creating a false narrative for blacks you should share some of that privilege that lets us see such phony tactics for what they are!
Tell them they are being played and letting it happen just to empower the race-pimps diminishes the real struggle! That is a great privilege to share with them. The privilege of the truth! Instead of withholding the truth and feeding them lies to manipulate their outrage so you can send them into battle for the likes of frikken Sharpton, et al!!
And yet, you keep defending Zimmerman like he's the most innocent non-racist saint out there who was just defending himself against an aggressor. You're making a whole bunch of blanket black and white assumptions about Zimmerman's innocence from a viewpoint that
whites-are-usually-not-wrong when it comes to dealing with any black people. I'm postulating Zimmerman is probably a racist because that's still prevalent in our society, not very innocent in this mess, and went after Martin because of his preconceptions about all black teenager being criminals. Here's a sampling of what he actually said on the 911 tapes.
Right out of the gate talking to the dispatcher, Zimmerman says this:
"This guy looks like he’s up to no good or he’s on drugs or something. It’s raining and he’s just walking around looking about."
Doesn't sound suspicious to me, unless one assumes all black teenagers are up to no good in the first place.
When asked the about the race of the individual, Zimmerman says:
"He looks black."
So Zimmerman knows that Martin is black. Then Martin sees that Zimmerman is following him and is probably is getting suspicious as to the "why" at this point. Zimmerman then tells the dispatcher:
"Now he’s staring at me."
Then Martin decides to turn and maybe confront the guy following him. Zimmerman
again states that Martin is a black male, like that fact alone means a threat.
"Yeah, now he’s coming toward me. He’s got his hands in his waist band.
And he’s a black male."
Yet Martin still hasn't attacked and Zimmerman still hasn't identified himself to Martin.
"Something’s wrong with him. Yep, he’s coming to check me out.
He’s got something in his hands. I don’t know what his deal is."
At one point, Zimmerman says:
"These assholes. They always get away."
So why was he calling Martin an ★■◆●? He hadn't DONE anything yet, or even confronted Zimmerman at this point, other than walk around being a black teenager holding candy. Zimmerman has already decided Martin is a bad, black teenager, who may have a weapon and who's up to no good.
Later on, Zimmerman says that Martin is now running away from him. Wouldn't you at this point?
"He's running."
Then Zimmerman admits to the dispatcher that he's following Martin at a run also, at which point the dispatcher says:
"We don’t need you to do that."
Right there, Zimmerman could have kept his distance, stopped a confrontation and saved a life, but he forged ahead, because he had the gun with which to defend himself if he needed.
And then, this part is conjecture because Zimmerman says this under his breath and it's not very audible:
"F**king coons."
Now I can't prove he actually said that slur. It's too inaudible. But even if he didn't say that, Zimmerman is a racist just from he earlier comments. AND you're totally ignoring the point of view of things from Martin's side. You keep on looking at things from your white, superior viewpoint. It was dark, it was raining, some suspicious white looking guy was following Martin. How would you react in that situation? You're a male, think long and hard about it. You don't seem to see that blacks can have a fear of whites when the situation is in reverse. Make no mistake, Zimmerman chased Martin against the advice of the police and he did not identify himself as security, LIKE THE POLICE WOULD HAVE. He is NOT totally inculpable in the death of Martin and he is not free of the racist charge in my book and his actions stuck another blow to the still unsteady race relations in the U.S. This isn't something to do with lefty ideals, it's more of a making peace ideal.
