A big, big part of the problem with this whole situation is that the mainstream media here in the US is heavily, overwhelmingly, dominated by one point-of-view...and is permanently mentally stuck in a time warp where every confrontation or disagreement between blacks and whites is the Bridge at Selma. To them, blacks are wronged innocents, and if a black is in the wrong, you refer back to the previous rule and do all you can to suppress the inconvenient truth.
They were careful to run, at first, only a picture of Martin that had been taken several years before his death, and made him look angelic, while the picture of Zimmerman they used did not, to say the least, show him at his best. Unfortunately for their preferred narrative, the more facts came out, the less Zimmerman looked like the second coming of Bull Connor, and the more of a hoodlum Martin turned out to be.
This apple-cheeked lad had been in that neighborhood in the first place because he'd become a discipline problem at his school---as in caught with burglary tools and women's jewelry for which he had no explanation. Unfortunately (for Martin) the school was under heavy pressure to bring down the numbers of its black male students who were leaving the place in handcuffs, so he was merely sent to live with his father.
Also, Martin's social-media entries came to light, and were soon to be seen all over the internet, and the more of them that appeared, the more of a gangsta-wannabe (at the very, very least) he looked like.
Zimmerman almost certainly wouldn't have been charged but for fear of riots, thanks to the professional demagogues who are seen as "leaders of the black community." Even if I thought he was as dirty as hell and deserved to fry, I'd rejoice at his acquittal, merely because I detest the sight of juries and courts being swayed by threats of mob violence.
And, ironically enough, Zimmerman himself was, at least before all this hoo-rah, almost a caricature of an Obama voter. He'd held the local cops' feet to the fire some years previous over their treatment of a homeless black man, he'd helped tutor black students, he was a good liberal...until Obama had to throw him under the bus to please the race rabble-rousers.
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Date: 2013-07-19 12:45 am (UTC)They were careful to run, at first, only a picture of Martin that had been taken several years before his death, and made him look angelic, while the picture of Zimmerman they used did not, to say the least, show him at his best. Unfortunately for their preferred narrative, the more facts came out, the less Zimmerman looked like the second coming of Bull Connor, and the more of a hoodlum Martin turned out to be.
This apple-cheeked lad had been in that neighborhood in the first place because he'd become a discipline problem at his school---as in caught with burglary tools and women's jewelry for which he had no explanation. Unfortunately (for Martin) the school was under heavy pressure to bring down the numbers of its black male students who were leaving the place in handcuffs, so he was merely sent to live with his father.
Also, Martin's social-media entries came to light, and were soon to be seen all over the internet, and the more of them that appeared, the more of a gangsta-wannabe (at the very, very least) he looked like.
Zimmerman almost certainly wouldn't have been charged but for fear of riots, thanks to the professional demagogues who are seen as "leaders of the black community." Even if I thought he was as dirty as hell and deserved to fry, I'd rejoice at his acquittal, merely because I detest the sight of juries and courts being swayed by threats of mob violence.
And, ironically enough, Zimmerman himself was, at least before all this hoo-rah, almost a caricature of an Obama voter. He'd held the local cops' feet to the fire some years previous over their treatment of a homeless black man, he'd helped tutor black students, he was a good liberal...until Obama had to throw him under the bus to please the race rabble-rousers.