Justice for Trayvon??

[4est_4est_Gump]

While several channels were providing real-time coverage of the George Zimmerman trial in Florida, a Howard University student was murdered in Washington, D.C. The story of Omar Sykes didn’t make it to television news except in Washington, D.C. The story of his murder was noted only in the Washington Post’s Metro section, provoking this question: If a white student at any college in Washington, D.C. had been murdered on the street on the night of July 4, would it have been only a local story?
Doubtful. A liberal columnist, noting this disparity, would very likely attribute it to vestigial racism. I think it’s probably something else. There is a daily death toll of young African-Americans in America’s cities. In Chicago alone, more than 200 people (mostly black) have been killed in just the past six months. These deaths are not treated as major news events, I suspect, because the press is squeamish about drawing attention to the fact that the overwhelming majority of the perpetrators of this violence are black. If these victims had been killed by white people, it’s a certainty that they would have been a major national obsession. (Recall the frenzy during the ’90s when it seemed that white arsonists were firebombing black churches. They weren’t, but that’s another story.)

Young black males account for 1 percent of the population, yet they comprise 16 percent of murder victims. They also represent 27 percent of homicide offenders.

Omar Sykes’s murder deserved more attention, more outrage, than it received. I don’t think he and I would agree on much. The Post account suggested that he had a strong interest in “social justice.” I tend to agree with Friedrich von Hayek, who said that putting the word “social” before anything else wholly destroys the meaning of the word it modifies. But never mind. Sykes was described by one friend as someone who “always had a hug and a smile, every single time he saw me.” Another said, “He was probably the most well-liked guy in my life. . . . The world just lost someone pretty amazing.” He was a business-marketing major and would have started his senior year in the fall. He was also someone’s child, brother, and grandson.

The world did lose someone amazing. Honesty requires us to admit that the relative indifference to the violence among black inner-city residents arises at least in part from the perception that most of the young blacks who die in the gunfire are criminals themselves. Most are. But so what? They don’t deserve a death sentence because they snatched a purse or two. Some are children. (Between 1980 and 2008, 41 percent of infant homicide victims were black.) Some are elderly. Some, like Sykes, are college students. For every victim, there are thousands who live in fear in neighborhoods blighted by crime. The crime rate makes poverty more intractable as businesses are reluctant to locate in such neighborhoods, insurance is more expensive, and civil-society institutions like churches and clubs must divert time, energy, and expense for security.

The murder rate has declined over the course of the past 20 years. But it remains a scandal that African-Americans continue to live disproportionately under the shadow of violent death. There are many reasons for the slaughter — with family disintegration topping the list. But misplaced delicacy about discussing the toll — for fear of “blaming the victim” — may be helping to perpetuate the wrong.

Mona Charen, NRO
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/352914/racial-morality-play-mona-charen


When was the last time the President talked about his plan to reduce the violence of those who look just like his son?

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

Well, let's face it. Only the governor of FL would look into an incident that happened in FL. Do you think Moonbeam Brown should get actively involved?

Not remotely the point.

Even one of the biggest conservatives in the country thought this case was fishy.

 

[Busybody]

Long way to say what I said

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Long way to say what I said

muslims killing muslims


yeah for me?

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Not remotely the point.

Even one of the biggest conservatives in the country thought this case was fishy.

Rich Scott is an effing RINO. His numbers are shit, and he's trying to appease every librul special interest group to save his job in 2014.

 

[jomar]

No shit MORON.

You are quick to insult when you are wrong.

 

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[Busybody]

Rich Scott is an effing RINO. His numbers are shit, and he's trying to appease every librul special interest group to save his job in 2014.

yes

 

[Busybody]

What's on trial is Martin's right to case a gated neighborhood of his choice in the middle of the night, while under the influence of marijuana, and assault anyone bent on thwarting his suspicious activities.

we had a similar case in Baltimore

3 JEWISH NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH GUYS.....2 former IDF members and all 3 medical school attendees.....stopped a buncha BLACK KIDS.......when one of the "kids" attacked the WATCHERS who kicked the shit outa the black kid

of course it was the JEWS fault......even the JEWS said so, to appease the coloreds.....FUCK THE APPEASORS as well

 

[IrezumiKiss]

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[doctor_insanus]

Funny how Rick Scott became a RINO as soon as his numbers started to tank. He swept into office as a Teabagger's wet dream, and then proved exactly how incompetent the entire movement really is.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Funny how Rick Scott became a RINO as soon as his numbers started to tank. He swept into office as a Teabagger's wet dream, and then proved exactly how incompetent the entire movement really is.

Scott is a hooker, like all of them. He'd dress like a Catholic school girl if it made him a dime.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

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...ppah!

 

[RobDownSouth]

You are quick to insult when you are wrong.

He's quick to insult, period.
His entire Lit career seems to be a constant attempt to curry favor with his man-crush, the Vettebigot.

 

[koalabear]

He's quick to insult, period.
His entire Lit career seems to be a constant attempt to curry favor with his man-crush, the Vettebigot.

Wrong fatty, it's to change your eating habits so you can lose weight for the surgery you are too fat for.

 

[Wrong Element]

So it appears the answer to my request for some proof that Obama ever called George Zimmerman a "honky" or demanded he be imprisoned is an admission that he never did any such thing. All I needed to know, thanks!

 

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[pete]

The point is, Obama and Holder want Zimmerman in jail, regardless if he was justified and acted legally, and they're willing to skirt the double jeopardy clause by bringing a federal civil rights complaint to accomplish the same.

IS a civil suit being pursued? i hadn't heard about it

 

[RobDownSouth]

He's not really a victim yet, but may become one when the jury renders a verdict.

That's a very serious charge. Can you prove he was "hunting Negroes for a year? Personally, I think he was just doing his job as a neighborhood watch member, just as cops do their jobs when they patrol and spot and trail a person they consider to be suspicious.

46 calls to police to report suspicious black folks
0 calls to police to report suspicious white folks
The record speaks for itself.

BTW, in looking up exactly how many calls Zimmy the Groid Hunter made to police, I found out he lived exactly 4 miles away from a home I used to own in Florida.

 

[koalabear]

IS a civil suit being pursued? i hadn't heard about it

http://www.lawreport.org/ViewStory.aspx?StoryID=11002

 

[pete]

46 calls to police to report suspicious black folks
0 calls to police to report suspicious white folks
The record speaks for itself.

you oughta know that this, in itself, isn't conclusive in any way.

 

[CHNOPS]

IS a civil suit being pursued? i hadn't heard about it

Do you really need to ask?

 

[pete]

Do you really need to ask?

i do, because i haven't followed this case very much at all. media-centric cases usually are as big a turn-off as seeing margaret thatcher naked.

 

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