Safe_Bet
No she's not back I'm Amy
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A young person is dead. *Brutally murdered in the spring of their youth.
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The perpetrator*who had a history of violence and hate, is caught tried and found not guilty (for a large part, not because he didn't do it, but because the procecution didn't do their job).
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Sound familiar?
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The problem is, the young person wasn't Trayvon Martin, but was one of the more than 30 gay and lesbian people who were murdered last year.
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"More murders motivated by anti-gay bias occurred last year than any year since the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs began collecting data in 1998, the national advocacy organization reported this week."
LINK
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Don't get me wrong: It's not that my heart doesn't go out to that young, black person's family. It's also not that I think justice was within 6 blocks of that courtroom...
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MY point is that there are DOZENS of posts on HuffPo, etc. expressing outrage, disgust, angst and fury over what happened to one young man.
Nary a damn one for the over 30 gays and lesbians who died in documented anti-gay hate motivated murders.
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Excuse me if I think their "show of outrage and sorrow" is bullshit, miss directed or, at least, makes me wonder where their heads are at.
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The perpetrator*who had a history of violence and hate, is caught tried and found not guilty (for a large part, not because he didn't do it, but because the procecution didn't do their job).
*
Sound familiar?
*
The problem is, the young person wasn't Trayvon Martin, but was one of the more than 30 gay and lesbian people who were murdered last year.
*
"More murders motivated by anti-gay bias occurred last year than any year since the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs began collecting data in 1998, the national advocacy organization reported this week."
LINK
*
Don't get me wrong: It's not that my heart doesn't go out to that young, black person's family. It's also not that I think justice was within 6 blocks of that courtroom...
*
MY point is that there are DOZENS of posts on HuffPo, etc. expressing outrage, disgust, angst and fury over what happened to one young man.
Nary a damn one for the over 30 gays and lesbians who died in documented anti-gay hate motivated murders.
*
Excuse me if I think their "show of outrage and sorrow" is bullshit, miss directed or, at least, makes me wonder where their heads are at.