I am so disgusted and saddened. Paranoia, prejudice, pursuit of an imaginary ‘suspect’ in one’s own mind, and play-pretending one is a cop in a real world setting when in fact not a cop…is not self-defense. A young person of color in a hoodie going out for a bag of skittles does not give any one any such license to ‘stand’ any such ground.
Prayers for Trayvon Martin’s family.
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Hey JJ, Kat, or Ann…could one of you tweet this? Thanks!
I’m on my iPhone, can’t get into the twitter on here.
So depressed. Going to go to bed and have more nightmares of the topsy turvy dystopia we live in.
Mona,
Our posts tweet automatically now, but I put it on my twitter feed.
Oh, thanks for the tweet BB. I’ve still been tweeting them cause I like adding my own tags, but that’s cool 🙂
Me too Mona…
I do that too.
I’m just wondering what we’re supposed to tell children now, if you’re being stalked by a grown man who outweighs you by a 100 pounds and possibly has a lethal weapon, do whatever he says and treat him as someone with power over your life because he’s perfectly entitled to shoot you to death?
Exactly.
Trayvon Martin was the one practicing self-defense. How is this so hard for people to grok
The difference being of course, that if Trayvon had been the one who killed his stalker, he would have been immediately jailed, denied bail, convicted for sure, probably somehow, some way, of first degree murder, and probably facing the death penalty.
Why didn’t they hammer that home……………Zimmerman was in pursuit, he was standing his own.
I listened to Candy this morning, she seems to echo “it’s not about racism” like she just humming along with Zimmerman’s lawyers, like it was a fuck accident or something.
Shit, he was NOT standing his own, he was I pursuit.
I guess you’re supposed to pretend its the 1950s in the South and Say “Sorry Mass’r Zimmerman”
Just get in his car and hope for the best. Maybe you’ll just end up in a human trafficking ring instead of dead. Not every adult who stalks children is up to no good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4
Unfortunately Trayvon Marton would probably still have been shot…
I am totally disgusted too…I can’t put it into words at all.
Did you all see what Trayvon’s parents had to say about all this?
Trayvon Martin’s Parents React To George Zimmerman Verdict | Mediaite
Oh. Heartbreakingly beautiful. Such strength and elegance in the whirlwind of crazy.
I’m surprised at the reaction, here.
After watching the trial and listening to all of the evidence, I’d say that the jury came to the correct conclusion.
A very sad event but no evidience of murder or intent of murder.
I had hoped for manslaughter…but no surprise to me either Sue. I felt that he would get away with it from the beginning.
I do feel that he did do all the required actions to justify manslaughter however…I stand by that completely. How they came up without charging him with that I don’t know.
I agree, he should have been found guilty of manslaughter, though I do think his pursuing Trayvon actually makes Zimmerman more guilty than manslaughter. He took law into his own hands. The dispatcher told him not to go after Martin but Zimmerman wouldn’t listen.
The saddest part about the evidence in this case, is that half of the story was never told, Trayvon took the truth to his grave. In the end the real TRUTH is that George Zimmerman, a grown man, followed a 17 yr old boy for no other reason than he fit a sick stereotype that lived/lives in Zimmerman’s mind. When a 204 pound man straps on a fully load handgun, with a round in the chamber for a, JUST IN CASE scenario, to go to Target, the chances of something bad happening increase dramatically. Had the shoe been on the other foot, Trayvon Martin would be in prison. The RF’ers are celebrating today.
Joe My God notes that Teabagistan is in full blown celebration mode over the verdict. Whp’s surprised?
When eyes fill not but tears, choke speech silent for nought words to breathe;
For breath not breathed anticipate the unjust pate authority
Then to when to wait what mercy calls impartiality
Where wander may we ever where respirate sufferance enwreathe?
Heroic hate hath letter of law, and there law’s lost
There law’s lost; sweet jurisprudence shackled; tongue-tied oblique
With sidelong arms art impurely cold, reach touch-tinged in rancor’s frost.
“Tis nowhere near, nay nought here that innocence doth speak.
Except that Martin was an unarmed tall lanky kid at 158–unless a bag of skittles and Arizona iced tea can now be considered weapons– and Zimmerman at the time was an armed stocky adult 185. Moreover, Seriously’s point still remains that what do we tell children now who are being stalked by Mr. stranger danger. Just do as the creep says and pray he doesn’t shoot you? Who’s the freaking robber/mugger now?
Oops, typed stodgy first-meant stocky. Corrected it now.
Hmm. I don’t know where the comment that I was replying to went. This is nesting in the wrong place.
Exactly. Remember when it was falsely repeated ad nauseum that the media was showing pre-school pics of Trayvon because obviously if we could see recent pics of a scary, scary big Black teen we’d all understand completely why George could not resist hunting him down and murdering him? Of course it was all a lie and the picture was only a few months old.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/martin.asp