http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/eugene-robinson-black-boys-denied-the-right-to-be-young/2013/07/15/d3f603d8-ed69-11e2-9008-61e94a7ea20d_story.html?tid=pm_pop
Justice failed Trayvon Martin the night he was killed. We should be appalled and outraged, but perhaps not surprised, that it failed him again Saturday night, with a verdict setting his killer free.Our society considers young black men to be dangerous, interchangeable, expendable, guilty until proven innocent. This is the conversation about race that we desperately need to have — but probably, as in the past, will try our best to avoid.
i was one that thought American justice as it is touted would prevail from his first conversation with 911 i said "they got at least the manslaughter", instead we got southern laws that don't recognize the rights of Black citizens or the citizens themselves let alone their rights.
for over 4 years we watched them try and dismantle the progressives with all kinds of things that should not exist in a land called democray or The United SDtates of America, at least 51% are not united with those who only recognize their rights as their politicians deceive them to be.
George Zimmerman’s acquittal was set in motion on Feb. 26, 2012, before Martin’s body was cold. When Sanford, Fla., police arrived on the scene, they encountered a grown man who acknowledged killing an unarmed 17-year-old boy. They did not arrest the man or test him for drug or alcohol use. They conducted a less-than-energetic search for forensic evidence. They hardly bothered to look for witnesses.Only a national outcry forced authorities to investigate the killing seriously. Even after six weeks, evidence was found to justify arresting Zimmerman, charging him with second-degree murder and putting him on trial. But the chance of dispassionately and definitively establishing what happened that night was probably lost. The only complete narrative of what transpired was Zimmerman’s.
if you killed because you could but could get off if you say you were afraid, would you go to court and say "yeah he kicked my butt after a stalked him for no reason other then a hoodie i saw in the dark in the rain, ignored authorities telling me to stand down, when i had ground to stand on that was mine, and when i can get my gun out he backs off like anyone with a half oz. of sense would screaming for help but i was bloodied so i killed him"?
nah you would stick to the self defense because that ground you stood on changed multiple times as you pursued in your own words "he's running", you don't have the right to pursue and engage and say you were standing your ground, except in Sandford maybe all of Fla.
given the progression of this thing would a reasonable person not conclude Trayvon had ground he was standing on too?
i guess dead Black kids have no voice in southern courts
