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Powergamz1 -> RE: Zimmerman III - Should the jury have a manslaughter option (7/10/2013 8:44:13 AM)
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Did you just claim that because of your inner racist, all people with brown skin are overt racists, but black people are not?
What an amazing load of nonsense.
You made the specific claim that Zimmerman was a racist. You were asked to back that up with evidence . The only evidence available in the real world, is that Martin called the man with brown skin the N word, and other racist epithets, while Zimmerman did not mention race at all until specifically asked by the dispatcher.
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ORIGINAL: Marc2b
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You're just making shit up. Zimmerman has black family members and good relationships with his black neighbors. In one case in particular, he went out of his way to help get justice for a black guy who was assaulted by a white cop.
My family is also multiracial. I have black relatives, not just by marriage but by blood. I love them dearly. Yet I confess that if I were walking down a street alone at night and I saw an unknown man coming toward me, I would be more nervous if he were black than if he were white. There is no real justification for this feeling... it is simply the result of having been raised in a racist society in which black people are often portrayed as naturally violent and criminal. It is a matter of intellectual will to overcome my inner racist and to keep walking and to nod and say hello as we pass by instead of crossing to the other side of the street... or calling the police and reporting a suspicious individual in the neighborhood.
While official racism has been banned in America, one needs only peruse the media and the internet to see that the inner racism I am talking a bout is still rampant and still affects the lives of minorities daily. I don't know George Zimmerman, I've never met him and can't read his mind... but based upon what I know about people, I suspect that if Trayvon was white, he would still be alive today.
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As for setting "events in motion," when Zimmerman made clear his intent by asking Martin what he was doing there, Martin could have replied along the lines of, "I live here. What's your excuse?" instead of going gangsta on him.
Trayvon didn't owe him an explanation for anything. As a young black man he had probably been subject to such bullshit, insulting, inquiries for much of his life. So it wouldn't be surprising that he wouldn't be feeling polite toward some asshole who thinks he has a right to interrogate him. Google "Microaggressions."
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That was what set the "events in motion" that lead to Martin's death. Otherwise, you might as well blame Zimmerman's mother for ever getting pregnant with George in the first place, and nail the source of the problem on Adam and Eve.
Why stop at Adam and Eve? Why not go all the way back and blame the Big Bang? It is because wild extrapolation is not an argument. On the night in question Zimmerman saw a young black man and he had a choice. He could have ignored his inner racist and given Trayvon the benefit of the doubt (because a man walking down the street should not be considered suspicious, whatever his skin color) but Zimmerman chose otherwise, and thereby set into motion the events that ended a young man's life.
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