Why is everything about race?

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Originally Posted by rabernet

Why aren't they speaking out about and holding rallies in Chicago where on any given weekend, dozens of young black youth are murdered within their own communities?

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Ahhh...Chicago...where it's newsworthy when ONLY 5 people are shot and killed over a weekend. I wonder if Sharpton and Jackson are going to speak out about this http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2012/0...ght-on-camera/

Somehow I doubt it...

Everybody should watch the movie Thrive

I don't think anyone besides George Zimmerman and Trayvon know the full details of what really happened, and one of them can't talk so I doubt we will ever know the unfiltered truth. It's too difficult to say, maybe Trayvon attacked Zimmerman because he saw an angry man pointing a gun at him, what was Trayvon to think? But at the same time I don't think it's fair that the mainstream media was using a picture of trayvon from the 7th grade to represent him. The media was purposely trying to throw gasoline on the fire.. and then today we hear how a producer at NBC edited the 911 call to make it sound like Zimmerman was racial profiling, the 911 operator asked what race Trayvon was, but they edited out the question and made it seem like Zimmerman was after a black man because he was black.

The media, being the mouthpiece of our corporate controlled government tries very hard to create racial tension, divide and conquer the public.. a content and peaceful society is able to turn its full united attention towards a horribly corrupt corporatist government and military industrial complex to see it for what it really is.. but the corporations that control our senators and representatives in congress cannot allow that, so they use the corporate media to keep us squabbling amongst ourselves.

I mean if people stopped seeing all these things that divide us as americans then they would start to notice things like this: http://revolutionaryfrontlines.files...corp-unity.jpg

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Originally Posted by Rob

It's 2012 can we not get over all this!?

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If people got over it, they would have to find something else to focus on and complain about. They might actually have to pay attention to all of the unpleasant truths in the world around them. So, I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you...people love their distractions. Frankly, that's all these types of things are--just distractions. They can pretend this stuff is important, because it takes so little effort on their part...

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Originally Posted by RobNJ

So you'd rather make it a sex thing rather than a race thing??? :gj:

Come on man...

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OP never said anything sexist about it. There are differences between male/female reactions to anger whether you are sexist or not. Men tend to get more physical, females tend to use verbal assault. However, as of recently this trend for females is flipping, and more and more females are resorting to beating the crap out of each other. There have been books written about the startling change, none of which are sexist. It's one thing to notice differences between sexes and races, it's another thing to judge based on those differences. No judgement was passed from the OP about the fight itself, and that is NOT sexism. Think about it for a second before you post. :P

what happened that night is sad and in no way a racially motivated incident
we as a country seem to believe everything we hear. even when the events of that evening are vague at best.
the facts we do know are when jesse jackson and al sharpton, and the new black panther party get involved we will all be floating in crap as they put there personal spins on everything.

why are they not more concerned with black on black murders. or gangs, or even the drug dealer peddling drugs to elementary school kids. seems more a problem to me than a random act in which the victim was black and the shooter was hispanic, but looks white.

i dont support violence but i do support the justice system
this man is not convicted and has not even stood trial but half the country has convicted him..
a bounty on his head really people.

where is the outrage with spike lee tweeting the address of a george zimmerman.

where is the cry for justice

we are americans black brown yellow white red or blue.

Why is everything about race? Because it is the narrative that certain outlets want to push. Take CNN and NBC - altering the 911 call so that is sounded like the shooter was concerned about race and not the 911 operator. Even CNN pushing this story 2 and 3 times a day. CNN pushes a story with a nasty racial agenda just about once a week. Then again - a (white) man is beaten, strippped and robbed by 11 blacks while dozens more watch and laugh - no one even calls 911 - and its a tiny story on the back page.

The coverage of these things is driving a racial wedge into our society. If Zimmerman is not found guilty or not charged just wait and see how bad it gets...

It's not all about race, a comment I heard the other day, "Your just being racist because I'm a girl". :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by LGray23

Here are our police general orders. The dudes in blue I work with are highly trained, armed, and prepared to deal with such circumstances, not a fat community watch handcranker. :rolleyes: I know adrenaline is a funny thing, I deal with it all the time, and half the time people don't listen anyways, but after the countless legal classes I've taken for my job, we say these things for a reason. If half the people I talked to on a regular basis just breathed, and listened, it would make their lives much easier.

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Remember - when seconds count, the police are only minutes away.... ;)

Zimmermann is now in police custody and is being charged with second degree murder

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