The State of Florida vs George Zimmerman: The Trial

You apparently are not able to deal with truth.
The truth is that an impartial jury took a very hard look
at the government's "case" and found it wanting.

don't believe that blacks who defend themselves
will have anything to worry about. Sharpton will leave them alone.

Yea, he felt comfortable
beating the guy 's head against the street

I only hope if someone actually beats my head against concrete repeatedly I come off as lightly as Zimmerman.
Two small abrasions measuring no more than two centimeters long.

Now, this isn’t to say that the African-American community is naive about the fact that African-American young men are disproportionately involved in the criminal justice system, that they are disproportionately both victims and perpetrators of violence. It’s not to make excuses for that fact, although black folks do interpret the reasons for that in a historical context.

We understand that some of the violence that takes place in poor black neighborhoods around the country is born out of a very violent past in this country, and that the poverty and dysfunction that we see in those communities can be traced to a very difficult history.

And so the fact that sometimes that’s unacknowledged adds to the frustration. And the fact that a lot of African-American boys are painted with a broad brush and the excuse is given, well, there are these statistics out there that show that African-American boys are more violent -- using that as an excuse to then see sons treated differently causes pain.

I think the African-American community is also not naive in understanding that statistically somebody like Trayvon Martin was probably statistically more likely to be shot by a peer than he was by somebody else.

So -- so folks understand the challenges that exist for African- American boys, but they get frustrated, I think, if they feel that there’s no context for it or -- and that context is being denied. And -- and that all contributes, I think, to a sense that if a white male teen was involved in the same kind of scenario, that, from top to bottom, both the outcome and the aftermath might have been different.

True; and if people had really listened to Obama,
they would understand why more blacks commit crimes.

True; and if people had really listened to Obama, they would understand why more blacks commit crimes. They don't have equal opportunities in anything they do, and that environment is devastating to young folks who see that this world is not fair. T

"I wonder if a white has ever mugged a black ?"

and you wonder [??] why nobody takes you seriously except the fringe folk...

What would you do under the same circumstances?

I never do.

True; and if people had really listened to Obama, they would understand why more blacks commit crimes. They don't have equal opportunities in anything they do, and that environment is devastating to young folks who see that this world is not fair. Their parents may have jobs, but they're usually working in the service industry where the pay scale is low, and when they're out of jobs, what's left? This perpetuates itself from generation to generation, and people wonder why there's so much crime within the black communities.

What they see in their lives is the mistreatment not only from whites, but from the police. That's been their history.

What would you do under the same circumstances?