@cicerone imposter,
BillRM is trying to find some way to blame a child homicide victim, who might well have been trying to defend his own life, as being responsible for his own death--and saying, therefore, that child deserved to die.
This is not unlike the way he tries to blame rape victims for their own rapes.
And, not only does he blame Martin for his own death, he blames his two loving, concerned, decent parents for their child's death, because they didn't teach him how to "behave properly". I suspect Martin's parents did teach him how to behave properly by telling him that, if he was confronted by someone, an adult stranger, who appeared to want to harm him, he should defend himself. And their child, who had been stalked in the dark, by a menacing stranger, who never identified himself, had every right to defend himself with a punch, certainly if this stranger had tried to detain him, or revealed he was armed. Trying to blame these people for their child's death, and for the actions of George Zimmerman, is not just illogical it's despicable.
BillRM furthermore tries to distract from Zimmerman's behaviors by irrelevantly bringing up black on black crime, the incarceration rate of young black men, and other recent crimes blacks have been involved in. For someone who claims race was not involved in the Zimmerman case, BillRM can't stop talking about race--generally to talk about how blacks are involved in crime, and to attribute all kinds of negative stereotypes to Zimmerman's victim, mainly because he was black. BillRM is letting us know this case is about race, in
his mind, and Trayvon Martin was just another one of those black ghetto hoodlums. In other words, BillRM is not only embracing the idea that Zimmerman racially profiled Martin that night, he is saying he was correct to do so. BillRM is a racist. That's really why he feels Trayvon Martin deserved to die--he views this black kid's life as worthless, so his death's no loss to anyone--BillRM has called Martin, "a walking piece of ****". Could he dehumanize this child any more than that? Could he voice more contempt than that?
All young black men seem alike to BillRM. He can't even acknowledge that Trayvon Martin was not a ghetto teen, he was a middle class kid, with two hard-working parents, who were able to provide him with a comfortable life style, and expectations of a promising future that included getting a college degree, just like his older brother. His loving and involved father was a strong presence in his life, as was one of his uncles, an ex-Marine. He had good role models, and good influences, and good opportunities. And he had never been in trouble in the community--no anti-social or criminal behaviors, no run-ins with the police, no arrests, etc.--and he never displayed aggressive or harmful behaviors toward others.
To try to characterize this teen as a "hoodlum" or "thug" or "want to be hoodlum" is so absurd it's downright ludicrous. Zimmerman made a mistake when he did that, and profiled him just based on Martin's race and dress, but BillRM is knowingly distorting and stereotyping this kid, and disregarding facts to do it--like the fact that Martin wasn't a trouble maker in his community, he wasn't really a trouble-maker in his school either. And he wasn't the one who began stalking someone in the dark that night.
Getting suspensions for things like playing hooky once, or writing "WTF" on a school locker, and even for having an empty baggie with a trace of pot, hardly mean that any kid is "a hoodlum"--these are the somewhat mildly rebellious behaviors that are within the norm for male adolescents. Trayvon was never "kicked out of school"--he received a few days suspension as a disciplinary action. He was not a management problem in school in terms of being disruptive, or defiant toward teachers, or aggressive toward other students. Once in a while he broke a rule--what adolescent doesn't?
As far as anyone knows, he never stole
anything, nor did he have a need to steal--his parents gave him money. The nonsense about his having some jewelry is just that--nonsense. No one ever determined the rather odd assortment of jewelry--mostly a collection of plain wedding bands-- was stolen from anyone, and it may well have been something a friend gave him to hold--Martin acknowledged it wasn't his. And whatever pictures were on his cell phone, or the private messages he sent to friends, are equally unrevealing in understanding what his actual behavior was like--since he was not engaging in anti-social or criminal activities in his community, he was just bantering with friends in a private conversation, and doing all of the boasting, and bragging, and lying, and exaggerating, and fantasizing, and macho talking, that many adolescent males engage in--and it's just
talk. In reality, in the real world, this kid neither looked like, nor acted like, "a hoodlum" or a "gangsta".
So, not only does BillRM try to assassinate this 16 year old's character, and distort his actual behaviors, he then laughably asserts that George Zimmerman was an "outstanding citizen" despite Zimmerman's track record of genuinely anti-social behaviors, which included the abuse and harm of others.
1. His former fiancée got a restraining order against him for domestic violence
2. He was arrested for assaulting a law enforcement office
3. He was fired from a part-time job as a party security person for being too aggressive.
4. His cousin has accused him of sexually molesting her for a period of 10 years, beginning when she was 6 years old.
5. His wife currently has fears in the back of her mind that he might become violent toward her.
6. He's an untrustworthy, deceitful, brazen liar who devised an elaborate scheme to conceal evidence so he could manipulate the decision of a judge in a court of law.
What's really puzzling is why BillRM feels compelled to, rather compulsively, repeatedly attack and smear this child's reputation and character, mainly through the use of negative stereotypes about black young men--stereotypes that really don't fit this particular young black male, or his decent, hard-working, responsible middle class parents.
In BillRM's racist mind there are apparently no young black males who aren't on a fast track to a life of crime and years behind bars. Even the ones who haven't been in trouble with the law, who plan on following an older brother to college, who think about becoming a pilot one day, who enjoy a totally normal range of teenage activities, and who aren't doing anything to harm or hurt anyone, are still suspect in his mind. If you're BillRM, you just can't trust any young black males.
The night he was killed, Trayvon Martin was the house guest of a woman who is a correction officer in a juvenile detention facility. If anyone should be able to spot a teenage "hoodlum" it's a person who works with that type day in and day out, and she very likely wouldn't want someone like that in her home, or near her own 14 year old son. But this woman did welcome Trayvon Martin into her home, several times, and she described him as being well behaved and respectful--because that's how he
really acted. She wasn't afraid to go out of her home and leave Trayvon alone with her own son or her property, she didn't think Trayvon Martin was drug-addled, or criminal, or a threat to anyone. And she actually knew him.
But, when your agenda is to promote racist attitudes, as BillRM appears to be doing, you're not going to let reality stand in your way of doing that. And, if any black person raises the issue of racial profiling, or racial inequity, and you're BillRM, you're going to call them a "race-baiter" even though you're the one spouting all the racist attitudes...
BillRM seems to live in some sort of alternate reality. And it's a rather hate-filled place he inhabits.
