@hawkeye10,
Quote:so when George said when asked what he would like to say to the Martin parents he said that he was sorry that the killing happened, that he cant imagine how horrible it is to lose a child, and that he prays for them daily he was not showing compassion?
This is what Zimmerman said in court, to Martin's parents..
Where is the genuine compassion in that? He immediately started making excuses for himself.
Then, when he did an interview with Sean Hannity, he said he was sorry "that they buried their child" and that he prays for them. But the reason these parents buried their child was because he killed that child. And the hollowness of his alleged sympathy for these grieving parents, and his lack of responsibility for his own behavior, became apparent when he told Hannity he wouldn't change anything he did that night.
Quote:"Is there anything that you regret? Do you regret getting out of the car to follow Trayvon that night?" Hannity asked. "Do you regret that you had a gun that night?"
"No, sir," Zimmerman, 28, replied. "I feel that it was all God's plan and not for me to second-guess it or judge it."
Is it any wonder that this was the reaction of the Martin family?
Quote:About 45 minutes after the televised interview, Martin's family released a statement condemning Zimmerman's comments.
"George Zimmerman said that he does not regret getting out of his vehicle, he does not regret following Trayvon, in fact he does not regret anything he did that night," the statement read. "He wouldn't do anything different and he concluded it was God's plan.
"We must worship a different God because there is no way that my God would have wanted George Zimmerman to kill my teenage son," Tracy Martin, Martin's father, said in the statement.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/18/zimmerman-apology-trayvon_n_1684878.html
Quote:oh wait, "true compassion" as in good enough for you...well we know that there is no way George could ever do anything good enough for you....dont we, because you lack any compassion for him.
I can 't feel compassion for him because I feel his reckless actions caused the needless loss of a life, and he takes no responsibility for those reckless actions. Zimmerman wasn't the victim in this situation--he was the instigator, he was the predator, he was the provocateur, and it was his ill-considered behaviors, in complete disregard of the rules of a Neighborhood Watch, that led to a tragic and needless and totally avoidable death. The victim was the one who wound up dead as a result of those reckless behaviors by Zimmerman.
The entire Zimmerman family seems on the same wave length--without any real compassion--it's all about themselves as "victims". And they continue to be the ones fanning racial flames and race-baiting.
Quote:Zimmerman’s Brother: No Remorse But He’d Give Trayvon Martin’s Family A Hug If He Ran Into Them
Posted by Ellen
July 16, 2013
George Zimmerman’s brother, Robert, appeared on On The Record last night where he spoke condescendingly of Trayvon Martin’s family, made race-baiting comments about their attorneys, offered no remorse over the tragic situation that took their son – and instead focused on how difficult it is for the Zimmerman family to live with the burden of having “had to take someone’s life.” Predictably, Greta Van Susteren didn’t challenge a word of that jaw-dropping heartlessness, nor did she tell viewers about any of the racist tweets Robert Zimmerman has sent since George shot and killed African American Martin.
At about the 5:00 mark in the video below, Van Susteren asked if there were “moments of great sorrow and nervousness” during the trial.
Robert Zimmerman replied, “It’s unfortunate that race has any role in this situation at all.”
This, from the guy who likened Martin to the African American murderer of a woman named Sherry West and then tweeted:
POTUS spoke of his Mom acting like a “typical” white woman when encountering blacks. The fate of Sherry West might B why.
That was just one of several racist tweets sent by Robert Zimmerman. But it was a point of racial hypocrisy that seemed to completely escape Van Susteren. Instead, she moved on to ask, “Do you ever think of the Martin family, the Trayvon Martin family?”
Zimmerman’s response was both telling and terrifying.
Absolutely. We expressed our condolences in a statement September of 2012. If I ran into Sybrina or Tracy (Trayvon's parents), I would give them a hug. I would express my condolence, condolences to them. I’m inclined to believe George would do the same thing.
That right there is shockingly condescending. The Zimmerman family issued “a statement” expressing its condolences a year ago and that was the last time they thought of Trayvon Martin’s family? But while he indicated no remorse, no sorrow from anyone in the family over what they must be going through and have gone through during the trial, he’d nonetheless “give them a hug” if he ran into them?
But wait there’s more. Zimmerman went on to describe the Martin-family advisors as racist “things.”
…Now, these things that surround Sybrina and Tracy: Mr. Crump, Ms. Jackson, these people who, who I think really exploited very pure grief - and other race profiteers like the NAACP, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, that’s how I see them. I wouldn’t give them a hug.
Then, Zimmerman went on to suggest that the only grief and sorrow he ever thought about was that of his own family:
But Sybrina lost her son and so did Tracy and you know, now that we have this verdict of not guilty, I think what I will always remember is the rawness of the emotion, the deafening silence when you hear your brother took someone’s life in self defense, it still hasn’t gone away. You know, the tension of having him on trial is gone. …But whenever I look at George, I’m always gonna see and he’s always gonna have to live with – just as anyone who had to take someone’s life – that they have to carry that burden around for the rest of their life now.
You’d think that the Zimmerman family would show some graciousness at this hour, extend a hand of reconciliation to the African American community, ask for forgiveness and understanding or something to soothe the psychic wounds George Zimmerman caused by shooting and killing an unarmed black teenager. But no. While calls for calm and peace have come from African American leaders and the Martin family attorney, Robert Zimmerman fanned the flames. And Fox News helped.
http://www.newshounds.us/zimmerman_s_brother_no_remorse_but_he_d_give_trayvon_martin_s_family_a_hug_if_he_ran_into_them_07162013#MpSUCHbBPfbCBb50.99
Shellie Zimmerman seems to be the only one who isn't wallowing in self pity and anger. That's why she can express more genuine compassion. That's also why she's the only one in that family who seems able to take responsibility for her own behavior, without making excuses for herself. She'll move forward and get her life together, while George Zimmerman continues to become a train wreck.
