The State of Florida vs George Zimmerman: The Trial

Ethnocentrism and the Right

In every country, the right is more ethnocentric than the left. Conservatives have more positive feelings toward members of their in-group and higher levels of patriotism toward their country. In the United States they are more likely than liberals to have a flag in their bedroom. On the other side of the coin, the right is more xenophobic toward other countries and members of out-groups. In America, the modern political era began when the Civil Rights Movement pushed the race issue squarely into the politics of the 1960s. During this decade, opposition to civil rights was a cornerstone of American conservatism. The Republican candidate in the 1964 presidential election, Barry Goldwater, made the fateful decision to fight against the Civil Rights Act. This historic piece of legislation sought to outlaw racial segregation, including—most prominently— in schools. In his 1960 book The Conscience of a Conservative , Goldwater wrote:

I am firmly convinced—not only that integrated schools are not required— but that the Constitution does not permit any interference whatsoever by the federal government in the field of education. It may be just or wise or expedient for Negro children to attend the same schools as white children, but they do not have a civil right to do so which is protected by the federal constitution, or which is enforceable by the federal government.

Although many Americans have been taught to see this debate in the frame of “states’ rights” versus “federal powers,” the universal issue underlying the political controversy revolves around interethnic relations—just as a substantial portion of politics do anywhere else in the world. The specific laws that states have disagreed on with the federal government have concerned racial issues, beginning with slavery. A more recent point of contention pertained to “anti-miscegenation laws.” Until the US Supreme Court banned these laws in 1967, some sixteen states in the American Southeast prohibited interracial marriages.

Well, it's been proven over the years that "right wingers are bigots."

None of the anti Zimmerman theories seems to be able to hold water in any way.

Frank Apisa wrote:

Zimmmerman STALKED Martin...wh

LOl we both know that you are using the word stalked to imply that Zimmerman was planning on attacking Trayvon and that the only reason you are in love with that word instead of the more correct word follow. that does not imply Zimmerman had any plans to attack Trayvon.

let us be practical, Firefly. Zimmerman's supporters are trying to divert anti-Zimmerman posters from the humiliation factor, i.e., the indignity of egg in their face.

The first time one can understand their defense of this murderer,

Well, the jury might be made up of David, hawk, Bill, oraboy and two more bigots after Zimmerman kills one of their kids.

Your imagination is running on overdrive. You need to get a life.

Strange attacking the supporters of Zimmerman as all being right wingers.

Zimmerman is not a right winger he even campaign for Obama during his first run to become president but I guess if you can turn a man without a racial bone in his body into a cold blooded racial killer turning him into a right winger is not all that hard to do.

Then you also had turn a mixed race Latin man with black blood into a white or a white Latin an the hell with the fact that his mother could not even sit down at some lunch counters in the south due to her skin being too dark.

At least Zimmerman wife or ex-wife and his ex-girlfriend are now safe from being killed.

Well, it's been proven over the years that "right wingers are bigots."

From AlterNet.

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Ethnocentrism and the Right

In every country, the right is more ethnocentric than the left. Conservatives have more positive feelings toward members of their in-group and higher levels of patriotism toward their country. In the United States they are more likely than liberals to have a flag in their bedroom. On the other side of the coin, the right is more xenophobic toward other countries and members of out-groups. In America, the modern political era began when the Civil Rights Movement pushed the race issue squarely into the politics of the 1960s. During this decade, opposition to civil rights was a cornerstone of American conservatism. The Republican candidate in the 1964 presidential election, Barry Goldwater, made the fateful decision to fight against the Civil Rights Act. This historic piece of legislation sought to outlaw racial segregation, including—most prominently— in schools. In his 1960 book The Conscience of a Conservative , Goldwater wrote:

I am firmly convinced—not only that integrated schools are not required— but that the Constitution does not permit any interference whatsoever by the federal government in the field of education. It may be just or wise or expedient for Negro children to attend the same schools as white children, but they do not have a civil right to do so which is protected by the federal constitution, or which is enforceable by the federal government.

Although many Americans have been taught to see this debate in the frame of “states’ rights” versus “federal powers,” the universal issue underlying the political controversy revolves around interethnic relations—just as a substantial portion of politics do anywhere else in the world. The specific laws that states have disagreed on with the federal government have concerned racial issues, beginning with slavery. A more recent point of contention pertained to “anti-miscegenation laws.” Until the US Supreme Court banned these laws in 1967, some sixteen states in the American Southeast prohibited interracial marriages.

Well, the jury might be made up of David, hawk, Bill, oraboy and two more bigots
after Zimmerman kills one of their kids.

It'll be fun to watch these guys still advocating
for Zimmerman's right to have guns and "hold your ground."

You're now admitting that their lives were in danger from Zimmerman? LOL

CMR executive Chris Rumbaugh today said O'Mara and Shellie Zimmerman settled by paying a combined $30,000.

He said George Zimmerman refused to settle but that he had no plans to continue legal action against the former Neighborhood Watch volunteer.

Zimmerman was acquitted in Sanford in July of second-degree murder for killing 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in February 2012.

The 30-year-old Zimmerman is currently free on bail, accused of threatening his girlfriend with a shotgun and shoving her.

In paperwork he filed with Seminole County authorities last month, he described himself as indigent and facing $2.5 million in bills from his criminal defense attorneys.

After the fatal Sanford shooting, Zimmerman went into hiding and hired a series of bodyguards.

After he signed O'Mara as his defense attorney, they hired CMR.

That company is headed by Rumbaugh, a former undercover Orange County drug agent and SWAT team member.

Rumbaugh filed suit a year ago, accusing Zimmerman and O'Mara of agreeing to an elaborate security plan then failing to pay in full.

"I'm very professional," Rumbaugh said. "I did a very professional job. Nothing happened to them while they were under my watch."

O'Mara previously said that he and Zimmerman had paid Rumbaugh's company more than $40,000.

It was billing them more than $7,000 a week, he said.

The two sides had been involved in settlement talks for several weeks.

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