@BillRM,
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It not whites racists or white gangs that making the center cities a hell hole for raising black children with special note of Chicago.
People like you, who oppose the tighter gun control legislation and background checks that would prevent shadow buyers from purchasing guns that wind up on the streets of Chicago, help to contribute to all those homicides on Chicago's streets.
That's what makes you complicit in all those gun-related deaths in our inner cities, "Whitey", you're enabling all that violence. The black community wants tighter gun controls to help stop the streets of their communities being flooded with guns that people, like you, help to facilitate being bought and brought in.
So yes, white racism does contribute to the problem--as long as "those people" are killing themselves, the problem really doesn't bother you, and you have no interest in trying to curb it with sensible gun control measures.
But Trayvon Martin was not killed on the mean streets, which is what makes his death even more tragic. He wasn't a ghetto kid killed as a result of the violence that plagues those inner cities. He was a middle class kid, killed in a predominantly white, middle class, private gated community--the kind of place where a kid, even a black kid, should be safe from gun violence.
And all Martin was doing was walking back from a trip to the store, yakking on his cell phone and minding his own business. But he still wasn't safe from the suspiciousness, and anger, that the color of his skin set off in the mind of George Zimmerman, and apparently, in the minds of people like you as well. And that suspiciousness and anger is what caused his needless and avoidable death. And, what's worse, you're patting George Zimmerman on the back for that, and for the racial profiling that led to a needless and avoidable death. Why not just blame Trayvon for being black? And, certainly, by wearing a hoodie in the rain, he definitely was "asking for it" wasn't he?
And you blame his parents as well, two decent loving parents who were obviously guiding Martin toward the right path, toward college, just like his older brother, because they wanted him to have a successful life and future, and they wanted him to have a belief in his self-worth and his abilities. And, the tragedy for them, was that, despite their best efforts, their child became the victim of gun violence anyway, because an angry wannabe cop/vigilante took one look at their child's skin color and began stalking him in the one place he really should have been safe.
And you're such a racist, you can't even feel any compassion or empathy for these parents, and you trash them as well, for an act of violence that really began as soon as George Zimmerman spotted their son, because he wasn't going to let this "f--ing punk" get away.
You make me puke.
