The ENTIRE case is made on race and emotion.
Just like O.J.'s acquittal. Everybody could bet good money he was at least heavily involved in the crime if not the murderer himself (some swear his eldest boy killed the victims), but how did black people react when the verdict came down?
I can't say for sure because my high school had about 8 black folk, all of whom were decent kids from hard-working families. We watched the verdict live and there was simply silence.
But ~12 klicks away at my best friend's school, which had a stupid-big graduating class with well-above the nat'l. average black representation (off-the-cuff, I'd guess ~20%), it was pandemonium. My friend said black kids were out in the halls with signs, chanting shit, singing songs ...
I am the first to admit that the prosecution in the O.J. murders case were complete fuck-ups. Marcia
Gay Harden or whoever the fuck Clark talked about how she subsisted on "cigarettes and salad" during the trial. NOT encouraging. And then the defense was able to completely ad hominize anything Fuhrman said into oblivion by suggesting he hated black people. (Ironically, Fuhrman was actually a very good detective and put the pieces of the Martha Moxley case together long before those local idiot cops cowed by the Kennedy Empire ever did.)
O.J.'s team did their job: create reasonable doubt for the jurors. But everyone else knew better.
Still, that didn't stop all sorts of people celebrating the bullshit verdict
just because O.J. is black, did it?
Now, we have the same stupid shit with Treyvon: he's black, so no matter the circumstances, he was just a young man who happened to misstep into a gated community, didn't start beating someone (the wounds from which we have photographic evidence) and was just a real winner who never, ever fancied himself a gang-banger. I mean, all those pics of him smoking dope, brandishing shitty firearms and such -- and on Facebook, no less -- don't at all hint at a kid his age who might chafe against authority figures, especially when said figure is a kind of jowly-faced Mexican-looking dude.
(Aside: Let's be real for a minute: in my neck of the woods, blacks and Mexicans can be mortal enemies. Back when I worked for The Charlotte Observer, I was actually censured when I tried to make known the amount of Latino v. black gang animosity. I was just a petty line editor, but I had a good many reporter friends who were receptive to my input. Some of them were most enthusiastic about the black/Mexican divide, but the higher-ups said NO. Stupid coward bastards typical of a McClatchy-owned rag
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But I digress. People constantly talk about how racist Zimms might be. Well, what about Treyvon? Could it be he had an issue with a Latino-looking community watchman?)
The only reason I posit as much is because the racist black community is quick to ask, "What if Treyvon had been a white kid?"
Well, how might Trevyon have reacted if a black dude called him out for darting about a gated community in which there'd been several crimes committed?
The NAACP needs to find something better to do with their time. And on an incidental note, if black people don't want to be called "colored," perhaps the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People should reconsider its title and mission.
