Now that the truth of who Trayvon Martin was (a burglar and drug dealer) and how he attacked a neighborhood volunteer who spotted him scouting the area, we can go back and see how the media reacted to the event. It is revolting. The august
Economist, for example, waxes lyrical about the injustice of this world:
Before his son's death, Tracy Martin warned son Trayvon that being a black man in America could be dangerous."I've always let him know we as African Americans get stereotyped," Tracy Martin told USA TODAY. "I told him that society is cruel."
Those warning messages have echoed in Tracy Martin's head since his son died.
In the world as it is rather than the world as we would like it to be, certain groups face differential risks of injustice, violence, instability, or abuse. That's why black parents feel a need to give this warning to their children...
This case hit a conditioned reflex in the media's brain, and it reacted instantly, uniformly and violently. The world "Jew" was never said in public, but I wonder if it was the Jewish-sounding name of the volunteer that triggered the whole agitation. No, I am being hypersensitive.
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Zimmerman is Catholic, of I think German descent on his father's side. If his father had been from Peru instead of his mother so that he was Garcia or Perez instead of Zimmerman, this whole circus would never had gotten started - blacks and Hispanics kill each other all the time and that's not news and you can't make political hay from that.
These political theater pieces are all about matching the figures involved to imaginary stereotypes."Violent Jew" does not resonate in the way that "violent white Southerner redneck" does, so the Jew angle was never on the radar. Martin in dead, but the story that goes with it (innocent teen buying candy, etc.) is as much a work of fiction as any TV melodrama and there are never violent Jews in any TV melodrama.
K
The fact that Obama embraced Trayvon the drug dealer as a "son" won't hurt him a bit. First of all, the press will drop the story like a hot potato if necessary - all will be forgotten by November. Apparently the whole thing has to do with Obama shoring up his base. Blacks are not going to vote Republican anyway (Democrats are the party of free goodies) but they may be less enthusiastic about him than last time. Obama needs to whip up the base to increase turnout and nothing whips up the base like a fear of getting lynched. Vote for Obama as if your very life depends on it!
K
Yes, but the Economist is not really for Obama. Why are they lamenting the world's cruelty?
As a goy, I must respectfully suggest that seeing antisemitism underneath this manufactured controversy seems a bit paranoid. IMHO, the American leftist media hates Christian whites orders of magnitude more than it hates Jews. Jews are rather leftist in the USA.
However, the prickly sensitivity to antisemitism seems to serve the Jewish community well. As Audacious Epigone writes,"Israel's survival instincts are admirable. As an American, I can only dream of having a federal government as committed to the well-being of the nation as Israel's is."
Meanwhile in the United Kingdom, similar insanity:
Actual 56 days of jail for tweeting fuck Mumba.
District Judge John Charles "In my view, there is no alternative to an immediate prison sentence."
Anonymous - did you know that Israelis are nicknamed Sabras? Sabra is the Hebrew word for the cactus pear, which is prickly on the outside but sweet and tender inside.
Economist and Obama are on the same team - the liberal bleeding hearts. One of the maxims of the left is that you should always be on the side of the underdog (even if the underdog is a tattooed thug drug dealer/burglar). White people are NEVER the underdog, even when they are (just saw an article that 98% of the employees in the Washington subway system are black and whites are not welcome to work there.) When a Hispanic fights with a black, this causes liberal's heads to explode because they are not sure which is the underdog and they are 100% obligated to support the underdog. Therefore, it is better to call the Hispanic white and prevent the brain explosion. The NYT even coined a new term for Zimmerman - "white Hispanic", which is a term that is otherwise unknown in their pages. As I said before, if a white cop had shot Zimmerman, he would be just Hispanic.
K
For what it's worth, plenty of American media defended Zimmerman instinctively, such as the highest-rated talk radio host in my city. (And probably every talk radio host off of NPR).
It doesn't really matter how the Times or Economist spins it, it's a familiar storyline and people interpret it how they want to. Maybe in this specific case Trayvon really was innocent and Zimmerman really was a bit of a lunatic - it doesn't matter. The story has legs because it personifies the intractable issue of black crime and what police should do about it. I defy you to find one American whose views changed one iota from this incident.
Besides, with Troy Davis executed, there were a number of Professional Protestors who needed a Next Cause.
The issue of black crime is indeed intractable - blacks are a small % of the US population but constitute the majority of criminals. But it is not black crime that is the issue - it is the murder of a black by a (semi) white - a crime that is rarer than hen's teeth, but yet this one death has received more attention than thousands of murders of black by blacks put together. Makes you wonder why?
K
The Economist is 100% for Obama, and anything else that harms the West and weakens Europeans anywhere in the world.
It is a propaganda sheet.
Anon.
Now they are seeking desperately for some reason to condemn Zimmerman. May be he broke his own nose?
Yesterday I saw a post whereby Trayvon's mother saw a blurry cell phone video in which Jorge's nose appear to still be attached to his face, ergo he is lying.
Mrs. Trayvon smells money - her son is dead but her ship has come in. One way or another she plans to cash in on this.
K
I dont think Jorge's savings are worth a lawsuit. Maybe she can sue the police, but the police ordered him to let the suspect go so technically are innocent.
There are a million different ways to cash in - this is America!! Finding someone to sue is certainly one possibility, preferably someone deep -pocketed. But not the only. There is the sale of book and movie rights. The sale of souvenirs, T- shirts, etc. On and on.
K
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