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I don't think we know enough to know if this was racially motivated at all, but I think the idea that it wasn't racially motivated becaue Zimmerman is hispanic is hilarious. Anyway, race isn't the important part of the issue. That a young kid was killed for no particularly good reason is.
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Exactly. There's plenty of far more obvious incidents, so why invent facts to fit the pre-arranged picture?Originally posted by kentonio View PostI agree, theres more than enough racism in America already, without having to go looking for it here.
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Twitter lynch mob: George Zimmerman is out on bail? Let’s kill him!
Posted at 7:16 am on April 23, 2012 by Twitchy Staff | View Comments
Taylor
@UBlow_TaNashia Ima kill zimmerman myself *loads semi* where he at
22 Apr 12
George Zimmerman was released on $150,000 bail late Sunday night in what the Associated Press called a “low-key event.” Threats of death from the Twitter lynch mob were anything but low-key.
Jawan's Girlfriend
@WhatItDo_BooBoo "@xSimplyAniya: I think imma personally kill George Zimmerman ..anyone's welcome to join (:" Leggggoooo !
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@HeLoves_SexcNay I WOULD KILL DA SHYT OUTTA DAT ZIMMERMAN DUDE IF I SAW HIS ASSS BOAAAAA—
Nay Nay (@HeLoves_SexcNay) April 23, 2012
23 Apr 12
Trizzy T. Montana
@TrizzyTroof_CA I would kill George Zimmerman
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Chatia
@Mslips88 someone pass me a gun, imma go follow zimmerman, shoot and kill him and say #imstandingmyground
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Yes Its ZAIN
@YesitsZain Lets kill #zimmerman
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Louis Davis Jr
@HeartBreakJay_ They done let Zimmerman free lets kill that MF
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WillFolarinMawana
@RealWillMawana George Zimmerman Released From Jail 150,000 Bail! WTF! Nigga You Are About To Die, Start Writing Your Will! Justices Has Not Been Served
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Others hoped someone else would take out Zimmerman so they wouldn’t have to dirty their hands.
جيرمين سميث
@GuccJermaine Kill that mexican muther ****er george zimmerman #WhiteTrash
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The Associated Press
✔@AP 22 Apr 12 BREAKING: George Zimmerman released from Florida jail on $150,000 bond in #Trayvon Martin shooting case -JM
ian moses
@DaItalianBeast @AP Kill george zimmerman
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Ralph Cola
@RalphMDCXLV TF!!! Zimmerman was freed on bail? Kill that man
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Jordan Irving
@jordyfxs They let this nigga Zimmerman out of jail?! Somebody kill this dude already!
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@DiaryOf_A_Doll So I just found out that they released zimmerman dumb ass out of ****in jail I hope somebody get that nigga! That ***** deserve to die smfh!—
Jai Marie (@DiaryOf_A_Doll) April 23, 2012
22 Apr 12
One genius called for the mob to murder Zimmerman because she thinks charges just disappear when someone makes bail.
Ms.Lovely
@Stallionnett101 Once u been convicted of a crime & let out on bail u can't be charged 2x for the same thing so that means sum1 gonna have to kill Zimmerman
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I don't blame the people -- well, okay, I do, the vitriol and ignorance displayed is STAGGERING -- I blame the the media for needlessly fanning this thing up, and the authorities for dragging their feet and thereby giving the media something to play with.Last edited by The Mad Monk; April 23, 2012, 15:34.No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.Comment
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I posted this from facebook a few weeks ago. There were a crapload of these going around:
The opposition to him getting bail recently was staggering as well.
Black people wanting to lynch someone... can anything be more disturbingly ironic?
I think people really think this was a hate crime akin to the guys in Texas who dragged the Black guy with their pickup truck. How the **** do they get that idea?"Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
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From the media?Comment
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That would be my guess.No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.Comment
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People are people, wouldn't it be a bit racist to suggest black people are better than the rest of us?Black people wanting to lynch someone... can anything be more disturbingly ironic?
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So everybody on twitter read that?Originally posted by DaShi View PostNo, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.Comment
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Al Sharpton. A media class that quite happily has Al Sharpton on a tv show with nary a word or a whisper of protest among that media class. An entire political party happy to ally with Sharpton and present him as a voice of moderation, as Eric Holder recently did. And, of course, I use Sharpton is merely as the symbol of a larger problem of racialism in the United States. As long as racial grievance, racial guilt, and the farce of racialism continues unchecked, you'll have people like Sharpton, or these people on facebook, or the New Black Panthers out there calling for Zimmerman's head and putting a bounty "dead or alive" on him to boot.Originally posted by Al B. Sure! View PostI posted this from facebook a few weeks ago. There were a crapload of these going around:
The opposition to him getting bail recently was staggering as well.
Black people wanting to lynch someone... can anything be more disturbingly ironic?
I think people really think this was a hate crime akin to the guys in Texas who dragged the Black guy with their pickup truck. How the **** do they get that idea?
Even Obama's "if I had a son" comment is nothing more than a blase statement of racial sympathy for a boy who happened to share the colour of his skin. And so what? Why should that matter? If Obama married a "Latino" (whatever that is) or a white (whatever that is) then maybe he could say "If I had married a white and had a son he'd look like Zimmerman." My point is that Obama's comment was not merely a hypothetical and in a sense pointless musing, which it was. It is that the choice of this particular musing belied a dangerous sympathy for someone not because he was a victim or a criminal but because he was black, involved in a fight with someone who wasn't, and died. Well, his life ended tragically-no doubt about it. But that has naught to do with how he looks and everything to do with the character, personality and choices of the alleged criminal and the alleged victim.
Racialist ideas have long been a part of the American body politic though they have dissipated greatly in more recent times. But racialism as a phenomenon still exists and its defenders are now the people in charge.
The tragedy is that racialism is so much part and parcel of American culture that race-baiting and lynch mob-like threats are not surprising. What do you expect from a country where a woman who opines that her gender and ethnicity makes her "better" than her fellows can and does obtain a Supreme Court judgeship? Even if only a minority of people accept such ideas, dangerous consequences may follow. Racialism has sown its seed and borne its fruit: the virtual lynch mob. Passive acceptance of the virtual lynch mobs may lead to the rise of real lynch mobs.Last edited by Zevico; April 24, 2012, 08:27."You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."--General Sir Charles James NapierComment
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What don't you understand this time?Originally posted by The Mad Monk View Post“As a lifelong member of the Columbia Business School community, I adhere to the principles of truth, integrity, and respect. I will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do.”
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Zevico, that's all a very nice thought and true, as far as it goes; but if you're peddling the notion that race relations may be strained in only the USA, I'm not buying.Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
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How you are able to believe that a comments column somehow compares with the effect of the media.Originally posted by DaShi View PostNo, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.Comment
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How are you so easily confused? I've said nothing of the sort.
And to think that you, of all people, are making any sort of concrete case against the media is flatly ridiculous. You've only posted articles that defend Zimmerman. You even posted an article about how Zimmerman's father thinks he's a good guy, which was laughably ridiculous. You cherry pick a bunch of comments from loons and claim that it's the media's fault. That you picked only anti-Zimmerman comments as well, further contributes to the fact that you seem to be more upset at "black" outrage which you want to dismiss as a product of the "liberal" media rather than a possibly legitimate feeling of racial injustice (a few loons aside). You're not being subtle here so quit playing obtuse.Last edited by DaShi; April 24, 2012, 20:20.“As a lifelong member of the Columbia Business School community, I adhere to the principles of truth, integrity, and respect. I will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do.”
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The loons are like 85% of Blacks right now on this issue. Seriously.
(and 90% of white liberals)"Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
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