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Pryderi

(6,772 posts)
Wed Mar 28, 2012, 01:42 PM Mar 2012

Trayvon Martin, White America and the Return of Dred Scott

Because black people have no rights that the white man is bound to respect.
A black president will have to prove, again and again, to the utter dissatisfaction of cretinous bottom-feeders, that he is really an American.
A black college student will have to prove, again and again, to the utter amazement of benighted white undergrads that he or she really does belong in the University community to which his or her entrance was secured.
A black teenager will have to prove that he isn’t a criminal, to the satisfaction of anyone who might think otherwise, lest they be tackled and shot.

http://www.timwise.org/2012/03/trayvon-martin-white-america-and-the-return-of-dred-scott/

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Trayvon Martin, White America and the Return of Dred Scott (Original Post) Pryderi Mar 2012 OP
I see this more like the Scottsboro Boys. no_hypocrisy Mar 2012 #1
K&R and shared widely. n/t K Gardner Mar 2012 #2
generalize much? nt msongs Mar 2012 #3
What's up with Wise and 'Leave it Beaver?' RZM Mar 2012 #4
The author was speaking from the racist's point of view. You have to read the first part of tha Pryderi Mar 2012 #5

no_hypocrisy

(46,218 posts)
1. I see this more like the Scottsboro Boys.
Wed Mar 28, 2012, 01:46 PM
Mar 2012

No civil rights for people of color, especially if they're young.

 

RZM

(8,556 posts)
4. What's up with Wise and 'Leave it Beaver?'
Wed Mar 28, 2012, 03:12 PM
Mar 2012

This is the second time I've seen him reference it. The last time was in his 'Open Letter to the White Right' after the 2010 midterms.

Also, it's odd that he referred to Zimmerman as a 'Latino white male wannabe.' I'm not sure what that even means or what he is basing it on. Is it because he was an overzealous neighborhood watchmen, or because he had guns, or because he was way too suspicious of young black males? None of those things are particularly white characteristics. I'll bet plenty of other Latinos do or think the same thing. Even if he does identify that way (and we don't know that he does), Zimmerman's father is white. It's natural that he would identify somewhat with that aspect of his heritage. That's like arguing the president is a 'black male wannabe,' because he identifies that way even though he has a white mother was raised by that side of his family. The president has chosen to identify as black based on how he feels inside and that's his own business. This type of shit is supposed to be for the racist right.

The irony is that a white person chiding a minority about how they are 'supposed' to act or identify is the height of white arrogance, as if white people like Wise are the arbiters of everyone else's racial identity. I guess it's a pet peeve of mine. I can't stand white people who tell minorities that they aren't sufficiently whatever because they don't think or behave how said white person believes people of that racial group should.

 

Pryderi

(6,772 posts)
5. The author was speaking from the racist's point of view. You have to read the first part of tha
Wed Mar 28, 2012, 09:12 PM
Mar 2012

t sentence where he said, " This they make clear from their hateful and bigoted musings about Trayvon Martin, a 17-year old black male who made the mistake, in their mind"

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