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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnn Coulter Spews Hate and Gins up the Base Against Trayvon
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=50511Apart from that, pretty much all that is known with certainty is that Zimmerman called the police to report a suspicious character in his neighborhood, and shortly thereafter he shot and killed Martin.
On the basis of little else, the media conjured a Hollywood script: A "white" man was "stalking" a little black kid -- who could be Obama's son! -- confronted him, beat him senseless as the small black child screamed for help, and finally shot the kid dead, "just because he was black."
Two weeks of nonstop hysteria later, it turns out that every part of that gripping plot is based on nothing that could be called a reasonable assumption, much less a fact.
Now, I would never read anything this hate-monger writes, had it not been for a posting I found on my FB page this morning which left me absolutely dumbfounded. The poster had read Coulter's rant and posted the following:
I am over Tyrone in Florida. All this is to much. Where were all these people when 2 innocent white kid got tortured and killed in Knoxville and now the parents have to sit thru another trial. TYRONE FAMILY GET OVER IT. WHAT WAS HE DOING IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD ANYWAY....
Needless to say, the ranting poster got Trayvon's name wrong; and after that, told the parents to "get over it" and wondered what "he was doing in that neighborhood anyway".
This is the kind of hate and ignorance we are dealing with. This is the racial divide that is getting worse by the day. This is what the right wing is counting on. I don't think I am alone in my fear for this country. The racism is bubbling to the surface and is only going to get worse as Election Time draws near. Because their worst fear is four more years of a black President.
They're not even bothering to hide it anymore.
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)ATTENDING THE TRIALS of those ACCUSED of KILLING Channon Christianson and Chris Newsom - that's where we were. One got the death penalty and the other three got life in prison. *
The difference here is that TRAYVON'S KILLER is still walking loose. No trial has been scheduled.
*Note: Because of a drugged-up judge, the four people accused of killing Channon and Chris will have to be retried, which is a tragedy for their families, but the right thing to do given the state of the judge's mind.
K Gardner
(14,933 posts)replied to the poster - there was an arrest and conviction in the Newsom case. Yes, it's horrible the parents have to sit through another trial, but there is no comparison.
We may need to get together and have a drink before this is all over. I know two other Democrats in this town
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)There are TONS of Dems in the North of our city (not in the North of our county, though).
K Gardner
(14,933 posts)aquart
(69,014 posts)I live in Manhattan. Can't see Republicans because of the tinted glass in the limos.
lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)If she didn't keep trying to make headlines she wouldn't make
speaking gigs or sell books to the gullible Coultergeist groupies.
VenusRising
(11,252 posts)That pic freaked me out!
K Gardner
(14,933 posts)Life Long Dem
(8,582 posts)Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)nt.
Bluerthanblue
(13,669 posts)but stupidity is deadly.
It's the stupidity and arrogance that is destroying us.
NeverEnuff
(147 posts)I have seen this animated behavior, in children seeking attention, narcicists and coke and meth heads but never in all three at once.
librechik
(30,674 posts)they have been trying to keep on the road for 30 years. It's ridiculous.
duhneece
(4,113 posts)I agree that "...The racism is bubbling to the surface and is only going to get worse ..."
I can only pray that racism's ugliness will continue to be revealed for what it is.
Possumpoint
(992 posts)Why does anyone pay attention to that publicity hound? She's the south end of a northbound horse.
Lilyeye
(1,417 posts)who has probably been brainwashed and programmed by disgusting people like Ann and Rush. I mean calling the kid Tyrone? and asking why he was in the neighborhood? Clearly this idiot knows nothing about what happened if they are asking those questions. My best guess is that they don't want to know. None of these people want to have any sympathy for a dead black kid. Instead they want to turn him into some gangsta or thug who was trying to hurt the poor guy who was only trying to protect the poor poor white people in the neighborhood.
The right wing keeps missing the point as they continue to bring up the deaths of white people who haven't gotten a lot of coverage. Many of those killers are charges and convicted. Trayvon's killing was allowed to walk. On top of that, Trayvon's death is the first time I've ever seen a dead black teen get so much coverage. I am only 25, so maybe it has happened before and I missed it.
applegrove
(118,664 posts)of the base to have sympathetic feelings toward somebody black. (SARCASM). They worked so hard and for so long against this very thing. Somebody help them, help them Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease!