Dueling headlines.
CNN:
Zimmerman’s lawyer works to dispel racial overtones in Trayvon Martin case
George Zimmerman’s Brother: ‘Black Teens’ Are Killers
And you wondered why lawyers drink.
by Tim F| 35 Comments
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amk
because they have two assholes?
eta: also. too. you too drunk to spellcheck?
Laur
The story about the black teenager shooting a baby straight in the face isn’t going to help matters in the coming days. Oy.
jeffreyw
With a needle
And a spoon
And another case
To take my pain away…
Cermet
But all black teens are criminals, I’ve seen that fact talked about on fox news … wait, that just proves this idea is full of shit; the fake news corporation of the thug party says its true, then its a lie – QED
Culture of Truth
I thought it was the debts
Culture of Truth
I was baiting the Zimmerman brother on twitter last night. I feel slightly dirty.
Cassidy
If black people would stop being black, all them good Christian ‘Mericans wouldn’t have to stand their ground and kill them.
Ben Cisco
Clearly, the brother thought it was Opposite Day.
Ash Can
@Laur: The black kid’s a piker. White ones do it 20 at a time.
In all seriousness, dude, really??
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Culture of Truth: As you should. But did you provoke anything out of his ordinary unsubtle racism?
Cassidy
@Ash Can: He’s right though. In one case you have coverage about his blackness and how blackity-black he is. In the other, it’s the same except he shot a white baby.
Villago Delenda Est
@Ash Can:
But he’s right. That incident won’t help matters. It will only further entrench the racists in their attitudes. They don’t see a kid doing something terrible, they see a black kid doing something terrible. It doesn’t even cross their minds that the overwhelming majority of spree mass murdering kids are white.
Cacti
Where was Trayvon during Benghazi? Be you haven’t asked about that, have you librul media?!
Can I be an honorary Zimmerman now?
Lavocat
We don’t drink, we just charge more.
Stupidity will cost you.
Asininity will cost you more.
But head-up-your-ass-insanity will cost you more than most can afford.
It’s all about hangin’ with Mr. Green, my droogies.
Cassidy
@Villago Delenda Est: DING! DING! DING!
Because before the murder spree, they were law abiding white people amassing an arsenal just in case the blahs went and rioted.
Miki
“And you wondered why lawyers drink.”
It’s either that or narcissism.
Oh wait….
ruemara
@Laur: And it’s a completely different case than the Treyvon Martin case. Does every white parent who kills their child in an abuse case make things worse for white people trying to get justice?
jayjaybear
@ruemara: No. That’s kind of the point.
kc
I’ve heard many Republicans express the same or very similar sentiments, and they don’t think they’re being racist. They think they’re just being factual, and if you try to point out the double standard (they don’t hold the white race accountable for crimes committed by some white people), it just does not compute with them.
steverino
I’ve already seen a friend share a Facebook link to a graphic on the point: white guy shoots black guy, liberals all over it; black kids shoot innocent baby, where’s the outrage?!
Pointing out the difference, a crime that black kids will go to jail for versus “stand your ground” defense where the white guy was the inciter and could very well walk, is useless. La, la, la.
Todd
@Cacti:
He was remote piloting the CIA drone that killed the Americans, all under the explicit direction and command of Al Quaeda, Valerie Jarrett, Bill Ayers and George Soros.
ruemara
@jayjaybear: Not as expressed.
Bubblegum Tate
Wingnut blogger yesterday:
kay
I still think it’s wild that SYG allows execution of what may be the only witness other than the shooter.
Sweet. If you’re the shooter.
What dumbshit lobbyist on the Right came up this law? Common sense isn’t their strength, obviously, or maybe it was designed to allow a very favorable eye witness account, you know, the shooter, alone.
Culture of Truth
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Nah, he ran away and hid.
rikyrah
@Laur:
Don’t believe that story either. Has a ‘ Susan Smith’ smell about it.
I am not a kook
New Black Panthers? /snicker
I finally figured out that the archetype American apocalypse story (you know, civilization breaks down, streets are filled with roaming
blahszombies, aliens, Cubans, or North Koreans) with an oppressive outsider government comes directly from the end of the Civil War and Reconstruction in the South. Really, the fall-of-civilization dystopia is an American obsession and thinking about it as transgenerational trauma from the destruction of CSA and their peculiar institution just fits many puzzling pieces together. To me anyway, maybe this is old hat to everybody.They are still fighting the Civil War.
burnspbesq
Fuck off, asshole.
Cassidy
@burnspbesq: Already? A little early ain’t it?
Killjoy
@burnspbesq: Angry drunks are the worst.
Mnemosyne
@rikyrah:
I followed the link to the story from TP and there’s definitely something weird. I don’t know if it’s a misidentification on the part of the mother/eyewitness or if the kid’s family is covering up for him or something else, but the facts available right now don’t add up.
Somebody in the comments of the newspaper linked to a story that had the baby’s father blaming the mother for walking through that neighborhood so, yeah, something’s up.
Ruckus
@kay:
Have to point out once again the truth a philosophy prof stated, “If common sense was just that more people would have some”.
Ruckus
@Killjoy:
Agreed.
karen
Let’s be real. The “Stand Your Ground” law is really just a “Legally Shoot Black People and everyone else we hate” law. And the biggest proof is that even though it’s not written explicitly into the rules, it seems like only white people can use that defense. No one else.
rikyrah
@karen:
tell it.
preach it.