Don't Racists Use Race as a Lever Politically and Personal Gain?

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In one example for political reasons the left labeled Zimmerman white when any other time he would have been labeled a hispanic, latino, or chicano.

In the other a leftist labeled herself a minority for personal gain.





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The Democrat Party is Down to Sacrificing Pawns....

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...but then, that is all the citizenry is to liberalism, pawns to be manipulated and used in the service of governance.

Instapundit:

JACOB SULLUM: More on the Irrelevance of ‘Stand Your Ground’ to the Trayvon Martin Case.

Pretty much everything under discussion is irrelevant here, right down to the political framing: A Hispanic Democrat  shoots a black guy and somehow it’s the fault of white Republicans. Because, I guess, everything is.

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Zimmerman's father: "So much hate from the president..."

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So true. How do we move beyond racism when we are haunted by the specter of racist allegations based on false narratives?






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The Social Cost of False Media Narratives That Power the Political Power of Leftist Hate ...

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Victor Davis Hanson:

So far all that is clear is that there is a growing anger among African-Americans about a failure to immediately arrest the shooter that in turn is provoking an even greater backlash against the antics of Al Sharpton, the creepy bounty offered by the New Black Panther Party, and others who inflame for their own careerist advantage, and no one — not the president, not the media, not the civil rights leadership, not the politicians — seems willing or able to call for a time-out until all the facts are reviewed and released. We have collectively regressed to the days of Rodney King and the L.A. riots and the O. J. Simpson trial — or to something far worse. Hope and change came and went.

I lean toward something far worse... a repeat of 50's and 60's leftist racism. Whether it is blacks in the 50's or whites today, the left gains political power through hate.

When we look we find that racism in crime is not what is portrayed in the media. We find that Whites predominantly kill whites, blacks predominantly kill blacks and amazingly others predominantly kill others:

For visual proof of media racism we need only turn to the media narrative of Treyvon and Zimmerman. Here we find that there are two narratives, one that is years old and preferred by the media and another that is current and closer to the truth:

False narratives like this do not lead to national health. They, in fact, lead to racial division. Why? Because a group of Americans, blacks, are being told one story by the media and by the race hustlers like Shapton when the truth is much different. When this episode goes to court and if Zimmerman is found innocent blacks will feel disenfranchised due to a media lie. How much pressure will the court system feel to find Zimmerman guilty? How much did the same pressure work to OJ's advantage a decade and a half ago?

Then there is the other side, those forgotten by all but family and the courts, when our energies are focused on false racist media narratives and the battle with racist echo of a false accusation. They come from all races but most are a media footnote.

Liberals racism divides and weaken our nation.



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So is this whole Zimmerman thing starting to look like a cross between BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES and the Richard Jewell affair?

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 Instapundit:

So is this whole Zimmerman thing starting to look like a cross between BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES and the Richard Jewell affair?

Progressives, Spike Lee tweeting Zimmerman’s address, making death threats.

There has developed in our society a pattern of accusation based on the assumptions of leftist racial expectation rather than fact. This dynamic has resulted in the public media lynchings of innocent individuals and groups  before the diligence of time is able to reveal media leftist racial accusations  to be the falsehoods they are. In the end  the damage of the accusations remain, haunting society with the specter of racism that never was.






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Witness: Martin attacked Zimmerman

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Although it doesn't matter to some, knowing what happened is vital before casting blame.

MyFoxTampaBay:

The night of that shooting, police say there was a witness who saw it all.

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"The guy on the bottom who had a red sweater on was yelling to me: 'help, help…and I told him to stop and I was calling 911," he said.

Trayvon Martin was in a hoodie; Zimmerman was in red.

The witness only wanted to be identified as "John," and didn't not want to be shown on camera.

His statements to police were instrumental, because police backed up Zimmerman's claims, saying those screams on the 911 call are those of Zimmerman.

"When I got upstairs and looked down, the guy who was on top beating up the other guy, was the one laying in the grass, and I believe he was dead at that point," John said.

Zimmerman says the shooting was self defense. According to information released on the Sanford city website, Zimmerman said he was going back to his SUV when he was attacked by the teen.

Sanford police say Zimmerman was bloody in his face and head, and the back
of his shirt was wet and had grass stains, indicating a struggle took place before the shooting.

Newt on Obama's singling out concern for those who look like Obama:







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