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Obama can't win with you no matter what he does. If he hadn't called for calm and peace, then you'd be here degrading for not doing just what he did.
But did he stop there? No. He had to use Martin, as he did Sandy kids, to again push for gun control. Everything he does has another motive. He should've stopped at calling for calm and then shut up.
Obama can't win with you no matter what he does. If he hadn't called for calm and peace, then you'd be here degrading for not doing just what he did.
That's not the point, many civil rights leaders have called for calm. The OP is trying to label people thinking there would be riots as racists itching for some sort of race war.
I'm not surprised. This is an immature display in the face of a verdict they "don't like". They don't realize that they're protesting the system of justice we have. If they don't like it they should work to change it.
It's time people realized that they don't always get what they want, what they want isn't always right, and being thwarted doesn't justify a temper tantrum that destroys property and hurts others along the way.
What we are seeing is *their* racism (and ignorance) on display.
Maybe you should have looked at photos of how people expressed themselves. You would have also seen that 'THEY' were comprised of black, white and Hispanic people of all ages.
I will admit I was wrong. Between the media, the warnings that were coming out from both sides, asking that people don't riot (that would seem that the messengers had concern about riots) that we should brace ourselves for riots, I fed into it and reacted thinking/expecting some riots, and there were none - with the exception of Oakland, which was not a riot per se. There was vandalism, but no racial clashes.
If you go back to the very beginning of this case, the police were judge and jury, without any investigation, did not arrest and GZ was released based on his word, that he shot TM in self defense. What kind of law allows someone to kill someone, claim self-defense, the police determine it wasn't, and then you get to walk?
I'm glad the vigils and protests went the way they did. TM's parents didn't want to have TM's death remembered for setting off riots. What they do hope for is that the law and justice is fair for all.
Forces (both black and white racists) and the media have been clamoring to turn the Zimmerman case into some sort of race war. I don't know why; it seems kind of sick to me.
The case isn't really about race outside of the participants being of different ones. The only thing it's about is the stand your ground law. It seems terribly wrong and disgusting that people would want me to believe one way or the other based on the color of my skin.
They are still claiming that there is still time for these riots to occur
I expected some violence, but nothing came close to riots, at least not on the scale of the Rodney King and McDuffy riots.
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