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   momsaid said, over 3 years ago

   Is Chan oblivious, or just stupid? Racism’s role in the case is limited to those who claim that Zimmerman displayed such. Trayvon displayed thuggery, regardless of Z’s race, beat him down, and got shot in the process.
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   echoraven said, over 3 years ago

   @momsaid

   I don’t think the cartoon is meant to reflect the guilt or innocence in this case. It’s just here to say that racism WILL play a role in this case. Whether that racism is PRO or ANTI Zimmerman (or both) doesn’t really matter.
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   pirate227 said, over 3 years ago

   Too bad Trayvon wasn’t carrying that gun the night Zimmerman murdered him.
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   dannysixpack said, over 3 years ago

   ^it depends. Zimmerman defied police instructions (and any peace officer training) and followed trayvon BECAUSE he thought he was going to commit a crime. If the REASON Zimmerman THOUGHT trayvon was going to commit a crime was racial – because he was black, then yes. If the REASON Zimmerman THOUGHT trayvon didn’t belong in that gated community was BECAUSE he was black, then yes.
   
   in retrospect we know that trayvon DID belong in that neighborhood, and merely stood his ground to an armed man, who was defying police instructions. not smart, apparently. I hope Zimmerman is found guilty, and gets the worst sentence possible. life with parole. I hope he lives his life in prision, becomes institutionalized so he can’t fend for himself, becomes old and feeble, then is turned out on the streets when he’s over 95 years old.
   
   here’s the REAL question. if trayvon was equally armed, and stood his ground, gun to gun, how would this have turned out? would the NRA and the right wingers have backed trayvon because he had a gun, or opposed him because some of them are racist?
   
   as to on-guard. i’m a 52 year old white man (at least I appear white). I almost always wear a hoodie when it’s cold out, my pants occasionally droop, I smoked a whole lot of dope (to say the least), I cut school, I am very aggressive when I race cars and boats, but I don’t carry a gun. according to your character assassination I deserve to die at the hands and sensibility of a Zimmerman – who played judge, jury, executioner and god that night..
   
   I also went to school on a scholarship, was the youngest to make ‘professor’ at a major university, and employ 21 people (at least) for the last 28 years. I make more money in a week than you do in a decade, and I think Obama is quite a good president (historically speaking) and that Zimmerman is guilty of cold blooded murder.
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   dannysixpack said, over 3 years ago

   onguard said, 1 day ago

   Trayvon’s gun picture on his phone.

   Typical Conservative. you would convict a man not guilty of any crime because he has a picture of a gun (doesn’t even look like a black mans hands). Are you suddenly anti-gun, onguard? I have some pictures (and movies) i’m sure a right wing nut job like you would prove, in your mind, that’s i’m something deserving of death? Hell, some of the pictuires I’ve taken are of items that are LONG, HARD and FULL OF SEAMEN.
   
   I was very impressed with the US Submarine bowfin on my trip to pearl harbor.
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   dannysixpack said, over 3 years ago

   momsaid said, 1 day ago

   “Is Chan oblivious, or just stupid? Racism’s role in the case is limited to those who claim that Zimmerman displayed such. Trayvon displayed thuggery, regardless of Z’s race, beat him down, and got shot in the process.”
   
   he was defending himself against a self-appointed vigilante that, in spite of instructions from the police, continued to stalk him. Trayvon stood his ground, but the florida law only protects those WITH guns, not the victims.
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   boreas2 said, over 3 years ago

   @dannysixpack

   this wasnt the first time zimmerman chased someone and made him think he was going to attack them . he did it before he chased someone in a car and later that guy told the cops he thought zimmerman was going to attack him …..if he scared anyone who was carrying a gun he wouldve be dead by now
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   backhoebob said, over 3 years ago

   Danny tell me are you always this stupid or are you doing this just to impress us? Also suspect your honesty as I have never know any heavy weed smoker to amount to anything.
   Zimmerman is not guilty and will be found that way. In case you didn’t know it’s called self defense. If that POS of a kid was not black you never would have heard of this case.
   Yes that is a black hand.
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   dannysixpack said, over 3 years ago

   ^right, and trayvon set out that night to mug Zimmerman.
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