It's Watch!... Neighborhood Watch. Not shoot.

A Bush signed the law, right? Well, there is something of a family tradition of going to someone else's neighborhood, or following them, in the name of self-defense, and protecting yourself against an attack that might happen one day, or that someone else carried out, and you know they're all sort of vaguely the same people, and they have no business here, in our neighborhood, and they need to know that we're not going to put up with it -- so I can see how this sort of law called stand-your-ground would look good through those eyes.

 

Very well put.

 

What am I missing here? That ABC video of the night in question showed Zimmerman had nothing wrong with him, wasn't beat up, etc. Trayvon Martin lies dead. I think any reasonable doubt on whether at minimum a manslaughter charge should be brought has been removed.

 

I agree. There is no doubt as to what happened.

 

Just because Jville has a black mayor don't think the city STILL doesn't have racial problems.
Back to the thread, Why isn't this guy behind bars?

 

Just yanking your chain, 'do.

But I have spent some time in Florida and felt that Sanford and DeLand had a pretty racist vibe.

In Deland, the white folks and black folks sat on opposite ends of the football bleachers.

 

Have you not read the thread?

 

I think racial problems are going a long way to being addressed when a city that is 61 percent white and 51 percent Republican elects a black Democratic mayor.

 

Yes, I've read the thread.
Yes, Jville has progressed. It is not as bad as it once was but it still has a ways to go.

 

Pierce: www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/trayvon-martin-gun-control-7698424?hootPostID=2520cd05025826063fe8b61ff988cfb4

Collins: www.nytimes.com/2012/03/29/opinion/collins-more-guns-fewer-hoodies.html?_r=2&ref=gailcollins

Spectator: spectator.org/archives/2012/03/29/count-me-out-on-trayvon-martin

 

In Deland, the white folks and black folks sat on opposite ends of the football bleachers.

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That can pretty much be said about a lot of cities in America, both majority-white and majority-black cities. I've seen it on both sides. I think it has to do with flocking to people you know as much as it has to do with being racist.

 

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