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

There are certainly plenty of questions being asked. Who should be answering them?

 

Yet, any "insight" into Martin's past is deemed inappropriate.

Besides, this is the word of one dude, who worked a part time job with Zimmerman 7 years ago. This helps us how?

 

Some interesting observations from Rich Lowry today in his column:

http://www.sacbee.com/2012/03/30/4379800/lowry-the-murders-that-dont-count.html

"Everything about the Trayvon Martin case is a matter of contention. About this, though, there should be no doubt: If Martin had been shot by a black classmate, if he had been caught in a random crossfire, if he had looked at a gang member the wrong way, his death would have been relegated to the back pages of the local newspaper. Not a cause, not even a curiosity: Just another dead young black man. Nothing to see here. Please, move on."

"Jesse Jackson is right that "blacks are under attack." According to a 2005 FBI report, blacks accounted for 13 percent of the population and 49 percent of all homicide victims. In 93 percent of the cases, the killer was black. Half of the victims were ages 17 to 29. That works out to 4,000 murders of young blacks in one year, overwhelmingly at the hands of other blacks. In the communities where these killings occur there is, to put it in Jackson's inimitable terms, no justice and no peace."

 

None of this is news. Which begs the question, why don't we see outrage in the African-American community over the numbers Lowry points out? Those statistics aren't new.

Why do we only see protests when it's white on black or brown on black?

 

"We" don't.

theadvocate.com/home/2455638-125/marchers-take-stand-against-violence

 

This should probably be a separate thread, since it doesn't take away from the tragedy of this case.

But, it is true. How many young black men were killed in Bobby Rush's district in the past year? Did he make a fool of himself on the House floor in order to highlight any of their deaths?

I've said it before, but their are neighborhoods in Chicago that are fucking killing grounds, and no one gives a shit. As long as the violence is contained to their own neighborhoods, no one cares.

But, let there be a couple of muggings in Lincoln Park, a disturbance an North Avenue Beach, or a "Flash Mob" on Michigan Avenue, and the public is in an uproar. Business leaders freak out, the press demands answers, and the mayor calls the Chief of Police on the carpet.

Young black men are most likely to die in majority African-American neighborhoods, and at the hands of fellow African-Americans.

Being killed in a gated community by the head of the "neighborhood watch" is what makes this story "man eats dog".

I don't expect the President or the press to make every murder of a young African-American into a Federal case. But, as it now stands, these deaths are no surprise. They are expected. And, they are going to continue.

I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for the next young African-American returning home from a skittles run to be murdered in his gated community.

 

Read the story. Didn't see Al or Jesse's names in it.
Bottom line: they don't care about black on black. But those are the murders they should care about the most.
And this is coming from a guy who thinks George Zimmerman is guilty of at least reckless endagerment.

 

Wait. "Al" or "Jesse" are the only pre-approved spokesmen?

No one ever speaks up against black-on-black crime?

C'mon.


www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-11-15-rally_N.htm

news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1817&dat=20000915&id=KSMfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5acEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4323,2897876

blog.al.com/spotnews/2011/07/sclc_organizing_march_against.html

www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20098538,00.html

articles.baltimoresun.com/1994-01-05/news/1994005012_1_black-on-black-violence-jackson-black-on-black

 

Al and Jesse speak for Al and Jesse. It's the white media that run to them at every opportunity to give them their status as "spokesman" for the African-American community.

 

Well, that should clear Zimmerman since we know from the media that he's white.

 

Unfortunately, in terms of exposure to the public at large, yes.

 

I read that Lowry column and kept waiting for the part where he acknowledged that the cases he was citing were different, in that the police had charged or were still actively attempting to charge the alleged killers.

And it never happened.