The fact that articles like this are even published by sites like The Nation:
A jury has found George Zimmerman not guilty of all charges in connection to death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. But while the verdict came as a surprise to some people, it makes perfect sense to others. This verdict is a crystal-clear illustration of the way white supremacy operates in America.
HUHHH?????
In the last few days, Latinos in particular have spoken up again about Zimmerman’s race, and the “white Hispanic” label especially, largely responding to social media users and mass media pundits who employed the term. Watching Zimmerman in the defense seat, his sister in the courtroom, and his mother on the stand, one can’t deny the skin color that informs their experience. They are not white. Yet Zimmerman’s apparent ideology—one that is suspicious of black men in his neighborhood, the “assholes who always get away—” is one that adheres to white supremacy. It was replicated in the courtroom by his defense, whose team tore away at Rachel Jeantel, questioning the young woman as if she was taking a Jim Crow–era literacy test. A defense that, during closing, cited slave-owning rapist Thomas Jefferson, played an animation for the jury based on erroneous assumptions, made racially coded accusations about Trayvon Martin emerging “out of the darkness,” and had the audacity to compare the case of the killing of an unarmed black teenager to siblings arguing over which one stole a cookie.
When Zimmerman was acquitted today, it wasn’t because he’s a so-called white Hispanic. He’s not. It’s because he abides by the logic of white supremacy, and was supported by a defense team—and a swath of society—that supports the lingering idea that some black men must occasionally be killed with impunity in order to keep society-at-large safe.
Yep she just called Zimmerman an “Oreo”, Brown on the outside, white on the inside. This is the “No True Scotsman” Fallacy at its most racist!
George Zimmerman was initially portrayed as a “White Male” who shot an unarmed black teenager (no references to fights, cries for help, or injuries to either party), in a “Gated Community”.
To people who are looking for this behind every blade of grass, this was “Old South” Racism.
When it turns out that Zimmerman is of mixed race, and Martin was a violent and troubled teen who was pounding his head into the concrete, well we must double-down! Just because George Zimmerman is Black, Hispanic, and Jewish, doesn’t mean he isn’t a racist white supremacist!
Hell if Zimmerman was dark skinned, maybe he could be called an “Uncle Tom”, or maybe a “House Negro”!
This is amazing, and sickening.
Frankly I’m now PRAYING that President Barack “Trinity United Church of Christ” goes after George Zimmerman for civil rights charges.
The Justice Department said Sunday that it will review the George Zimmerman case for possible civil rights violations, after a jury acquitted the Florida neighborhood watch volunteer in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.
As Zimmerman’s attorney cautioned that his client’s safety is at risk, the Justice Department responded to appeals from NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous and several lawmakers to keep investigating the defendant….”The Department of Justice’s Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation continue to evaluate the evidence generated during the federal investigation, as well as the evidence and testimony from the state trial,” the Justice Department said in a statement Sunday. “Experienced federal prosecutors will [now] determine whether the evidence reveals a prosecutable violation of any of the limited federal criminal civil rights statutes within our jurisdiction, and whether federal prosecution is appropriate in accordance with the Department’s policy governing successive federal prosecution following a state trial.”
You want a REAL and SERIOUS Debate on race in this country. Have the Half-Black President abuse his power of office against a Quarter-Black, Quarter Native-American Hispanic, Half-Jewish man acquitted of all criminal actions, because he doesn’t like the color of his skin.
We deserve lynch mobs at this point, because we’ve been too eager to look the other way on the REAL racism in America over the years.
