Wow, mac, you're one of the last people I'd expect to create a race-baiting thread like this.
The difference in the Trayvon Martin case is palpable. An unarmed teenager was killed by a guy who'd been literally stalking him, and the police didn't even arrest the shooter. Why?
Because of Florida's Stand Your Ground Law... that's why. Under SYG, the shooter simply had to tell the police that he feared for his life, then the police pat him on the back and send him home... because, as John Stewart so aptly put it, "He said, he dead", so only one side of the story was told and only one side was necessary according to SYG.
That is why it became national news as the outrage over the fact that a teenager could be gunned down a few steps from his own apartment, and the shooter just shrugged and said, "Hey, I was afraid" and poof! The police send him on his way even before the body was moved.
As for those who are using Al Sharpton, whom I despise, and Obama, for whom I have little use, as a scapegoat for the public outrage, may I remind you that neither of them said anything or had any knowledge of this case
before the story went national, and made their statements
after the story had become #1 news on all the media. They did not
cause the public outcry; they
responded to it.
I swear to god, people seem to shake their heads so hard their brains fly out their ears when it comes to this Martin/Zimmerman ****-storm, otherwise known as the story that will never die. I'm sick to death of seeing it brought up every time someone gets a bug up their ass to create yet another race-baiting thread. :2mad: