Thread: George Zimmerman: Prelude to a shooting

A completely different viewpoint on who George Zimmerman is and where he came from.

Link HERE.

It's not a portrait of a racist man who was out to shoot a person for being black.

Originally Posted by Phoenix

A completely different viewpoint on who George Zimmerman is and where he came from.

Link HERE.

It's not a portrait of a racist man who was out to shoot a person for being black.

That is a great, well written article.

Will be interesting to watch people dismiss this.

But...but...but...race doesn't have anything to do with this!

It was a good article. It doesn't change anything I would argue, but it does support many of the things I believe. As for racism, something I think some jump on too quickly and others ignore completely, it's a hard thing to prove. I wonder if some suspected white males, if an innocent white male would have been followed? I don't know the answer for sure, but white do commit crimes and i don't see this type of thing too often. But maybe it just isn't brought to my attention.

However, I don't think racism is the real problem here.

Interesting article.

Originally Posted by Boo Radley

It was a good article. It doesn't change anything I would argue, but it does support many of the things I believe. As for racism, something I think some jump on too quickly and others ignore completely, it's a hard thing to prove. I wonder if some suspected white males, if an innocent white male would have been followed? I don't know the answer for sure, but white do commit crimes and i don't see this type of thing too often. But maybe it just isn't brought to my attention.

However, I don't think racism is the real problem here.

If the person/people you are looking out for are young black males since that is who was known to be breaking into the houses, then it makes sense to suspect an unknown young black male in the area.

Originally Posted by muciti

If the person/people you are looking out for are young black males since that is who was known to be breaking into the houses, then it makes sense to suspect an unknown young black male in the area.

It does. But if white males don't get the same reaction, there might be an issue there. Again, I'm merely speaking hypothetical here.

Originally Posted by Boo Radley

It doesn't change anything I would argue,

Man, I was gonna come back and pre-empt some of what we'd hear from the left, and that was one of them. Other things likely to be heard:

'it doesn't matter if he had black in his family', 'it clearly shows he had a history of violence', 'this shows his frustration of local burglaries turned him into a murderer', 'see, he was playing cop', 'just because there were a lot of crime and witness always saw a black guy doesn't mean he should have followed martin', blah, blah....

I wonder if some suspected white males, if an innocent white male would have been followed?

Did you really read the article? Because based on the events in that neighborhood over 14 months, it seems zimmerman would have been suspicious of anyone that fit a known 'profile' of those that were involved in all the recent crime, regardless of race.

Originally Posted by Boo Radley

It does. But if white males don't get the same reaction, there might be an issue there. Again, I'm merely speaking hypothetical here.

Zimmerman seemed determined to catch the robbers, or help with their capture. I dont think he cared what race they were. They just happened to be black. But you can tell from this article Zimmermans mindset was on criminals not on black kids.