Capster78
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It occurred on both sides. Do I believe Zimmerman racially profiled Martin? I think the obvious answer is yes. But what I keep hearing is the black community lashing out at the racial profiling that occurs and not on the reasons why they are racially profiled. They blame society for racially profiling them and put the blame in societies lap in solving the issue when they are not dealing with the issues in their own communities that cause them to be racially profiled. I will not post the statistics because they are well known and it would only be beating a dead horse. The statistics are staggering and I think those who continue to ignore the problem and blame everyone else for it are doing a great dis-service to their own people. That, I think is the core issue that we are failing to deal with. What needs to be done in the black community to get them out of the violent cycle that many of them fall into? How far should society go to help bring about change and how do we create a measured response where the answer does not turn into entitlement? What kind of response can we have in order to come halfway and encourage those in need to come half way so we can all solve this problem. The real problem here is not being dealt with. Blaming society for profiling a problem within your community does not solve the problem and will only continue to be a problem if it is not solved.
The media has also played a large role in this mess. The media played off the underlying racial issues and played both sides like a fiddle. They do so unappologetically and even after it was pointed out to them, they continue to do it even today. Just look at who they interview. All the interviews I have seen have been purposefully staged in order to bring in the racial divide. It all rests in the primary evil called greed. A no name reporter in Florida blew the whistle and pulled the race card. All journalists are looking for that one story that will launch their careers. And we as a society feed it by giving them the attention the seek. Which in turn brings in advertising which brings in revenue. So in essence, we are feeding the problem while at the same time complaining about it. I think this falls on deaf ears with many people because they are just so ignorantly caught up in the mess we call American society that they fail to see the glaring contradictions in it. This case is a perfect storm of many of those contradictions and the media mess in our country is just another one of them.
We imposed our own personal biases on this case and Zimmerman is paying for that. A case that was so glaringly obvious as a case of self defense gets turned into something it should have never been. Should there have been a trial, yes, I believe there should have been even if I think a trial is a waste of time. In any case where someone is killed, there should always be an investigation and a trial. We should always give the deceased that attention and respect simply out of human decency. If we value life at all, it should be important to explore all the evidence in the death of a person even if that person may or may not deserve it. As an individual, they may not deserve it but all humans should be given that respect as a whole. But I think we let this one get out of hand. Many tried to impose their beliefs by using this case as a springboard / podium to express their skewed views. The usual suspects appeared and tried to turn this into something it should have never been. There does need to be a discussion about racial issues, but to use this trial and a persons life as a sounding board for that discussion was wrong. The real problem is having this discussion brings out many issues that many do not want to deal with.
Only when we remove emotion from the discussion will we ever get to the real issues that need to be dealt with. The main problems lie in the African American community. There is a lot of sensitivity surrounding the issue, much of it from the civil rights era which have for a long time put much of the discussion off limits out of political correctness. It's unfortunate that there are so many people out there that are still unwilling to put the issues out on the table and handle them subjectively. They still prefer to handle everything with emotion rather that subjectively. That is why there will be more Trayvon Martins out there, not because society is racially biased against blacks, but because the black community is failing to deal with the issues within their own communities.
The media has also played a large role in this mess. The media played off the underlying racial issues and played both sides like a fiddle. They do so unappologetically and even after it was pointed out to them, they continue to do it even today. Just look at who they interview. All the interviews I have seen have been purposefully staged in order to bring in the racial divide. It all rests in the primary evil called greed. A no name reporter in Florida blew the whistle and pulled the race card. All journalists are looking for that one story that will launch their careers. And we as a society feed it by giving them the attention the seek. Which in turn brings in advertising which brings in revenue. So in essence, we are feeding the problem while at the same time complaining about it. I think this falls on deaf ears with many people because they are just so ignorantly caught up in the mess we call American society that they fail to see the glaring contradictions in it. This case is a perfect storm of many of those contradictions and the media mess in our country is just another one of them.
We imposed our own personal biases on this case and Zimmerman is paying for that. A case that was so glaringly obvious as a case of self defense gets turned into something it should have never been. Should there have been a trial, yes, I believe there should have been even if I think a trial is a waste of time. In any case where someone is killed, there should always be an investigation and a trial. We should always give the deceased that attention and respect simply out of human decency. If we value life at all, it should be important to explore all the evidence in the death of a person even if that person may or may not deserve it. As an individual, they may not deserve it but all humans should be given that respect as a whole. But I think we let this one get out of hand. Many tried to impose their beliefs by using this case as a springboard / podium to express their skewed views. The usual suspects appeared and tried to turn this into something it should have never been. There does need to be a discussion about racial issues, but to use this trial and a persons life as a sounding board for that discussion was wrong. The real problem is having this discussion brings out many issues that many do not want to deal with.
Only when we remove emotion from the discussion will we ever get to the real issues that need to be dealt with. The main problems lie in the African American community. There is a lot of sensitivity surrounding the issue, much of it from the civil rights era which have for a long time put much of the discussion off limits out of political correctness. It's unfortunate that there are so many people out there that are still unwilling to put the issues out on the table and handle them subjectively. They still prefer to handle everything with emotion rather that subjectively. That is why there will be more Trayvon Martins out there, not because society is racially biased against blacks, but because the black community is failing to deal with the issues within their own communities.