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Why is the media only showing photos of Martin during his tween and early teen years? Why aren't they showing photos of Martin as a 17 year old?
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Idiot. The picture is selected by the parents. The picture obviously has sentimental value for the parents and this is how they want him remembered.
Its people like you that really hold us back from advancing.
Isn't it obvious that Zimmerman has mental issues? 49 calls to 911? The guy is a threat to everyone. He has even attacked a law enforcement official and yet you are trying to defend him by focusing on the class and race of Trayvon?
Are you really that biased?
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Isn't it obvious that Zimmerman has mental issues? 49 calls to 911? The guy is a threat to everyone. He has even attacked a law enforcement official and yet you are trying to defend him by focusing on the class and race of Trayvon?
quote:Originally posted by Afrolunacy revealed: Why is the media only showing photos of Martin during his tween and early teen years? Why aren't they showing photos of Martin as a 17 year old?
The same reason, only one clipped or cut photo of stephen lawrence is used in the media...
What are they hiding?
^ The real photo they cut from.
Note the black power salute.
The media will portray by deception any black victim as 'innocent' as possible in pictures and portray the attackers as ''evil white supremacists''... all to demonise whites.
The stephen lawrence photo was published on hundreds of newspapers, but none of them showed the real full photo with the black power salute.
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quote:Originally posted by the lioness:
Yup, looks like the one local protesters had on signs they were carrying last week. Wearing a hoodie doesn't make one a hoodlum unless black.
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What's sad is that some of these duncebat internet duppies actually beLIEve the sh*t that runs outta their mouths smh...and I ain't offering not ah one tissue fe help dem wipe dat sh*t fram round their mouths neidda...
I hope the other Black members of this forum (the ones who take pride in their Blackness, who love Black People and Black Unity and Black Community, that is) who don't know who Stephen Lawrence is, will look him up right quick....once you've done that, one will see why ANGLO-BATTYWASHOLOGIST AKA CAH-SH*T-HE-RIDES fe get ah one cutlass chop tuh him rass dat yte piece ah jancro sh*t luc-ky yah f*ck...mi fe tell yuh....YOU RENK DUTTY STRINGY-HAIRED LANK-HAIRED PASTY-PALE MUDDASKUNT WEH FAVOR AH ONE UGLY RASS HOBBIT WITH DOWN'S SYNDROME...YUH MANGY CURR GUH DROWN IN CONFIRMED-EEDIAT-BWOY'S BATHWATER...
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quote:Originally posted by Afrolunacy revealed: Why is the media only showing photos of Martin during his tween and early teen years? Why aren't they showing photos of Martin as a 17 year old?
The same reason, only one clipped or cut photo of stephen lawrence is used in the media...
What are they hiding?
^ The real photo they cut from.
Note the black power salute.
The media will portray by deception any black victim as 'innocent' as possible in pictures and portray the attackers as ''evil white supremacists''... all to demonise whites.
The stephen lawrence photo was published on hundreds of newspapers, but none of them showed the real full photo with the black power salute.
Thank you for continuing to prove that your are nothing more than a mentally diseased product of white generational inbreeding. That is not a Black Power fist the young man is holding up, but a general pose that regular people take while being photographed. When A mentally diseased white boy sees that picture he will make idiotic claims that the guy is part of some radical black power orginaztion.
Your white supidity has gotten the better of you white boy.
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Listen, it was an honest question. No need for hostility, okay? Now, you do not know what photos were submitted by the parents, do you? They could have provided them with an assortment of photos, but the media decided to go with the ones they felt would maximize the amount of sympathy from the public. That is a possibility, don't you think? Just saying.
quote:Originally posted by osirion: Idiot. The picture is selected by the parents. The picture obviously has sentimental value for the parents and this is how they want him remembered.
Its people like you that really hold us back from advancing.
Isn't it obvious that Zimmerman has mental issues? 49 calls to 911? The guy is a threat to everyone. He has even attacked a law enforcement official and yet you are trying to defend him by focusing on the class and race of Trayvon?
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It is a Black Power salute. Who do you think you are kidding?
quote:Originally posted by Bonampak420:
quote:Originally posted by Anglo_Pyramidologist:
quote:Originally posted by Afrolunacy revealed: Why is the media only showing photos of Martin during his tween and early teen years? Why aren't they showing photos of Martin as a 17 year old?
The same reason, only one clipped or cut photo of stephen lawrence is used in the media...
What are they hiding?
^ The real photo they cut from.
Note the black power salute.
The media will portray by deception any black victim as 'innocent' as possible in pictures and portray the attackers as ''evil white supremacists''... all to demonise whites.
The stephen lawrence photo was published on hundreds of newspapers, but none of them showed the real full photo with the black power salute.
Thank you for continuing to prove that your are nothing more than a mentally diseased product of white generational inbreeding. That is not a Black Power fist the young man is holding up, but a general pose that regular people take while being photographed. When A mentally diseased white boy sees that picture he will make idiotic claims that the guy is part of some radical black power orginaztion.
Your white supidity has gotten the better of you white boy.
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The scariest thing about Trayvon Martin
By Alexandra Petri
Not faceless or menacing. (FAMILY PHOTO VIA REUTERS)
Fear.
You could smell it all over the story of Trayvon Martin. Fear in the call that George Zimmerman, self-appointed neighborhood watchman, placed to the 911 dispatcher about a suspicious figure in his gated community “looking about.”
Fear in the phone conversation Trayvon had at the same time with his girlfriend, saying that there was a man following him and that he’d put his hoodie on.
Fear in the agonized pleas recorded in a neighbor’s 911 call as the two struggled.
Fear of the nameless, faceless menace of the You-Shouldn’t-Be-Here. It’s the fear that makes you appoint yourself neighborhood watchman in the first place, to make sure nothing Out Of Place shows up. Fear that what you don’t know will hurt you. Fear, followed by rage.
Trayvon Martin was 17 and looked younger. He was carrying iced tea and Skittles. He was unarmed. George Zimmerman must have been terrifying — larger, older, carrying a weapon. Instead, Zimmerman was, by his own account, terrified. He pursued, shot and killed Trayvon.
Fortunately for the fearful, Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law has their interests at heart. To get away with murder, you need not prove that anyone intended you harm before you shot him. All you need prove is that you were very, very afraid. You need a real and reasonable fear that your life is in danger.
But so few fears are. We’re more frightened of public speaking than drowning, of spiders than driving. What the law says is that force is justified if someone “reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm.” In a word — fear. If my fear is big enough, it can outweigh your life.
This law terrifies me. I don’t suppose I can shoot it?
To Zimmerman, the figure in the hoodie was a nameless, faceless menace. But he wasn’t. His name was Trayvon Martin, “Slimm” or “Tray” to his friends.
He wanted to be an engineer, the stories report. He was taking flying lessons. He got A’s and B’s and was majoring, said his teacher, in cheerfulness.
Tom Wolfe, more cynical than I, notes in “The Bonfire of the Vanities” that every kid who dies unjustly and too early retroactively transforms into an honor student with presidential aspirations. This is not quite fair to their memory either, but it is the debt we owe the dead.
Dead children, dead kids, often carry with them the burden of our outsize hopes. “He could have been president,” one commentator noted. He could have been an astronaut. Hope can cast shadows as massive and false as those cast by fear.
We don’t know what might have become of Trayvon. Every possibility ended with those frightened pleas and the gunshot.
We live in a terrified age. You can’t ride a bicycle without a helmet. You can’t knock on your neighbor’s door. You can’t go on the Internet and talk to strangers beause the People You Don’t Know are Bad and Dangerous.
Not as dangerous as you are. You stab and stab at the shadowy Beast and discover it is nothing but a scared boy running along the beach.
Nice people don’t have racism, these days. What they have is something else. Localized fear. Fear of the life outside the gates. You go here. We’ll go here. This is your street. This is my street. This is my school. This is your school. Stay where you don’t look Out Of Place to George Zimmerman, and you’ll be safe.
Maybe the world is worse than it used to be. Certainly the nameless, faceless menace of the Rapist, the Home Invader, the Terrorist, the Child Molester is more terrible and present than it ever was. But even in the first of these categories, the statistics belie the image. Most people know their attackers. But the Faceless Menace is easier to fear. The Unknown is so much more frightening.
“I was afraid of him,” you say. “I was entitled to shoot. You never know what might have happened if I hadn’t.”
If George Zimmerman hadn’t, there would be one more face in the hallways at Dr. Michael Krop High School. And after that, who knows.
Trayvon Martin wasn’t a saint or an allegory.
Neither was he a faceless menace.
On Trayvon’s Facebook wall, a friend lamented the end of their plans. Plans. Faceless menaces don’t make plans. He was an aggressively normal kid, a threateningly typical teen. Only fear made him swell to these proportions. Now he looms over us, shadow fueled by rage and sadness. He’s not going anywhere. George Zimmerman’s getting real threats now.
This is where the fear gets us, and it’s a horrible place.
The Justice Department is investigating the case, after weeks of cover-up and bungling and failure to press charges by local law enforcement. But the standards for prosecuting someone for hate crimes are some of the highest set by law. The standards for shooting someone? Fear is enough.
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Carol City Students Stage 'Walk Out' In Support Of Trayvon Martin
Thursday at 12:30 p.m., hundreds of Carol City High students walked out in support of their former classmate Trayvon Martin, who attended the school as a freshman and sophomore, reports CBS Miami.
Martin, 17, was shot by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watchman in Sanford, Florida, on February 26. Zimmerman is claiming self defense for killing the unarmed teen and has not been arrested.
Carol City students marched Thursday and chanted “No justice. No peace and justice for Trayvon,” according to the Miami Herald.
"We decided to do this earlier, around 11, because, you know, we want justice for Trayvon. We were in the cafeteria, and everybody was talking about walking out of school after first lunch," one student told Local10.
The march was organized on Facebook, reports NBC Miami, and although school officials approved an on-campus demonstration, they did not give the students permission to leave school grounds.
The students walked for blocks with Miami Gardens Police escorts and wound up at Betty T. Ferguson Recreation Complex. Miami-Dade Schools spokesman John Schuster told CBS Miami that buses were sent to bring the kids back to school.
Schuster told NBC Miami that Martin's mother, Sybrina Fulton, had called Carol City's principal and told him to tell the kids not to do "this sort of thing."
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This story is incredible and sad. So are some of the comments in this post. Some people (including Zimmermen) shouldn't have made it past puberty i.e. natural selection. I blame Bike Helmets.
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uh, 'tukler' dude why do you waste your time replying to these trolls? you are one of the biggest hypocrites on egyptsearch, always whining about trolls this and trolls that, and how es is going to the dogs cause of trolls.
yet hypocrite that you are, you spend 20 different posts in 3 duplicate trayvon martin threads, being baited and played by the trolls, whining like an emotional woman, and breathing ludicrous threats bout my haitian is better than your haitan. same thing in my indian thread. Come off it, you pompous whiner and practice what you preach. if not, then shut the fuuvk up.
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