David Simon (creator of the 'Wire') blog on Zimmerman trial

[Robbie3000]

You can stand your ground if you’re white, and you can use a gun to do it. But if you stand your ground with your fists and you’re black, you’re dead.

In the state of Florida, the season on African-Americans now runs year round. Come one, come all. And bring a handgun. The legislators are fine with this blood on their hands. The governor, too. One man accosted another and when it became a fist fight, one man — and one man only — had a firearm. The rest is racial rationalization and dishonorable commentary.

If I were a person of color in Florida, I would pick up a brick and start walking toward that courthouse in Sanford. Those that do not, those that hold the pain and betrayal inside and somehow manage to resist violence — these citizens are testament to a stoic tolerance that is more than the rest of us deserve. I confess, their patience and patriotism is well beyond my own.

Behold, the lewd, pornographic embrace of two great American pathologies: Race and guns, both of which have conspired not only to take the life of a teenager, but to make that killing entirely permissible. I can’t look an African-American parent in the eye for thinking about what they must tell their sons about what can happen to them on the streets of their country. Tonight, anyone who truly understands what justice is and what it requires of a society is ashamed to call himself an American.

David Simon | Trayvon

 

[JasonSJackson]

"You can stand your ground if you’re white, and you can use a gun to do it. But if you stand your ground with your fists and you’re black, you’re dead."



its crazy cause i just made a post on this

 

[Asiatic Black Hebrew]

Sad part is this shyt isn't going to blow over anytime soon. The media is gonna keep beatin' this shyt into the ground for the next few weeks at least.

Meanwhile, nikkas are gettin' more & more upset about it each day. I know a lot of dudes that didn't give a shyt about the trial at all, but are now highly upset at the result because you can't get away from the shyt. Twitter, FB, forums, it's everywhere.

We living in dangerous times my nikkas

 

[fscballin]

even though what we do is wrong