Who'da Thunk It?

This post from Mark French over to The Corner, surprisingly, makes perfect sense of the reason Zimmerman ought to be on trial.

Bird is The Word

According to some on the internets and elsewhere a photo that may or may not be Trayvon Martin flipping the bird is evidence of his essential thuggery and proof that Zimmerman shot a kid who had it coming. Leaving aside the fact that all Zimmerman knew about Martin was that he was black, here's videographic evidence that of white thuggery:



What exactly does this mean? Not really sure, but one assumes that, at least in part, it proves that immature Americans enjoy flipping people off.

Post Racial

So maybe she might have been white and the hospital and cops would have done the same; however, the fact of the matter is she was black and she was hauled off to die in cell. Not, of course, that Trayvon Martin  was killed because he was black but rather because he was armed with skittles and ice tea.

We could, if the louts would let us, discuss the meaning of and how to fix these disasters because things are only going to get better if we take seriously the underlying problems.

Roll The Tape

The guy in handcuffs supposedly just got his head bashed against a sidewalk several times after being beaten about the head an shoulders while lying on the grass.



To me he looks like someone who didn't just get his head bashed against the sidewalk several times after being beaten about head and shoulders while lying on the grass.

Post Racial Society

Perhaps you've heard of a little book/movie dealio called The Hunger Games? Well, it seems, the some fans "knew" that that Rue was white and consequently found her blackness in the movie version off putting. I think that this is proof positive that the Trayvon Martin murder case has nothing what so and ever to do with anything other than Zimmerman's dislike of stupid goons.

Republicans

hate Baby Jesus, the Bible, Black people, and hats:



What happens when a nun becomes a member of Congress? No Habit for them?

Consider this "cartoon" from the UT Austin student newpaper:

Because that's the proper way frame the debate; particularly appalling is the "colored boy" comment.

What a horrid bunch.

Hatefilled

There have been a flurry of attempts to paint Treyvon Martin as a thug in an attempt to justify his mindless  murder. Here's one example from the fetid pen of Robert VerBruggen of the NRO. Here's another line of attack from the same horrid little man, Martin was winning a fistfight Zimmerman initiated for no good reason therefore he had to shoot the 17 year-old, about whom who knew nothing other than he was black, kid.

It really is beneath contempt.  Purveyors of the first line of attack seeks to dehumanize Martin by painting him as the kind of criminal we can do without. Advocates of the second would have you believe that a cretinous, authoritarian racist who defied police orders and not only followed but confronted a kid who had done nothing wrong but be black was forced to kill the kid because, as it turns out, cretinous, authoritarian racists aren't, in fact, the Batman nor yet even Robin.

Obviously the VerBruggens of the world aren't interested in making sense of the event or working to avoid it recurrence.  Why? Who really knows.  It may be that they are horrid little men and women bent on making the world less salubrious. Or it could be that they see the tactics deployed by the neoliberals for the past 30 odd years have created a world they want to inhabit, i.e., where violence or its threat is endemic, where inequality reigns, and where opportunity is a function of genealogy -- which is another way of saying the rich get richer and the poor starve.

One thing we can know for a fact is that there is no way to square the current reality with the promise of morning in America.


UPDATE:
It seems that Trayvon Martin called 911; one suspects this ends badly for Zimmerman and the brigade of horrors.

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This Isn't The First Time

that official America condoned the murder of a fellow citizen for no good god damned reason.