Trayvon Martin

raj gibson wrote:

Ned Braden wrote:In Conclusion
Fuck life.

Maybe you are already doing this, but the best thing you (and everyone angered by this) can do is take action for change. There will be opportunities to support the End Racial Profiling Act. Probably lots of other ways to take action too in the wake of the trial's conclusion.

It's fine to vent on message boards but doing something concrete might be the only way to make yourself really feel better.

Ned Braden wrote:I always just sort of assumed I was too poor for that. Don't you have to be a millionaire to be a politician? Or is that just Chicago-tinted stereotyping?
Where does one normally start a career in politics? Mayor of hometown suburb? I could totally get down with running for mayor. Probably have to do an internet sweep for incriminating evidence first.

raj gibson wrote:Maybe you are already doing this, but the best thing you (and everyone angered by this) can do is take action for change. There will be opportunities to support the End Racial Profiling Act.

raj gibson wrote:but the best thing you (and everyone angered by this) can do is take action for change.

raj gibson wrote:I agree that zooming out and getting some perspective is valuable. It's the same thing I've said when people here have raged over past RWS injustices. Doesn't really change the advice I offer here though - there doesn't need to be a dramatic, direct, or immediate payoff for contributing to a cause you think is right.

100% Agreed! As black man, this case was over blown. As much Zimmerman is an asshole for following that kid, that kid was mounted on him and could've killed him. I call it self defense. G

where's the outrage over [crime committed by black man]? the media is too biased to report any crimes committed by blacks

people upset about Trayvon Martin's death are total hypocrites! last weekend, 12 people were shot in Obama's hometown of Chicago. where is the outrage?

the media is obsessed with making this crime about race, but won't report on the wave of black-on-white crime that's sweeping the nation!

funny how you liberals care more about one kid than about the 500 murders that happened last year in Chicago

A man who says he was jogging alongside of a road when three black men abducted and beat him claims the alleged attack was in retaliation for George Zimmerman’s acquittal, police in Senatobia, Miss. told Fox News.

Police Chief Steve Holts told Fox News the alleged victim, who is white, was jogging Sunday night along Highway 51 when, he said, the suspects pulled over and ordered him to get inside their car.

“One of them asked, ‘Do you know who Trayvon Martin was?’” Holts quoted the man as saying. At that point, the men in the vehicle allegedly attacked him. The man, who the chief described as a young resident of the area, was treated at a local hospital.

Memphis television station WREG reported the assailants allegedly told the victim, “This is for Trayvon.” The television station and The Democrat newspaper reported the jogger was badly beaten and later dropped off on a road between Senatobia and Coldwater, Miss.