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That is not a violent act. Bashing someone's head in is. Which is just the story given by Zimmerman. You believe him - others don't.

True, he could of just continued to let Trayvon bash his head against the concrete till he passed out or just stopped on his own. He could of just remained in his truck.

A tragic set of events that was contributed to by slanted sensationalist reporting by non-objective media outlets (yes, that was repetitively redundant). It's a good thing that sort of problem (with slanted media reporting) isn't happening today... oh wait... it is. But it's in the other direction, so it's ok. Same white media outlets doing the same thing today.

While you're having a hissy fit Zimmerman's lawyers have quit. Looks like they don't have much trust in him and his stories.

I'm sure that's just as accurate as any prediction made by tea leaves, horoscopes or Nostradamus. Wanna really stop an attack? Tell the leadership in Iran to stop trying to make nuclear weapons. No. They have as much right to produce a nuclear weapon as the US. Now bomb them and start the next big war and stop making pointless threats.

You sure are biased against the dead black kid and his family. Unless you're just playing devil's advocate?

...In a press conference in front of the Sanford, Fla., courthouse on Tuesday afternoon, George Zimmerman's two attorneys, Craig Sonner and Hal Uhrig, announced that they were withdrawing from the case. They stated that they'd lost contact with Zimmerman as of Sunday, and can no longer "ethically" serve as his attorneys. The decision seemed to hinge in part on the fact that Zimmerman did an end-run on Sonner and Uhrig by putting up a website on Monday asking for donations via PayPal. Sonner and Uhrig said they'd already been working on a website for Zimmerman and publicizing it to national media outlets, but that Zimmerman moved forward without their knowledge and has since fallen out of contact. Sonner told reporters that Zimmerman allegedly since called Sean Hannity directly and had an off-the-record conversation with the Fox News anchor...

His latest story is that Trayvon was pushed out the door and told to act suspicious by his family, knowing he was likely to be shot dead and they could then claim all the money they could get their evil hands on.

...An Israeli attack on Iran could occur in the crucial weeks leading up to the US presidential election this fall, according to a report from an Israeli newspaper. The paper, Maariv, a daily Hebrew language newspaper based in Tel Aviv, quotes anonymous officials who said that Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has assured the United States that it would hold off on an attack on Iran until at least the fall. Netanyahu, however, would not promise US officials he would hold off on a strike until after the November elections, the article reports. Due to weather that would complicate air strikes in Iran, this gives Israel a small window of time to make an attack, and could result in such a bombing campaign occuring right before the elections...

If they were the only dismal choices at hand - who would you have put in charge of Iceberg Watch on the Titanic?

...One of the Souths most sensational riots occurred in Atlanta, Georgia in September 1906. For months the city had been lashed into a fury of race hatred by a movement to disfranchise Blacks. The Atlanta press had begun to treat Black crime, especially assault and rape, in an inflammatory fashion. Twelve rapes of white women were reported in one week, giving the impression that there was an epidemic of Black rape. This touched off a riot. White mobs, meeting ineffective resistance by city police, murdered Blacks, destroyed and looted their homes and businesses. Blacks attempted to resist, but were outnumbered. Some Blacks were arrested for arming themselves in self-defense. When the four days of rioting ended, ten Blacks and two whites were dead, hundreds were injured, and over a thousand fled the city...

...In the decade immediately preceding World War I, a pattern of racial violence began to emerge in which white mob assaults were directed against entire Black communities. These race riots were the product of white societys desire to maintain its superiority over Blacks, vent its frustrations in times of distress, and attack those least able to defend themselves. In these race riots, white mobs invaded Black neighborhoods, beat and killed large numbers of Blacks and destroyed Black property. In most instances, Blacks fought back and there were many casualties on both sides, though most of the dead were Black...

...In the last decades of the nineteenth century, the lynching of Black people in the Southern and border states became an institutionalized method used by whites to terrorize Blacks and maintain white supremacy. In the South, during the period 1880 to 1940, there was deep-seated and all-pervading hatred and fear of the Negro which led white mobs to turn to lynch law as a means of social control. Lynchings open public murders of individuals suspected of crime conceived and carried out more or less spontaneously by a mob seem to have been an American invention. In Lynch-Law, the first scholarly investigation of lynching, written in 1905, author James E. Cutler stated that lynching is a criminal practice which is peculiar to the United States. Most of the lynchings were by hanging or shooting, or both. However, many were of a more hideous nature burning at the stake, maiming, dismemberment, castration, and other brutal methods of physical torture. Lynching therefore was a cruel combination of racism and sadism, which was utilized primarily to sustain the caste system in the South. Many white people believed that Negroes could only be controlled by fear. To them, lynching was seen as the most effective means of control...

...It is clear that African-Americans must once again fight to regain their status in the middle class. With all of these factors – the housing crisis, chronic high unemployment rates, lack of decent wages, and the higher education scam – that have crippled these communities, it is hard not to think that there is a war, an institutionalized one with many facets, being deliberately waged against blacks and Hispanics. Minority youth are particularly vulnerable, as opportunities in the future seem out of reach. While it is true that non-Hispanic whites now make up a large segment of the working poor these days, and they too find themselves trapped by student loan debt, low wages, foreclosed homes, and so forth, they have – historically – benefited far more than people of color in this country. One only need look at the recent ‘Occupy’ movement to see that economic inequality is no longer strictly based upon race inequality...

...While unemployment has always been a problem for this particular community, African-American youth are facing a devastating situation in this so-called economic recovery. Overall, unemployment for young men (ages 18-24) is remarkably higher than other demographic categories. Based upon data collected by Demos.org, this particular group had an unemployment rate of 19.7% (compared to women in the same age group, who had a rate of 14.6%). When it comes to African-American youths of this age, the figures jumps dramatically to 32.6%. The figure for Hispanic males of the same age wasn’t much better at 21.2%. And what about their non-Hispanic white counterparts? Their unemployment rate was 17.5%. Clearly African-American youth, particularly males, are struggling the most...

Is a good Idea?

...Ugly, boarded-up homes, leaning hopelessly on their foundations are plentiful in urban and minority neighborhoods.. A new study finds this is most likely because the banks that own them are keeping them that way. The National Fair Housing Alliance released a report of their study that found foreclosed homes in predominantly black and Latino areas “were far more likely than those in predominantly white area to be left in disrepair,” the Washington Post reports. Failure to maintain the homes drives down surrounding property values, increases crime and promotes vagrancy...

I know I'm going to get shit for this, but try it while being black. They probably won't call the SWAT team, but I doubt all you'd get is a friendly wave. A racial filter all can see.

...Another one. The family of Rekia Boyd, 22, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city of Chicago and an off-duty police detective who shot her in the back of the head, for no discernible reason, as she was walking with friends. Boyd was black; the detective is white. He initially said he fired in self-defense; no other gun but his was found...

You say that like size matters. Beside, everyone ought to know it's not length that matters. It's girth. And it's going to 'enter' the Gulf. All very symbolic. And if Iran messes with them, Iran will definitely get fucked over. What if one of them accidently hits a mine and sinks? You seriously don't think we already have prophylactic measures in place? So you guarantee no mines? (course this condom won't break - ooops)

You say that like size matters. Beside, everyone ought to know it's not length that matters. It's girth. And it's going to 'enter' the Gulf. All very symbolic. And if Iran messes with them, Iran will definitely get fucked over. What if one of them accidently hits a mine and sinks? (or to keep the symbolism going Iran gets fucked over but the US gets syphilis as a result)

...Ben Crump, the Martin family lawyer, said that Trayvon's parents were trying to be patient and still hoped he would receive justice. "We want a very public trial so the evidence can come out and show people that the justice system works for everybody," he said. "We know we want that day to come. "We had hoped she [Miss Corey] had enough evidence without the need to convene a grand jury," he said. "The family is trying to have patience and faith through all of this."...

You say that like size matters. Beside, everyone ought to know it's not length that matters. It's girth. And it's going to 'enter' the gulf. All very symbolic.

...The US navy announced the arrival of the USS Abraham Lincoln in the north Arabian Sea and the USS Enterprise, the world's longest naval vessel, in the Gulf of Aden. A senior official in President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government threatened in January unspecified action if American aircraft carriers returned to the Persian Gulf, saying: "We are not in the habit of warning more than once". Although neither ship has entered the Gulf itself, the deployment will be seen as an unmistakable challenge...

Pretty sure the guy who controls the Army is half black, half white. Police, that depends on the jurisdiction. There would be some defections - as there have been from the Assad regime but the end result would be the same. Any Black uprising would be extinguished with extreme violence.