The Zimmerman Trial and Black Skin Privilege

[_Droopy]

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The trial of George Zimmerman is winding down with a meltdown of the prosecution’s case and lurid predictions of riots if a “politically correct” decision is not reached. Why is it in America today that racial issues like this one so resemble the Wonderland world where, as the Red Queen famously says, “first the sentence, then the evidence”? Why is it that Americans consider blacks to be much more racist on the whole than whites, yet the latter is exclusively singled out for scorn? David Horowitz and John Perazzo provide answers in their pamphlet Black Skin Privilege, written not long after Zimmerman was arrested in connection with the Trayvon Martin death. Here’s what Horowitz and Perazzo say:

In America today, blacks generally can conduct racist assaults on whites and count on “civil rights” activists and the media not to notice. In the two months following Trayvon Martin’s death, black assailants carried out at least 14 fourteen known attacks against white victims with the idea of “avenging” the fallen youth. In East Toledo, six juveniles beat a 78-year-old white man, shouting: “This is for Trayvon … Trayvon lives, white [man]. Kill that white [man]!” In Gainesville, five blacks shouting “Trayvon!” beat a 27-year-old white man, leaving his face permanently disfigured. In another Gainesville incident, a black crowd shouting “Trayvon!” assaulted and stomped on a white man who was trying to recover his female companion’s purse from the hands of a black thief. In Chicago, two black teenagers beat and robbed a 19-year-old white man because, as one of the attackers explained, they were angry about Trayvon Martin. In Baltimore, a group of blacks beat and robbed a white man, stripping him naked, then posted a video of the assault online with the caption: “me an my boys helped get justice fore trayvon.” In Mobile, a white man named Matthew Owens was brutalized by twenty African Americans armed with brass knuckles, bricks, chairs, bats and steel pipes after he asked them to stop playing basketball in the street directly in front of his home. As the assailants left the scene, one of them looked back at the victim, who was bleeding profusely, and shouted,: “Now that’s justice for Trayvon!” It is unlikely that many Americans have heard of these racial attacks, because the perpetrators are protected by a media that does not want to notice that the racists are black, and their victims are white.

Within weeks of the Trayvon Martin shooting, a parallel killing occurred with the skin colors reversed at a Taco Bell restaurant in Phoenix, Arizona. A 22-year-old black motorist got into an altercation with Daniel Adkins, a 29-year-old, mentally disabled “white Hispanic” who was walking by. When the argument grew heated, the motorist drew a gun and killed Adkins. When police arrived at the scene, the black shooter claimed that Adkins had swung a bat or metal pipe at him, although no such items were found at the scene. Arizona, like Florida, has a “Stand Your Ground” law that allows a person to use deadly force to protect himself when faced with a life-or-death confrontation. A protective media withheld the shooter’s name, and there was no racial mob calling for his head. Unlike George Zimmerman, the gunman was not arrested nor charged with a crime. Call that black skin privilege.

If you’re black and possibly guilty but a white person is involved, the media will actively volunteer to be your advocate…. In the Trayvon Martin case, the media withheld details of the crime that were damaging to Trayvon in order to protect him and indict Zimmerman — that the mainly white community he had entered at night had been the target of a rash of recent break-ins and burglaries by young African -American men; that the hoodie Trayvon was wore was a uniform for burglars; and that Trayvon had been suspended from school after burglary tools were discovered on his person along with unaccounted-for jewelry. At the same time, the press flooded the airwaves and front pages with sentimental photos of Trayvon as an innocent adolescent, while withholding others of the six-foot-two, 17-year-old who beat the smaller Zimmerman to the ground, smashing his head on the concrete and causing him to scream repeatedly for his life before he fired his gun in self-defense.

Looking at the Martin case, black skin privilege means you can form a lynch mob if the target is a “white” man and the press will overlook it; you can demand a judgment in advance of the facts, and can conclude his guilt in advance of a trial. You can even take “justice” into your own hands by threatening his life as the Black Panthers did to George Zimmerman or twittering his home address like vigilante filmmaker Spike Lee and comedienne Roseanne Barr did in the hope that someone might go after him. If this isn’t a rebirth of the cracker mentality of the segregated South, it is hard to know what would be…

[_moksha]

If this isn’t a rebirth of the cracker mentality of the segregated South, it is hard to know what would be…

It is rather rude of Frontpagemag.com to be taking on the conservative members of this forum in this manner.

[_Bret Ripley]

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/frontpagemag-com/the-zimmerman-trial-and-black-skin-privilege/print/

A protective media withheld the shooter’s name, and there was no racial mob calling for his head. Unlike George Zimmerman, the gunman was not arrested nor charged with a crime.

A few seconds with Google tells me that Daniel Adkins was shot by Cordell Jude, who was charged with 2nd degree murder.

Call that black skin privilege.

Nuts.

[_beastie]

Yeah, the black skin privilege translates into people of color constituting 2/3 of the prisoners sentenced to life. 77% of juveniles sentenced to life are nonwhite. African Americans constitute 14% of monthly illegal drug users, but constitute 56% of persons in state prison for drug use.

Some privilege.

http://www.sentencingproject.org/doc/dp ... yhouse.pdf
http://www.sentencingproject.org/doc/pu ... pt2009.pdf

[_ldsfaqs]

Blacks and whites shoot people all the time and they aren't charged with crimes, because it was self defense.

The only reason this even was made an issue is because the liberal media made it one by portraying Martin as an innocent teenager being stalked by a white man, gunning him down for simply buying skittles.

That however never was the facts, but a perversion of the facts like liberals always do.
They needed a story, so they created one.

[_Jutta]

I have followed up this case from the beginning in German and American media. After all the facts which were mentioned in newspapers, TV reports and internet pages; for me the facts look that way:

Zimmermann was a member of a neighborhood patrol and saw an afro-american teenager who "suspiciously" behaved. He called the police which warned him to do nothing. He did something, he shot the teenager.
Was the teenager guilty of a criminal offense? No!
Was the action of Zimmermann wrong, an overreaction? Yes!
What was the motive of his behavior?
This is the central issue.
And as far as I can judge this, he was afraid and was prejudices more fully more racialistly.
Shall he be convicted of murder or homicide? Certainly!

[_Bond James Bond]

Yeah, the black skin privilege translates into people of color constituting 2/3 of the prisoners sentenced to life. 77% of juveniles sentenced to life are nonwhite. African Americans constitute 14% of monthly illegal drug users, but constitute 56% of persons in state prison for drug use.

Some privilege.

http://www.sentencingproject.org/doc/dp ... yhouse.pdf
http://www.sentencingproject.org/doc/pu ... pt2009.pdf

Nevermind that white people control the vast majority of American wealth and political power. But whatever; black skin privilege it is.

[_EAllusion]

Hey Beastie,

If you haven't heard of it, I strongly recommend you read this book:

http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/1595586431

It's the most compelling case for how our institutions and customs systematically lead to different justice systems for groups largely defined by race and class I've ever read. The drug war in particular involves blacks being policed, prosecuted, tried, and sentenced in highly discriminatory ways that are devastating to black communities. Every step along the way magnifies the process until you see statistical outcomes like those you cite.

[_beastie]

Hey Beastie,

If you haven't heard of it, I strongly recommend you read this book:

http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/1595586431

It's the most compelling case for how our institutions and customs systematically lead to different justice systems for groups largely defined by race and class I've ever read. The drug war in particular involves blacks being policed, prosecuted, tried, and sentenced in highly discriminatory ways that are devastating to black communities. Every step along the way magnifies the process until you see statistical outcomes like those you cite.

Thanks for the book recommendation. Coincidentally, even before I followed the link, the phrase that came to my mind was Jim Crow.

[_ldsfaqs]

Hey Beastie,

If you haven't heard of it, I strongly recommend you read this book:

http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/1595586431

It's the most compelling case for how our institutions and customs systematically lead to different justice systems for groups largely defined by race and class I've ever read. The drug war in particular involves blacks being policed, prosecuted, tried, and sentenced in highly discriminatory ways that are devastating to black communities. Every step along the way magnifies the process until you see statistical outcomes like those you cite.

Absolute and utter liberal lying POOP.....!

More blacks are in the system not because of "racism" but BECAUSE THEY COMMIT MORE CRIMES.... And they have longer sentences BECAUSE THEY COMMIT MORE CRIMES....!!!!
Those who actually work and are experienced with Law Enforcement know this to be the SIMPLE FACTS!

But, liberals always have to have a victim and a scapegoat to push their immoral views.

And only brainwashed and brain dead liberals can't OPEN THEIR EYES and look at black areas and SEE clearly the low class and criminal element compared to white areas. Not that there aren't some white areas with a criminal class, but in comparison black areas dwarf for criminal and immoral activities.

72% of black single parent households wasn't caused by "the man".... the white man, friggen morons!