Hoops wrote:Everyone is assuming facts not in evidence. Zimmerman may, indeed, have said this word, but no one has evidence for it yet. All you have is commentary on the 911 tape. Even Mother Jones has on its script of the 911 call where this word was supposed to have been "unintelligible." In fact, I would say that the evidence leans against him saying this word because the word has a bit of a time stamp on it so I would doubt that Zimmerman would even be aware of such a word.
Now, let's turn it around. Let's say one of the OWS protestors said something like ... "Kill all the rich people," or the president sat in a pew in front of where a racist preached. All the tidy, condescending, arrogant, liberals on this board would....
Oh, wait. Never mind.
It appears now that Zimmerman did, indeed, use the word "coon." The fact that an innocent kid was murdered while an entire neighborhood is on the phone with the authorities, and the shooter is not even arrested let alone charged with anything is a much greater outrage than the shooter dropping a racial epithet, but it's relevant because it not only provides evidence that the shooter was not motivated by self-defense but may have been motivated by racial animus. It also could be relevant to the charges that probably should be filed.
Your hypothetical about OWS protestors and your snide remarks about people on this board who don't share your political ideology are misplaced and not relevant to the discussion.