Monday, March 26, 2012

Conservatives: Trayvon Martin Was "A Wannabe Gangsta"

Rightbloggers Find the Trayvon Martin Case Proof of Racism -- Against White People

One of the enduring myths of American conservatism is that there's still racism in this country -- and it's suffered by white people at the hands of blacks and white liberal race-traitors.

Normal people who've been out of their homes a time or two will find that puzzling. But for rightbloggers it's a home truth.

Don't believe it? Feast your eyes on the rightblogger coverage of the Trayvon Martin case.


As you've probably heard, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot dead by 28-year-old George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida. The white shooter had called 911 to complain that a black guy was walking around his neighborhood, then opened fire.

There has been some dispute about what preceded the killing: An unnamed witness claims the 140-lb. Martin physically attacked the 240-lb. Zimmerman; no one knows for sure whether this happened before or after Martin saw the stranger coming at him with a gun.

What's not in dispute is that Martin was unarmed (though he was carrying Skittles and wearing a hoodie), and that Zimmerman was not arrested by the local police after he shot Martin dead.

This has expectedly enraged a lot of people who consider it one more in a long series of incidents in which white people have killed black people for nothing and gotten away with it.

Rightbloggers were enraged too -- that anyone felt sorry for the dead black kid rather than for the live white killer.

Their main argument was: Why does a white guy killing a black guy and getting away with it make you libtards think of racism?

Neal Boortz admitted that "as things look now," it seemed as if Zimmerman were "a law enforcement wannabe who was destined to end up in a controversy like this." He added that "Trayvon Martin's family says that they don't believe that their son would have been killed if it were not for the color of his skin. I believe they're right. "

But just because he wouldn't have been killed if he weren't black, said Boortz, didn't mean racism was involved.

"People scream racism any time there is a negative interaction between a black and a white person," said Boortz. "There is no evidence that I've seen here which indicates that Zimmerman harbored a belief in the genetic superiority of one race or another... Perhaps Zimmerman just doesn't like black people, though there is not yet any evidence of that..."

Besides, said Boortz, "the entire situation, as you would expect, is now being used by various race pimps and organizations to grab a little publicity for themselves while agitating the crowd and muddying the issue. Foremost among these people is that race-baiting creep from New York City Al Sharpton. The memory of
Trayvon Martin, by all accounts an exemplary young man, is only soiled by the presence of Sharpton."

There you go: Martin was killed because, in Boortz' words, he was black, but the real insult to Martin is that Al Sharpton complained about it.

Some of the brethren asserted that Zimmerman wasn't really white. (To be fair, from photographs Zimmerman could be taken for Hispanic, or Italian-American.)

"Accused killer 'spanish-speaking minority with many black family members and friends,'" headlined the Drudge Report. "Trayvon Martin Shooter George Zimmerman Is Hispanic Member Of Black/Hispanic Family," said Pat Dollard.

Dan McLaughlin of RedState also called Zimmerman "a Hispanic man," but couldn't leave it at that: He yelled that liberals were "still complaining, a quarter century later" about the Willie Horton ads (apparently because Michael Kinsley mentioned them once), then challenged his readers: "If the point is to use crime stories to dramatize real world concerns," he said, "what about a story that affects a lot more people than the fairness and competence of the Sanford, Florida police department: incursions into the U.S. by Mexican drug cartels?"
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Oh, and we suppose if we shot you now, that'd be some kind of "hate crime," right? Sheesh.

McLaughlin then repeated a bunch of news items about drug crimes allegedly committed by Mexicans in America and -- though most of his citations were from mainstream media sources -- accused the mainstream media of trying to cover them up with the Martin story: "The reality is that the Trayvon Martin case is being pushed by left-wing organizations eager to provide a backdrop of racial strife to this year's elections," claimed McLaughlin, "a dangerous tactic, given how frequently popular agitation over these kinds of racially divisive stories have led to riots that leave people dead or homeless and local businesses and jobs destroyed."

Yeah, someone could get hurt -- by which he meant victims of imaginary riots, not some black kid who was actually shot to death.

When Zimmerman's whiteness wasn't at issue, Martin's blackness was: Dan Riehl made much of the fact that a picture of Martin "observed in the media... has been lightened, or softened, somehow. Along with other possible alterations, he looks far more, perhaps innocent is the right word..."

"More white" seems to be the phrase Riehl was groping for. Charles Johnson noticed that the darker Martin photo was actually a photograph of a photograph, which might explain its relative darkness. Johnson also reproduced some deranged Twitter responses to his discovery by Riehl himself (e.g., "Fact is, if [Johnson] walked down the street I grew up on w his ponytail. The white kids and blacks kidz would've kicked his ass 2gether").

Reihl responded with a post attacking "the race-based ignorance of so many blacks I'm seeing in attacking me... blacks especially should feel insulted and upset at the media, including the AP - not me."

Really? Why should blacks be mad at the outlets that ran the photo, rather than at the guy who said the lighter picture made Martin look "far more, perhaps innocent" (and who accused them of "race-based ignorance")?

Because the AP, by running the photo, "appears to be saying to them, lighter is better, while darker is bad," explained Riehl, "and they aren't even able to see that, the pre-judgment and ignorance on display is just sad."

"It's sad to see so many black Americans still falling for it after so many decades," further lamented Riehl in his more-in-sorrow-than-in-racism mode. "Their minds haven't been freed, all that's changed is the owners of the plantation. Too many would be black leaders are too happy to lead them down a path through a cotton field of ignorance and hate ending at the ballot box, before just going on and on with no real end in sight."

Amazingly, African-Americans rallied for the fallen Martin instead of for their true friend, Dan Riehl. Yet the brave Riehl soldiered on for racial harmony, posting shortly thereafter, under the curious headline "The Irony Of Obama: He May Have Freed Whites, More Than Blacks," this racial outreach:

"There is an interesting irony playing out underneath this whole Martin, Zimmerman tragedy the media -- and more importantly, Obama -- now seems intent on making into a national event... last time I looked, there's a black guy in the White House. You want me to cry and feel sorry for you because America is such a racist country, or I need to explore some hidden racism deep within myself? Get over it, loser..."

That's one righteous Caucasian, right there, still waiting resentfully for his ghetto pass.
Other rightbloggers thought the real outrage in the Trayvon Martin case was that famous black people (or, in rightblogger lingo, race pimps) were upset by it.

In response to Jesse Jackson's involvement, RedState diarist gawken raved about "the lynching of Martin's killer" and "Al Sharpton and the usual crew of race pimps." He also triumphantly quoted Jackson's famous statement that "there is nothing more painful to me at this stage of my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery, then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved," which he apparently took to mean that Jackson would approve of blowing Martin away if he weren't such a hypocrite.

"Jesse Jackson Uses Trayvon Martin's Death to Restore the Plantation," said Howard Nemerov at PJ Tatler. (To those confused by that headline, see the Rightblogger Glossary, Page 42, "liberal plantation.") "Curiously," added Nemerov, "Jackson didn't protest when Black, self-employed roofing contractor Hygens Labidou defended himself against two white racists who called him a 'N---r' while trying to pull him from his truck and murder him."

Umm -- what? There was a racist crime in protest of which Nemerov would have welcomed Jesse Jackson? Don't be silly -- Nemerov was just trying to make a point:

"Labidou's story is important," said Nemerov, "because Sanford police interviewed a witness who reported that Martin was on top of Zimmerman and beating Zimmerman when the shooting occurred. Curiously, Jackson didn't mention this even though he claims he wants justice, which used to mean innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt... Meet the new Uncle Tom: Jesse Jackson."

To recap: One of Labidou's two assailants, unlike Martin, was armed with a knife. And Labidou, unlike Zimmerman so far, was charged with a crime. Other than that, totally the same thing. (Update: Our mistake -- Labidou wasn't charged; one of his assailants was, for causing his partner's death in commission of the assault on Labidou.)

Inevitably President Obama made a statement about the case that was relatively anodyne ("Tragedy... If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon," etc); also inevitably, this enraged the belligerati.

At American Thinker Rick Moran complained, "this is the second racial incident in which Obama has jumped the gun and either criticized 'stupid' police as he did in the Gates controversy, or local authorities as he did last Friday in the Trayvon Martin tragedy." In the Henry Louis Gates case, longtime readers will recall, the cops confronted a black guy in his own home because they assumed, the house being nice, that he had to be a burglar, and when he protested they arrested him.

Moran also accused Obama of "essentially calling for the shooter to be arrested and convicted," which bizarre accusation was not borne out by anything Obama said -- which became more obvious when Moran added a "clarification" to his post in which he didn't apologize or back off in any way, but instead insisted "only little children and liberals believe that bringing DoJ into this incendiary local matter doesn't guarantee Zimmerman's eventual arrest and conviction for...something."

Moran then raved that "hysteria ginned up over this horrible incident will ensure that authorities will shape their investigation to satisfy the howling mob... Like it's never happened before? Just ask Sacco and Vanzetti." This is probably the first time a right blogger has asserted the innocence of Sacco and Vanzetti, but as we've seen, racial issues can drive these people to extremities.

Many just said the hell with it and went for the "blacks are criminals" argument.

"Murder is largely an intraracial crime," said Scott Johnson of Power Line. "Almost all murders of blacks are committed by other blacks... If race hustlers like Al Sharpton really had the interests of the black community at heart, they would devote themselves to doing everything in their power to have violent black criminals separated from the community of law-abiding black citizens."

So, in Johnson's view, Martin's killing is just an excuse black people are using to draw attention away from their own crimes against themselves. Johnson used as an example a black guy who killed three black people; at American Thinker, Michael Filozof went him one better and used the example of a black guy who killed a white guy. Then he talked about Reginald Denny and O.J. Simpson, and how "the truth of the matter is that 'civil rights' cases are often little more than reverse lynch mobs... one-third of rapes committed against white women (approximately 37,000) were perpetrated by blacks..."

You get the picture.

This isn't even getting into what the commenter and message-board contributors are saying. We got a taste of that sort of thing last July, when we wrote about right bloggers' factually challenged story about a black crime wave engulfing America -- prompting a huge wave of hostile comments to send in their racial slurs (e.g.,

"Only members of the Negro Worshiping Church of Liberal.dom could remain steadfastly loyal to their black gods despite the white genocide going on around them," "Blacks are cowards, they gang up in packs, and attack weak helpless and elderly victims, but when they are alone they are total chickenshits," etc).

Give those guys some credit, though -- at least they weren't trying to pretend that they weren't racist.

 Courtesy of the New Miami Times

Trayvon Martin: No, That's Not His Facebook Page Showing "Gangsta" Photos UPDATED

Update: Wonderfully, Business Insider touted the bogus photo as accurate in a story on how the media is badly reporting the Trayvon Martin saga. Their source for the photo: white power message board Stormfront.

Update 2: See the response from the Business Insider author at the end of this post.

If you haven't come across the photo to the right, you probably will in the next day or two. Gross racists and assorted other morons are claiming that it's from the Facebook page of Trayvon Martin, the teenager shot and killed by neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman in Sanford, and that somehow that has bearing on the case.

There is no evidence that the photo is of Trayvon Martin, although there is plenty of evidence against it. Even popular right-wing blogger Dan Riehl, who claimed to be among the first to find the Facebook page, admits that it might not be him: "It doesn't appear to be the same Trayvon Martin. But I'm still not sure. It's still linked."

The photo and accompanying link to the profile of a Facebook user named Trayvon Martin has been circulating heavily in the last twenty-four hours. Click on its Facebook shares, and you see the rabble proclaiming that the media has duped the public into believing that Martin was a "sweet kid":
For all those wondering this is the most recent picture of the shooting victim Trayvon Martin. Not the warm hearted pictures the media is feeding the public. I'm not passing judgement till the REAL FACTS of the case come out but lets just be real about the situation.
Cute picture. How come the media only shows the 5 year old picture and not this current facebook photo?
Yep it does look like it could be Obamas son!
Stay oura places u dont belong n u wont have ne problems. If u don't respect our constitution .......feel free to get out of our country
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​There's a wonderful horror-logic to that last one, considering that Martin was visiting his father when he was shot.
But the "Trayvon Martin" the page belongs to lists his school as Myers Middle School. All of his relatives are listed as living in Savannah, Georgia, where there is a Myers Middle School.

The late Martin, who grew up in Miami Gardens, went to Norland Middle and Highland Oaks Middle schools, and more recently attended Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School.

Trayvon Martin's real Facebook page is here, complete with photos and information clearly depicting him, and updated before the date of his death.

The bogus page probably belongs either to another Trayvon Martin, or to a kid who renamed his page in tribute.

Not that it matters. If you're screwed up enough to believe that a 17-year-old unarmed kid deserved to die because he once wore sagging shorts and flipped off the camera, then you're going to keep sharing that image regardless of who it depicts.

Update: Michael Brendan Dougherty, author of the Business Insider post which used the bogus photo, says: "Your characterization of what we did is misleading."

He adds:
We characterized the source of the photo as "a racist message board" precisely to give readers a sense of the credibility - owing to the fact that we did not yet know the original source of the photo.

Once it was reported on the Miami New Time's website that the photo was not of Trayvon, we updated the post and took down that photo. And linked back to this site.
Our story was about the pushback and backlash - both the decent questions that were raised, and the racist muckracking.
Only problem, as noted by the Columbia Journalism Review: Dougherty never suggested that the photos might not be of the Trayvon Martin in question. And his conceit, that mainstream news outlets might have used the gangsta photo of Martin instead of the schoolboy pics they've been using, makes no sense if it's not a photo of him.

Dougherty says of this post: "Please re-write it."

No.

Trayvon Martin’s father: ‘They are still disrespecting my son’ after death by Andrew Jones

The parents of Trayvon Martin strongly condemned new reports that negatively reflect their son in an emotional press conference in Sanford, Florida Monday afternoon. 

Both parents responded to two reports released Monday, where Martin’s shooter George Zimmerman claimed the teenager was the aggressor during the incident and an Associated Press report that found Martin was suspended from school for possessing marijuana.

“Even in death, Trayvon is gone and will not be returning to us,” said Tracy Martin, the slain teenager’s father.

“Even in death, they are still disrespecting my son. And I feel that’s a shame.”

Martin’s mother, Sybrina Fulton added, “They’ve killed my son, and now they’re trying to kill his reputation.”

 

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

National Outrage: Trayvon Martin Killing.

The U.S. Justice Department and the FBI are looking into the matter. Sanford, Florida is the center of the controversy. A young teenager was gunned down by a neighborhood watch captain. The public outcry has now stirred the debate once again about racial profiling and gun laws. The White House express regret. The person, George Zimmerman 28, who fired upon teenager Trayvon Martin, 17 is for now a free man. Zimmerman is fearing for his life after incident.

The conservative media is trying to ignore the story and white supremacists are cheering for more incidents like this to happen.



That was the 911 tape in which the shooter was warned not to apprehend Martin. Below is the picture of the teenager, and George Zimmerman, the shooter. Zimmerman is White (Hispanic).

 From the New York Magazine, the detailing of the controversy.

In what is becoming an increasingly well-known sequence of events, on February 26, during halftime of the NBA All-Star Game, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin walked to buy Skittles and iced tea from 7-Eleven in Sanford, Florida. On his way back to his father's house in a gated community, Martin was shot and killed by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch captain who had just called 911 to report Martin as "a real suspicious guy." Zimmerman, a 28-year-old Latino man, claimed self-defense and has not been arrested or charged, but now finds himself at the center of a prickly national conversation about race, guns, and more. What started as a local news story has, thanks in large part to Internet outrage, become an unavoidable, albeit unresolved, story covered everywhere from leftist blogs to CNN and the New York Times.

Over the weekend, police released eight 911 calls related to the case, sparking a new round of press attention. In the recordings, Zimmerman, who called the police nearly 50 times in the last year, can be heard saying, "This guy looks like he's up to no good or he's on drugs or something." Martin, he said, had "his hand in his waistband. And he's a black male ... Something's wrong with him. Yup, he's coming to check me out. He's got something in his hands. I don't know what his deal is." He added, "These assholes, they always get away."



The dispatcher tells Zimmerman not to follow Martin, but in subsequent calls from neighbors, a struggle can be heard, followed by a gunshot. Mother Jones has a very detailed rundown of the case, and the tangential issues it raises, including, but not limited to, Florida's self-defense laws, the checkered past of the Sanford police, gun control, and potential federal government involvement.

A petition from Martin's family to the local D.A. has been signed online more than 400,000 times, and received a huge boost this weekend as the media homed in on the disturbing details. The New York Times reported on the story for two straight days in its national news section, in addition to a Saturday column by Charles Blow. "This case has reignited a furor about vigilante justice, racial-profiling and equitable treatment under the law," Blow wrote, "and it has stirred the pot of racial strife."

USA Today and the Washington Post also featured detailed reports over the last few days, as did both New York City tabloids. Local Florida publications have been on the story since the beginning, although they lack the reach of the nation's biggest newspapers. But before it was in the hands of influential columnists, the story had already become unavoidable online. As early as March 8, Huffington Post reporter Trymaine Lee was spreading the story, following up seven times since. The site now has a dedicated section and banner for "The Trayvon Martin Tragedy."

The details behind Martin's death have spread socially too. "Trayvon Martin didn't die so we can create a race war, he died so we can promote better understanding," Russell Simmons tweeted, pointing to a Facebook page with thousands of followers. Following suit, Google traffic has skyrocketed in the last few days:
 
And Martin has become a fixture on cable news, as well — with one exception: The progressive blog Think Progress reports that through this afternoon, CNN had dedicated 41 segments to the killing, compared to MSNBC's thirteen, and just one on Fox News. Political implications aside, this story is now officially too big to ignore.

Update: Asked about the shooting this afternoon, White House spokesman Jay Carney said, "We here in the White House are aware of the incident, and we understand that the local FBI office has been in contact with the local authorities and is monitoring the situation." He added, "Our thoughts and prayers go out to Trayvon Martin's family, but obviously we're not going to wade into a local law enforcement matter."

The conservative media isn't covering the story and white supremacists online praised the shooter. This is what we're living in as American citizens. Florida has passed a controversial law called "Stand Your Ground". A firearm owner can use deadly force if the person felt threatened by an alleged attacker. Also did the shooter utter a "racial slur" while on the phone with the police dispatcher? The controversial phrase "fucking coons" was played and they can't confirm or deny it but it's clearly a slur in the video posted below.




There were more 911 tapes. The witness.



As of October 1, 2005, Florida became a "Stand-your-ground" state. The Florida law is a self-defense, self-protection law. It has four key components:
  1. It establishes that law-abiding residents and visitors may legally presume the threat of bodily harm or death from anyone who breaks into a residence or occupied vehicle and may use defensive force, including deadly force, against the intruder.
  2. In any other place where a person “has a right to be,” that person has “no duty to retreat” if attacked and may “meet force with force, including deadly force if he or she reasonably believes it is necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another to prevent the commission of a forcible felony.”
  3. In either case, a person using any force permitted by the law is immune from criminal prosecution or civil action and cannot be arrested unless a law enforcement agency determines there is probable cause that the force used was unlawful.
  4. If a civil action is brought and the court finds the defendant to be immune based on the parameters of the law, the defendant will be awarded all costs of defense.
Once again, Republicans caters to the extremes. They're busy wrapping their asses and eventually their necks in preparedness/defense of these culture wars. This firearm law is a prime example of the Republicans and its allies in the conservative movement catering the gun lobbyist groups such as Gun Owners of America and the National Rifle Association. These laws abashedly give a gun owner authority to shoot and kill an apparent threat without even posing an imminent threat. Picture this if this was a white person being killed by a Black watch captain and the "stand your ground" defense was used. It's a shame though, a young life cut and another fearing that his future is uncertain. If the law doesn't get him, he'll forever be ridiculed by the media or the family of this young teenager.

Thursday, March 15, 2012

"Citizen Journalist" Jason Mattera ambushes Chris Rock

Jason Mattera, a conservative activist with a known history of controversial statements post an online video confronting comedian/actor Chris Rock. Claiming he wanted to get a picture, the activist corners the comedian with questions about the Tea Party. Chris Rock made comments that stated the Tea Party is reactionary racism towards the first Black president. Mattera is a protege of conservative agitator Michelle Malkin.


Chris Rock violently attacked a journalist's camera in January -- after the guy tried to trap Rock with a question about the comedian's controversial stance on the Tea Party -- and the intense footage has just surfaced.

In case you didn't know -- Rock went OFF on the TP last year in an Esquire interview, claiming, "When I see the Tea Party and all this stuff, it actually feels like racism’s almost over. Because this is the last -- this is the act up before the sleep. They’re going crazy. They’re insane."








So conservative writer Jason Mattera decided to question Rock about his opinion at the Sundance Film Festival in January -- blindsiding Rock with a TP question ... asking, "When you said the Tea Party was insane and racist ..."

But before he could finish his question, Rock tried to walk away. When he discovered his path was blocked by other people, Rock turned around and grabbed Mattera's camera and wrestled it to the ground.


A rep for Chris says the actor's attorney is looking into the video.

Rush Limbaugh is losing over 100 sponsors since his attack against Sandra Fluke, many are calling for a boycott on him and other conservative agitators.  Since then many conservative agitators are trying blame comedians (that's right comedians) for the exodus of advertising being pulled from Rush Limbaugh's program., conservatives are trying to "hypocrisy" by entertainers supportive of President Barack Obama.

Bill Maher, Chris Rock and David Letterman aren't as influential to the Democratic Party. They are paid entertainers who make a living on telling comedy that is raunchy, explicit and damn funny!

Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Pat Robertson, Grover Norquist, Fox News and NRA carry strong influence to the Republican Party and its allies in the conservative movement. They control the outcomes of elections and they are influences to how Republicans govern.

Update: Mattera was trying to ambush U2 frontman and activist Bono, and ended up duped by an imposter.

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