Shooting of Trayvon Martin - Page 190

On June 28 2013 13:25 DeepElemBlues wrote:
Yesterday, I didn't agree that Jenteal was a total disaster. Today... yeah, she was. She has zero credibility after today. If she had simply stuck to one story, her rather unpleasant personality would have meant much less. Her demeanor and attitude and her status as a "friend" (I thought she was his girlfriend? Now she wasn't?) of Trayvon cast him in a more negative light. The likelihood of the jury thinking Trayvon was the physical aggressor who initiated the physical fight has to have gone up after being exposed to her and because of her testimony. I can't believe that the prosecution didn't at least try to lessen the blow of her quoting Trayvon with the "nigga followin' me" and "crazy-ass cracker." It undercuts the prosecution's argument that Trayvon was not hostile towards Zimmerman while Zimmerman was chomping at the bit to take Martin down.

And as Kaitlin said, the jury has to be wondering how she 'knows' what Trayvon would have done if he had intended to get into a fight with Zimmerman. The defense must be hugging themselves with glee, since the judge won't allow them to show Trayvon's texts and tweets involving weed, guns, and fights. She did their job for them.

It's been very disappointing to see some the racial arguments being advanced here. Racism is racism is racism. Whether or not racism has effected blacks more in the past or today is totally irrelevant. Saying that one person's racism or racist remarks aren't really racist or aren't as bad, because their group has been more effected by racism, is a race-bias divisive argument.

Even though the person who has been advancing it most strenuously (Magpie) undoubtedly believes in it for ideological, not racial, reasons, the effect is that people are divided by their race into categories and qualitative judgments are made based on those categories. The color of someone's skin is not a signpost as to their character and how their behavior should be judged.