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On July 13 2013 11:26 DeepElemBlues wrote:Show nested quote +On July 13 2013 10:00 GreenHorizons wrote:On July 13 2013 09:43 ThreeAcross wrote:On July 13 2013 09:38 GreenHorizons wrote:On July 13 2013 08:49 TheRealArtemis wrote:On July 13 2013 08:25 Ph4ZeD wrote:
Nigger gets shot, who cares? We need to put them in their place.
User was banned for this post. Wow..I can say some offensive shit from time to time, but this guy didnt even bother to masquerade it lol. -_- I have the feeling that there will be a verdict tomorrow. Im sure that the majority of them feel the same, but want to go over the details to persuade the rest. The banned post's writer reflects that part of the United States a few of us have referred to, where seemingly decent normal individuals actually are complete racist bigots to an obscene degree and had they not just come out and just said it you would of never known. How do you know he is from the States? You do see his location says UK right? Not saying he's from the states just that type of person is out there( and it would surprise you who they are) or more accurately poster where you have hundreds of posts with little to no posts that would come anywhere close to that level of racism and bigotry. Then Bam! Says something showing him as currently irredeemably racist or so childish and petty I would say something so offensive "for the lol's" Just a random example of how you never really know what kind of things someone could be thinking before they say or do something. Not to mention helps you understand what kind of person Trayvon likely thought was following him. Reflects more on you than on the United States that you would make such a statement... The religious belief that America in particular and Western society in general is chock full of secret and/or unconscious racism bubbling just under the surface is a matter of faith and as such unfortunately is not up for fact-based debate. You find someone who believes it and it is very unlikely that any amount of evidence will change that dogma. And it results in silly posts like that quoted.
You have a minority taking up the majority of space in prison. You have towns labelled as having high black population which is synonymous with high crime and poverty.
Racism exists for a reason.
User was temp banned for this post.
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On July 13 2013 11:32 zbedlam wrote:Show nested quote +On July 13 2013 11:26 DeepElemBlues wrote:On July 13 2013 10:00 GreenHorizons wrote:On July 13 2013 09:43 ThreeAcross wrote:On July 13 2013 09:38 GreenHorizons wrote:On July 13 2013 08:49 TheRealArtemis wrote:On July 13 2013 08:25 Ph4ZeD wrote:
Nigger gets shot, who cares? We need to put them in their place.
User was banned for this post. Wow..I can say some offensive shit from time to time, but this guy didnt even bother to masquerade it lol. -_- I have the feeling that there will be a verdict tomorrow. Im sure that the majority of them feel the same, but want to go over the details to persuade the rest. The banned post's writer reflects that part of the United States a few of us have referred to, where seemingly decent normal individuals actually are complete racist bigots to an obscene degree and had they not just come out and just said it you would of never known. How do you know he is from the States? You do see his location says UK right? Not saying he's from the states just that type of person is out there( and it would surprise you who they are) or more accurately poster where you have hundreds of posts with little to no posts that would come anywhere close to that level of racism and bigotry. Then Bam! Says something showing him as currently irredeemably racist or so childish and petty I would say something so offensive "for the lol's" Just a random example of how you never really know what kind of things someone could be thinking before they say or do something. Not to mention helps you understand what kind of person Trayvon likely thought was following him. Reflects more on you than on the United States that you would make such a statement... The religious belief that America in particular and Western society in general is chock full of secret and/or unconscious racism bubbling just under the surface is a matter of faith and as such unfortunately is not up for fact-based debate. You find someone who believes it and it is very unlikely that any amount of evidence will change that dogma. And it results in silly posts like that quoted. You have a minority taking up the majority of space in prison. You have towns labelled as having high black population which is synonymous with high crime and poverty. Racism exists for a reason.
Since when do objective statistics constitute racism?
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On July 13 2013 09:38 GreenHorizons wrote:Show nested quote +On July 13 2013 08:49 TheRealArtemis wrote:On July 13 2013 08:25 Ph4ZeD wrote:
Nigger gets shot, who cares? We need to put them in their place.
User was banned for this post. Wow..I can say some offensive shit from time to time, but this guy didnt even bother to masquerade it lol. -_- I have the feeling that there will be a verdict tomorrow. Im sure that the majority of them feel the same, but want to go over the details to persuade the rest. The banned post's writer reflects that part of the United States a few of us have referred to, where seemingly decent normal individuals actually are complete racist bigots to an obscene degree and had they not just come out and just said it you would of never known.
You realize there is racism in other parts of the world, don't you? He's not necessarily from USA just because he is racist.
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On July 13 2013 11:35 xDaunt wrote:Show nested quote +On July 13 2013 11:32 zbedlam wrote:On July 13 2013 11:26 DeepElemBlues wrote:On July 13 2013 10:00 GreenHorizons wrote:On July 13 2013 09:43 ThreeAcross wrote:On July 13 2013 09:38 GreenHorizons wrote:On July 13 2013 08:49 TheRealArtemis wrote:On July 13 2013 08:25 Ph4ZeD wrote:
Nigger gets shot, who cares? We need to put them in their place.
User was banned for this post. Wow..I can say some offensive shit from time to time, but this guy didnt even bother to masquerade it lol. -_- I have the feeling that there will be a verdict tomorrow. Im sure that the majority of them feel the same, but want to go over the details to persuade the rest. The banned post's writer reflects that part of the United States a few of us have referred to, where seemingly decent normal individuals actually are complete racist bigots to an obscene degree and had they not just come out and just said it you would of never known. How do you know he is from the States? You do see his location says UK right? Not saying he's from the states just that type of person is out there( and it would surprise you who they are) or more accurately poster where you have hundreds of posts with little to no posts that would come anywhere close to that level of racism and bigotry. Then Bam! Says something showing him as currently irredeemably racist or so childish and petty I would say something so offensive "for the lol's" Just a random example of how you never really know what kind of things someone could be thinking before they say or do something. Not to mention helps you understand what kind of person Trayvon likely thought was following him. Reflects more on you than on the United States that you would make such a statement... The religious belief that America in particular and Western society in general is chock full of secret and/or unconscious racism bubbling just under the surface is a matter of faith and as such unfortunately is not up for fact-based debate. You find someone who believes it and it is very unlikely that any amount of evidence will change that dogma. And it results in silly posts like that quoted. You have a minority taking up the majority of space in prison. You have towns labelled as having high black population which is synonymous with high crime and poverty. Racism exists for a reason. Since when do objective statistics constitute racism?
Didn't say the statistics were racist. I said there is an objective reason why racism is well entrenched in American culture.
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On July 13 2013 11:32 zbedlam wrote:
You have a minority taking up the majority of space in prison.
Right, they should just behave, like white people behaved themselves in Africa, right ?.......oh..............wait.......
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On July 13 2013 11:56 HeatEXTEND wrote:Show nested quote +On July 13 2013 11:32 zbedlam wrote:
You have a minority taking up the majority of space in prison. Right, they should just behave, like white people behaved themselves in Africa, right ?.......oh..............wait.......
What are you trying to say?
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On July 13 2013 12:28 zbedlam wrote:Show nested quote +On July 13 2013 11:56 HeatEXTEND wrote:On July 13 2013 11:32 zbedlam wrote:
You have a minority taking up the majority of space in prison. Right, they should just behave, like white people behaved themselves in Africa, right ?.......oh..............wait....... What are you trying to say?
I'm trying to figure this out as well...
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On July 13 2013 12:31 Dosey wrote:Show nested quote +On July 13 2013 12:28 zbedlam wrote:On July 13 2013 11:56 HeatEXTEND wrote:On July 13 2013 11:32 zbedlam wrote:
You have a minority taking up the majority of space in prison. Right, they should just behave, like white people behaved themselves in Africa, right ?.......oh..............wait....... What are you trying to say? I'm trying to figure this out as well...
He's trying to say white people are bad for things they have done (assuming historically) in Africa.
On July 13 2013 11:32 zbedlam wrote:Show nested quote +On July 13 2013 11:26 DeepElemBlues wrote:On July 13 2013 10:00 GreenHorizons wrote:On July 13 2013 09:43 ThreeAcross wrote:On July 13 2013 09:38 GreenHorizons wrote:On July 13 2013 08:49 TheRealArtemis wrote:On July 13 2013 08:25 Ph4ZeD wrote:
Nigger gets shot, who cares? We need to put them in their place.
User was banned for this post. Wow..I can say some offensive shit from time to time, but this guy didnt even bother to masquerade it lol. -_- I have the feeling that there will be a verdict tomorrow. Im sure that the majority of them feel the same, but want to go over the details to persuade the rest. The banned post's writer reflects that part of the United States a few of us have referred to, where seemingly decent normal individuals actually are complete racist bigots to an obscene degree and had they not just come out and just said it you would of never known. How do you know he is from the States? You do see his location says UK right? Not saying he's from the states just that type of person is out there( and it would surprise you who they are) or more accurately poster where you have hundreds of posts with little to no posts that would come anywhere close to that level of racism and bigotry. Then Bam! Says something showing him as currently irredeemably racist or so childish and petty I would say something so offensive "for the lol's" Just a random example of how you never really know what kind of things someone could be thinking before they say or do something. Not to mention helps you understand what kind of person Trayvon likely thought was following him. Reflects more on you than on the United States that you would make such a statement... The religious belief that America in particular and Western society in general is chock full of secret and/or unconscious racism bubbling just under the surface is a matter of faith and as such unfortunately is not up for fact-based debate. You find someone who believes it and it is very unlikely that any amount of evidence will change that dogma. And it results in silly posts like that quoted. You have a minority taking up the majority of space in prison. You have towns labelled as having high black population which is synonymous with high crime and poverty. Racism exists for a reason.
Specifically which kind of racism? I'm not sure how to take this statement because it can be taken in so many different ways? Do you mean that white people are racist against black people for a reason, and that reason is X, Y, or Z? Or are you saying black people are racist against white people for a reason, and that reason is X, Y, or Z? Are you attempting to justify racism? I really don't know what the fuck you are saying but it sounds pretty racist.
Seriously wtf is happening to this thread. I don't know who started it but I wish people would just stop with the racist bullshit.
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On July 13 2013 11:56 HeatEXTEND wrote:Show nested quote +On July 13 2013 11:32 zbedlam wrote:
You have a minority taking up the majority of space in prison. Right, they should just behave, like white people behaved themselves in Africa, right ?.......oh..............wait.......
I've never been to Africa, but what did I do while I was there ?
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On July 13 2013 11:37 zbedlam wrote:Show nested quote +On July 13 2013 11:35 xDaunt wrote:On July 13 2013 11:32 zbedlam wrote:On July 13 2013 11:26 DeepElemBlues wrote:On July 13 2013 10:00 GreenHorizons wrote:On July 13 2013 09:43 ThreeAcross wrote:On July 13 2013 09:38 GreenHorizons wrote:On July 13 2013 08:49 TheRealArtemis wrote:On July 13 2013 08:25 Ph4ZeD wrote:
Nigger gets shot, who cares? We need to put them in their place.
User was banned for this post. Wow..I can say some offensive shit from time to time, but this guy didnt even bother to masquerade it lol. -_- I have the feeling that there will be a verdict tomorrow. Im sure that the majority of them feel the same, but want to go over the details to persuade the rest. The banned post's writer reflects that part of the United States a few of us have referred to, where seemingly decent normal individuals actually are complete racist bigots to an obscene degree and had they not just come out and just said it you would of never known. How do you know he is from the States? You do see his location says UK right? Not saying he's from the states just that type of person is out there( and it would surprise you who they are) or more accurately poster where you have hundreds of posts with little to no posts that would come anywhere close to that level of racism and bigotry. Then Bam! Says something showing him as currently irredeemably racist or so childish and petty I would say something so offensive "for the lol's" Just a random example of how you never really know what kind of things someone could be thinking before they say or do something. Not to mention helps you understand what kind of person Trayvon likely thought was following him. Reflects more on you than on the United States that you would make such a statement... The religious belief that America in particular and Western society in general is chock full of secret and/or unconscious racism bubbling just under the surface is a matter of faith and as such unfortunately is not up for fact-based debate. You find someone who believes it and it is very unlikely that any amount of evidence will change that dogma. And it results in silly posts like that quoted. You have a minority taking up the majority of space in prison. You have towns labelled as having high black population which is synonymous with high crime and poverty. Racism exists for a reason. Since when do objective statistics constitute racism? Didn't say the statistics were racist. I said there is an objective reason why racism is well entrenched in American culture.
You've got your causality reversed. Institutional racism produces those outcomes (which individual racists may incorrectly use to justify their beliefs, but I don't think you're talking about individuals when you talk about "racism...in American culture."
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On July 13 2013 11:32 zbedlam wrote:Show nested quote +On July 13 2013 11:26 DeepElemBlues wrote:On July 13 2013 10:00 GreenHorizons wrote:On July 13 2013 09:43 ThreeAcross wrote:On July 13 2013 09:38 GreenHorizons wrote:On July 13 2013 08:49 TheRealArtemis wrote:On July 13 2013 08:25 Ph4ZeD wrote:
Nigger gets shot, who cares? We need to put them in their place.
User was banned for this post. Wow..I can say some offensive shit from time to time, but this guy didnt even bother to masquerade it lol. -_- I have the feeling that there will be a verdict tomorrow. Im sure that the majority of them feel the same, but want to go over the details to persuade the rest. The banned post's writer reflects that part of the United States a few of us have referred to, where seemingly decent normal individuals actually are complete racist bigots to an obscene degree and had they not just come out and just said it you would of never known. How do you know he is from the States? You do see his location says UK right? Not saying he's from the states just that type of person is out there( and it would surprise you who they are) or more accurately poster where you have hundreds of posts with little to no posts that would come anywhere close to that level of racism and bigotry. Then Bam! Says something showing him as currently irredeemably racist or so childish and petty I would say something so offensive "for the lol's" Just a random example of how you never really know what kind of things someone could be thinking before they say or do something. Not to mention helps you understand what kind of person Trayvon likely thought was following him. Reflects more on you than on the United States that you would make such a statement... The religious belief that America in particular and Western society in general is chock full of secret and/or unconscious racism bubbling just under the surface is a matter of faith and as such unfortunately is not up for fact-based debate. You find someone who believes it and it is very unlikely that any amount of evidence will change that dogma. And it results in silly posts like that quoted. You have a minority taking up the majority of space in prison. You have towns labelled as having high black population which is synonymous with high crime and poverty. Racism exists for a reason.
Non-whites commit a disproportionate amount of crimes in the United States.
There are also many neighborhoods / towns in the US with majority-white populations that are synonymous with high crime and poverty.
Racism is not the only explanation or necessarily the explanation when
About 40% of the prison population in the US is black, blacks are about 13% of the population. Non-hispanic whites are about 65% of the population and about 40% of the prison population. Racism, right? Unlikely that that is the whole or even most of the story.
When committing a violent crime, blacks are three times more likely than non-blacks to commit a crime with a gun. Twice as likely to commit crimes with a knife than non-blacks. Blacks are seven times more likely to commit a murder, eight times more likely to commit a robbery. All of that leads to a much higher likelihood of charges including jail time. Blacks commit about 40% of the reported crimes in a year. 40% of reported crimes, 40% of prison population. How is that racist?
Blacks are more likely to live in poor inner cities where crime is prevalent no matter what race, and those areas have more police available and get more police resources because they are high-crime areas, so a black committing a crime is more likely to be caught because the police catch them in the act or the police have better knowledge of the area and its inhabitants because it is a high crime area, so they have more avenues of information to find perpetrators of crime.
Blacks are a little less likely to join gangs than hispanics; both are well over 10 times more likely to join a gang than whites.
The one area where racism is a clear explanation for higher arrest, conviction (or plea deals with jail time) and incarceration rates among blacks and hispanics is the drug war. Other than that, not so much.
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This whole, there is racism bubbling under the surface of Americans thing is such utter shit. God. It shows how much some people know about American society, when they claim to know a lot about it. Schemas and stereotypes aren't necessarily racist. The fact that some people in here think that raw statistics and number of people jailed equates to racism and not the issues in a particular socio-economic status is just oh-so, so ironic. Let's talk trial, not some ridiculous concept of racism that only exists in the U.S., no where else, and apparently is in every U.S. born person somehow.
Back to the trial: What is the verdict going to look like? It seems like the defense is really strong right now. I'd be hard pressed to convict Zimmerman on most of the counts (I don't know all of them, unfortunately so I can't say he would be fully acquitted) especially the large ones. Recently I've been seeing a lot of "black-out" threat-esque twitter and facebook posts about how if Trayvonn doesn't get "justice," they will riot; any thoughts?
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On July 13 2013 11:32 zbedlam wrote:Show nested quote +On July 13 2013 11:26 DeepElemBlues wrote:On July 13 2013 10:00 GreenHorizons wrote:On July 13 2013 09:43 ThreeAcross wrote:On July 13 2013 09:38 GreenHorizons wrote:On July 13 2013 08:49 TheRealArtemis wrote:On July 13 2013 08:25 Ph4ZeD wrote:
Nigger gets shot, who cares? We need to put them in their place.
User was banned for this post. Wow..I can say some offensive shit from time to time, but this guy didnt even bother to masquerade it lol. -_- I have the feeling that there will be a verdict tomorrow. Im sure that the majority of them feel the same, but want to go over the details to persuade the rest. The banned post's writer reflects that part of the United States a few of us have referred to, where seemingly decent normal individuals actually are complete racist bigots to an obscene degree and had they not just come out and just said it you would of never known. How do you know he is from the States? You do see his location says UK right? Not saying he's from the states just that type of person is out there( and it would surprise you who they are) or more accurately poster where you have hundreds of posts with little to no posts that would come anywhere close to that level of racism and bigotry. Then Bam! Says something showing him as currently irredeemably racist or so childish and petty I would say something so offensive "for the lol's" Just a random example of how you never really know what kind of things someone could be thinking before they say or do something. Not to mention helps you understand what kind of person Trayvon likely thought was following him. Reflects more on you than on the United States that you would make such a statement... The religious belief that America in particular and Western society in general is chock full of secret and/or unconscious racism bubbling just under the surface is a matter of faith and as such unfortunately is not up for fact-based debate. You find someone who believes it and it is very unlikely that any amount of evidence will change that dogma. And it results in silly posts like that quoted. You have a minority taking up the majority of space in prison. You have towns labelled as having high black population which is synonymous with high crime and poverty. Racism exists for a reason.
Are you saying they bring the racism on themselves? Could you please explain your theory further?
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ive watched alot of this case and one thing that kind of bugs me about the system is how the prosecution has repeatedly referred to trayvon martin as a child, and other words like it. its smart to do so, but if the two people involved in this case were switched and the 17 year old killed a 28 year old, how hard would the state be pushing the hes an adult card
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On July 13 2013 12:55 docvoc wrote:
This whole, there is racism bubbling under the surface of Americans thing is such utter shit. God. It shows how much some people know about American society, when they claim to know a lot about it. Schemas and stereotypes aren't necessarily racist. The fact that some people in here think that raw statistics and number of people jailed equates to racism and not the issues in a particular socio-economic status is just oh-so, so ironic. Let's talk trial, not some ridiculous concept of racism that only exists in the U.S., no where else, and apparently is in every U.S. born person somehow.
Back to the trial: What is the verdict going to look like? It seems like the defense is really strong right now. I'd be hard pressed to convict Zimmerman on most of the counts (I don't know all of them, unfortunately so I can't say he would be fully acquitted) especially the large ones. Recently I've been seeing a lot of "black-out" threat-esque twitter and facebook posts about how if Trayvonn doesn't get "justice," they will riot; any thoughts?
If the jury doesn't fall for the prosecution's appeal for "empathy" and "heart" then it should be a slam-dunk acquittal. The prosecution as MOM has stated quite nicely has not provided any sort of significant evidence that puts Zimmerman's story in doubt.
As for the riots, they're a distinct possibility, and will be completely the fault of the sensationalist media.
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On July 13 2013 13:06 PviLLe3 wrote:
ive watched alot of this case and one thing that kind of bugs me about the system is how the prosecution has repeatedly referred to trayvon martin as a child, and other words like it. its smart to do so, but if the two people involved in this case were switched and the 17 year old killed a 28 year old, how hard would the state be pushing the hes an adult card
since they would most likely ask to try him as an adult.....pretty hard.
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On July 13 2013 12:51 DeepElemBlues wrote:
Blacks are more likely to live in poor inner cities...
This is probably the largest cause for the disproportionate number of minorities in prison. The number of ways in which it relates to racism is "all of them."
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On July 13 2013 12:42 LlamaNamedOsama wrote:Show nested quote +On July 13 2013 11:37 zbedlam wrote:On July 13 2013 11:35 xDaunt wrote:On July 13 2013 11:32 zbedlam wrote:On July 13 2013 11:26 DeepElemBlues wrote:On July 13 2013 10:00 GreenHorizons wrote:On July 13 2013 09:43 ThreeAcross wrote:On July 13 2013 09:38 GreenHorizons wrote:On July 13 2013 08:49 TheRealArtemis wrote:On July 13 2013 08:25 Ph4ZeD wrote:
Nigger gets shot, who cares? We need to put them in their place.
User was banned for this post. Wow..I can say some offensive shit from time to time, but this guy didnt even bother to masquerade it lol. -_- I have the feeling that there will be a verdict tomorrow. Im sure that the majority of them feel the same, but want to go over the details to persuade the rest. The banned post's writer reflects that part of the United States a few of us have referred to, where seemingly decent normal individuals actually are complete racist bigots to an obscene degree and had they not just come out and just said it you would of never known. How do you know he is from the States? You do see his location says UK right? Not saying he's from the states just that type of person is out there( and it would surprise you who they are) or more accurately poster where you have hundreds of posts with little to no posts that would come anywhere close to that level of racism and bigotry. Then Bam! Says something showing him as currently irredeemably racist or so childish and petty I would say something so offensive "for the lol's" Just a random example of how you never really know what kind of things someone could be thinking before they say or do something. Not to mention helps you understand what kind of person Trayvon likely thought was following him. Reflects more on you than on the United States that you would make such a statement... The religious belief that America in particular and Western society in general is chock full of secret and/or unconscious racism bubbling just under the surface is a matter of faith and as such unfortunately is not up for fact-based debate. You find someone who believes it and it is very unlikely that any amount of evidence will change that dogma. And it results in silly posts like that quoted. You have a minority taking up the majority of space in prison. You have towns labelled as having high black population which is synonymous with high crime and poverty. Racism exists for a reason. Since when do objective statistics constitute racism? Didn't say the statistics were racist. I said there is an objective reason why racism is well entrenched in American culture. You've got your causality reversed. Institutional racism produces those outcomes (which individual racists may incorrectly use to justify their beliefs, but I don't think you're talking about individuals when you talk about "racism...in American culture."
I don't think racism has ever been about hating on individuals, in my experience it is isn't even directed at the race itself but more the culture associated with that race.
On July 13 2013 13:00 Plansix wrote:Show nested quote +On July 13 2013 11:32 zbedlam wrote:On July 13 2013 11:26 DeepElemBlues wrote:On July 13 2013 10:00 GreenHorizons wrote:On July 13 2013 09:43 ThreeAcross wrote:On July 13 2013 09:38 GreenHorizons wrote:On July 13 2013 08:49 TheRealArtemis wrote:On July 13 2013 08:25 Ph4ZeD wrote:
Nigger gets shot, who cares? We need to put them in their place.
User was banned for this post. Wow..I can say some offensive shit from time to time, but this guy didnt even bother to masquerade it lol. -_- I have the feeling that there will be a verdict tomorrow. Im sure that the majority of them feel the same, but want to go over the details to persuade the rest. The banned post's writer reflects that part of the United States a few of us have referred to, where seemingly decent normal individuals actually are complete racist bigots to an obscene degree and had they not just come out and just said it you would of never known. How do you know he is from the States? You do see his location says UK right? Not saying he's from the states just that type of person is out there( and it would surprise you who they are) or more accurately poster where you have hundreds of posts with little to no posts that would come anywhere close to that level of racism and bigotry. Then Bam! Says something showing him as currently irredeemably racist or so childish and petty I would say something so offensive "for the lol's" Just a random example of how you never really know what kind of things someone could be thinking before they say or do something. Not to mention helps you understand what kind of person Trayvon likely thought was following him. Reflects more on you than on the United States that you would make such a statement... The religious belief that America in particular and Western society in general is chock full of secret and/or unconscious racism bubbling just under the surface is a matter of faith and as such unfortunately is not up for fact-based debate. You find someone who believes it and it is very unlikely that any amount of evidence will change that dogma. And it results in silly posts like that quoted. You have a minority taking up the majority of space in prison. You have towns labelled as having high black population which is synonymous with high crime and poverty. Racism exists for a reason. Are you saying they bring the racism on themselves? Could you please explain your theory further?
Not familiar enough with US culture and history to say whether or not they brought it upon themselves. All I am saying is there is a direct correlation between race and criminal activity in the US.
Over here we have plenty of blacks too, however they have not formed their own subculture and are not known for being violent with a poor upbringing, as such there is little to no racism leveled at them.
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On July 13 2013 12:55 docvoc wrote:
Back to the trial: What is the verdict going to look like? It seems like the defense is really strong right now. I'd be hard pressed to convict Zimmerman on most of the counts (I don't know all of them, unfortunately so I can't say he would be fully acquitted) especially the large ones. Recently I've been seeing a lot of "black-out" threat-esque twitter and facebook posts about how if Trayvonn doesn't get "justice," they will riot; any thoughts?
There is only one charge, Murder 2. There is one additional instruction for manslaughter which they can find him guilty of if he's not guilty of murder 2. Other than that, it's not guilty. Verdict has to be unanimous either way, or it's a hung jury.
Having said that, I'm trying to understand how we have two jurors, one of which is married to an attorney, the other is the mother of an attorney. How could these two have made it without knowing much about the case ? I can't imagine there can be a unanimous verdict of guilty on either. I would imagine these 2 jurors would be well aware of the manslaughter mandatory minimums from their family before entering sequester, whether they admit it or not.
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On July 13 2013 13:28 zbedlam wrote:
I don't think racism has ever been about hating on individuals, in my experience it is isn't even directed at the race itself but more the culture associated with that race.
Ding ding ding. I think we have a winner, Alex...
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