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madashelltoo

(1,694 posts)
Mon Feb 17, 2014, 06:01 PM Feb 2014

Both Dunn and Zimmerman initiated

contact with Martin and Davis. Both young men were doing what teenagers in America do. They were minding their own business. Their presence didn't seem to distract anyone from what they were doing except Dunn and Zimmerman, whose only issues were, "Why the hell are these 'black boys' occupying the same space I am? Who gave them permission to breathe the same air I am? How dare they act as if they belong here?"

Martin and Davis's existence was so distracting to Zimmerman and Dunn that they could not resist initiating a confrontation with them. After all, they both had guns to protect themselves "when" the black boys did not respond with the proper respect for their obvious betters. Keeping blacks in their place was a position relegated to Dunn and Zimmerman by the Potato God no one hears but them. We understand this because the Son of Sam had a dog who told him to kill people who were minding their business too.

Well, Mr. Zimmerman (I am homeless, unemployed, broke and afraid) and Mr. Dunn (I can't believe I am in prison for shooting at three black boys who simply existed and not for killing an imaginary hostile black boy), welcome to what has been a large part of the African American experience. Hell might have been a figment of your imagination before, but. . . now it's your reality.

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Both Dunn and Zimmerman initiated (Original Post) madashelltoo Feb 2014 OP
maybe gun humpers will rethink their paranoia Skittles Feb 2014 #1
that is what I don't understand KT2000 Feb 2014 #2
they have Zimmeranda Rights ... napkinz Feb 2014 #3
a sad "lesson" ... napkinz Feb 2014 #4
This response would make their day. madashelltoo Feb 2014 #5
fear ... napkinz Feb 2014 #6

KT2000

(20,568 posts)
2. that is what I don't understand
Mon Feb 17, 2014, 07:26 PM
Feb 2014

these killers were the ones who initiated confrontation but that seem to not count for anything in the trials. Why not? This is just a prescription for more murders.

madashelltoo

(1,694 posts)
5. This response would make their day.
Mon Feb 17, 2014, 07:58 PM
Feb 2014

Black fear would be their sleeping pill every night. Crazies don't understand there are universal repercussions. Reap what you sow. What goes around comes around. And so on.

napkinz

(17,199 posts)
6. fear ...
Tue Feb 18, 2014, 04:28 PM
Feb 2014

From slavery to Jim Crow to SYG

Instilling fear is their goal. It's their "prime directive."

Voter suppression. Intimidation. Violence.

The war of oppression continues.



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