This case has been sensationalized to fit the narrative of "white man shoots innocent black man because he's racist". Nevermind the fact that Zimmerman is hispanic, or that Trayvon Martin initiated a physical confrontation with him. This story is media-driven to promote outrage in the black community. It's as simple as that.
The race baiters in the black community and the media jumped on this story from the beginning. It's an absolute disgrace that charlatans like Al Sharpton continue to put in for this kind of nonsense, while remaining absolutely silent about the fact that black men continue to murder each other in the streets by the thousands.
Where is the popular black outrage over black-on-black crime? Why don't black people care if a black person is killed by another black? It happens every day in cities like Detroit, Chicago and New Orleans. Why isn't Al Sharpton marching in the streets?
The reason is that it doesn't fit the narrative of "racism" if a black man kills another black man. It's simple butchery, and blacks would rather turn their heads than confront the fact that a minority of their young men are behaving like out of control savages. The fact that the black community cannot bring itself to confront and condemn the violence perpetrated by young, black men does more to promote racial hatred and animus against blacks than anything whites could do.
Furthermore, there is the issue of black-on-white crime. Blacks routinely victimize whites, but race is never considered an issue, and these stories are routinely buried in the press, even when they are outrageous and shocking. Consider:
http://www.northescambia.com/2013/04/sta...with-video
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Deputies say an autopsy shows McCormick was hit 40 times with a hammer, lead pipe and crow bar. She was still alive when her bed sheets were set on fire, according to the State Fire Marshal’s Office. They were caught on video (see below) headed to and away from the area of the apartment.
Williams reportedly told investigators that he hated white people, and that was a partial reason for the crime.
Try to imagine the races were reversed, here, and a group of white men had tortured a black woman and set her on fire, then explicitly told investigators it was because she was black. There would be wall-to-wall national media coverage for weeks.
Or anyone remember this case?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_...her_Newsom
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According to the testimony of the Knox County Acting Medical Examiner Dr. Darinka Mileusnic-Polchan at the subsequent trial of Eric Boyd, Newsom was repeatedly sodomized with an object and then blindfolded, gagged, arms and feet bound and his head covered. Barefoot, he was dragged outside the house to a set of nearby railroad tracks. He was sexually mutilated, shot in the back of his head, neck and back and his body was then set on fire.
According to the testimony of the medical examiner, Channon's death came after hours of torture, having suffered injuries to her vagina, anus and mouth. She was raped with an unidentified object and beaten in the head. It was also reported that her body was scrubbed with bleach which was also poured down her throat, in an attempt by her attackers to remove DNA evidence, while Channon was still alive. She was then bound with curtains and strips of bedding, her face covered with a bin liner and her body stashed within five large bin bags, before being placed inside a residential waste disposal unit and covered with sheets. The medical examiner said there was evidence that Channon slowly suffocated to death.
Or how about this case, when two black teenagers shot a white baby in the face right in front of its mother, for no apparent reason?
http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/22/us/georgia-baby-killed
Again, imagine the media outrage if the races were reversed.
Here's a story about a black man beating a white 6 year old to death because he said the kid was "racist". You can't even make this up:
The reality is that blacks victimize whites and other blacks far, far more often than whites victimize blacks. However, there is a deliberate effort by the media to downplay the amount of crime committed by blacks:
http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/top-s...-coverage/
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When initial reports about a gang rape in Cleveland, Texas, became public earlier this month, there was hardly any mention of the victim’s or suspects’ race — mainly because reporters covering the story didn’t think it was relevant.
The creator of the show "COPS" admits flat out that he artificially minimizes the number of black criminals he features on his program in order not to "contribute to negative stereotypes".
Blacks have jumped all over the Zimmerman/Martin case for one simple reason: it's extremely rare for a white/hispanic person to kill an innocent black person in cold blood. This is about as close as they can get: a "white hispanic" guy playing cop confronts a black wannabe-gangster who starts a fight with him and ends up getting shot. Both of them idiots. But suddenly it's a story about race? It's ridiculous.
If blacks want to do something about racism, the best thing they can do is address the problem of delinquency among young, black males, because they are the ones committing the violent crimes that incite racial animus against all blacks in general.