I've always said that Trayvon Martin's death was a tragedy. It was a tragedy that he lost his life during his rebellious and troubled teenage years in the midst of stupid and immature behavior. And just like the POTUS, I could also say that many years before now I could have been Trayvon. I was an immature, rebellious teenager. I used to sneak out of my parent's house to meet up with a bunch of hoodlums I ran around with. I was with them when they held up a motel in an armed robbery. I was with them when they played "chicken" on a busy highway. I was with them when we were barely missed by less than an inch when racing a freight train over a crossing. But I was luckier than TM. I lived over those stupid stunts to grow more mature and become a responsible adult.

So although I feel Trayvon's death is a tragedy, I also feel George's pridicament has been more of a tragedy since everything's been brought down upon him through no fault of his own. He is a responsible adult and acted responsibly. Yet he's been damaged nonetheless.

I guess this is where I have a problem with compassion for Traymom and Traydad. They are continuing their attacks on the Zimmermans, who are totally innocent, good, kind, people. As long as they do that, I can't feel for them at all.

And, I probably don't have enough compassion for Trayvon's death because I have no doubt he would have killed George if he could have. On top of that, if he had lived, I believe he would have gone on to maim or kill someone else eventually. Everything his "parents" are doing is encouraging other young black people to do what he did.

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Ben Crump........Yawn.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ ... story.html

The comments are interesting.

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Um, you know, er, um, but, um, racism!!!

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Good one! And, when are they going to start working on themselves killing themselves??? HUH????

COTTO: How George Zimmerman became a public enemy

OCALA, Fla., August 15, 2013 — Angela Corey, Benjamin Crump, Al Sharpton, Pam Bondi, and Rick Scott all played pivotal roles in building the now-infamous criminal case against George Zimmerman. Each had his or her own reasons for doing so. To say that there is more than meets the eye is a colossal understatement.

“The Trayvon Martin story is a case study in how, even in the modern day, an advanced industrialised democracy can completely lose its senses; and how difficult it is for it to then recover them,” writes James Myburgh of South Africa’s politicsweb.

“In this particular matter a whole society seemingly fixed its mind on the one object of having George Zimmerman arrested, convicted and sent to jail for life, in reckless disregard of the evidence and the law,” he writes. “The mainstream media, so-called civil rights organisations, the Democrat President of the US, the U.S. Attorney General, the Republican Governor of Florida and his Attorney General, and State Attorney Angela Corey all combined forces in an effort to destroy a single, isolated individual.”

If it weren’t for the establishment media, though, just how much would everyone else have been able to get away with?

Shortly after Zimmerman shot Martin in early 2012, NBC News ran a deceptively edited audiotape of Zimmerman’s 911 call. With NBC’s edits, Zimmerman seemed to racially profile Martin.

Because of this, Zimmerman filed a lawsuit against NBC. The suit was placed on the back burner during his trial. Now, it is moving forward at full speed.

“I think what NBC did was quite damaging and I think that, at the time, the damage they did to Goerge’s reputation ... is still not undone,” says Robert Zimmerman, George’s younger brother and de facto public spokesman. “As far as I know, Mr. Beasley, co-counsel in the lawsuit, has gone on the record saying he intends to proceed as soon as possible.

“Mr. O’Mara, co-counsel on the same lawsuit, has suggested that this might not be the only lawsuit or civil action that George pursues, and I think that suing the media is definitely risky, but there are some lines that should not be crossed and portraying someone as a racist — deliberately and frequently as the suit alleges — is wildly inappropriate.”

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