03-28-2012, 11:19 AM
GOOD QUESTION...WHERE WAS SHARPTON ET AL HERE when 4 blacks were gunned down in the street, including a baby? and a WRONG verdict came down. :
http://mockforums.net/thread-4267.html
Boston Herald
A tragedy exploited
By Michael Graham
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
We should have known the minute we saw Al Sharpton.
As soon as this opportunistic, race-baiting buffoon (or as he’s known by his friends at MSNBC, “respected journalist”) showed up in Sanford, Fla., to whip up fear and hate, all of America should have stopped right then and reconsidered our rush to judgment.
A week ago, the story of Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman was the story of an innocent black kid targeted, stalked and executed by a trigger-happy white man for no reason other than hate.
A week ago, George Zimmerman was the evil offspring of Jim Crow and Barney Fife — an overzealous cop-wannabe with an anti-black attitude.
Today we know that Zimmerman is, in fact, Hispanic. That he’s a registered Democrat. That he had not, as was widely reported, called 911 some 46 times in the previous year. (Zimmerman made 46 such calls since 2004).
More important, we have more facts about what happened that night: physical evidence (grass stains, blood and bruises) and eyewitness testimony tending to corroborate Zimmerman’s claim that Martin was assaulting him when Zimmerman fired in self-defense.
Does this mean Zimmerman is innocent? Does it mean Martin deserved to die?
Of course not.
What the facts today — as opposed to the assumptions of a week ago — do prove is that claims that this case is part of some “USofKKKA” conspiracy were always an opportunistic, hate-inspiring lie.
But given the sources — Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, the New Black Panther Party and the mainstream media — why should we be surprised?
Apparently we’ve learned nothing from the Tawana Brawley or Duke lacrosse cases. Self-serving race-activists tell their tales and the American media follow blindly along.
MORE OF OP-ED HERE:
http://news.bostonherald.com/news/opinio...1061120476
http://mockforums.net/thread-4267.html
Boston Herald
A tragedy exploited
By Michael Graham
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
We should have known the minute we saw Al Sharpton.
As soon as this opportunistic, race-baiting buffoon (or as he’s known by his friends at MSNBC, “respected journalist”) showed up in Sanford, Fla., to whip up fear and hate, all of America should have stopped right then and reconsidered our rush to judgment.
A week ago, the story of Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman was the story of an innocent black kid targeted, stalked and executed by a trigger-happy white man for no reason other than hate.
A week ago, George Zimmerman was the evil offspring of Jim Crow and Barney Fife — an overzealous cop-wannabe with an anti-black attitude.
Today we know that Zimmerman is, in fact, Hispanic. That he’s a registered Democrat. That he had not, as was widely reported, called 911 some 46 times in the previous year. (Zimmerman made 46 such calls since 2004).
More important, we have more facts about what happened that night: physical evidence (grass stains, blood and bruises) and eyewitness testimony tending to corroborate Zimmerman’s claim that Martin was assaulting him when Zimmerman fired in self-defense.
Does this mean Zimmerman is innocent? Does it mean Martin deserved to die?
Of course not.
What the facts today — as opposed to the assumptions of a week ago — do prove is that claims that this case is part of some “USofKKKA” conspiracy were always an opportunistic, hate-inspiring lie.
But given the sources — Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, the New Black Panther Party and the mainstream media — why should we be surprised?
Apparently we’ve learned nothing from the Tawana Brawley or Duke lacrosse cases. Self-serving race-activists tell their tales and the American media follow blindly along.
MORE OF OP-ED HERE:
http://news.bostonherald.com/news/opinio...1061120476