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Originally Posted by Warren Kiefer
It disturbs me that the media went into a feeding frenzy over the Trayvon Martin killing. The media, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson screamed loud and clear for weeks. Where is the meda and these two men now that there has been no less than three brutal and unwarranted killings of innocent people in just one week.
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I will try, and likely fail, to help with understanding why the black community was and still is outraged by the Martin killing. Martin was followed because he was black, he was profiled by a man who is not apparently punk or a crazy and thus seems representative of the majority culture. This representative of the majority culture made assumptions about Martin based only on his age and color, not on his behavior or demeanor. As a result Martin was killed. Walking while black. And Revs. Jackson and Sharpton got involved because there was no arrest. Everyone should note that the issue was the lack of an arrest, of the opportunity for a jury trial and a full airing of the events within the limits of our system. While many pundits on the pro-Zimmerman side predicted riots, there were none. The anger was in large part about the lack of any action by the majority culture (white) against the killing of a teenager who did nothing other than have black skin, wear a hoodie, and get followed by a cop wannabe. That is how it looked to a black person. Who started and who was winning any fistfight was not the issue. There would have been no stalking and no fight if Travon had been white.
The case in Oklahoma is of the killing of a white young adult by people we all agree are delinquents and not representative of any culture and will not be championed by anyone. There was an immediate arrest in the case and these suspects will get their opportunity for a full and fair trial.
Lastly, I'm confused by your statement that there have been no less than 3 murders of innocent people in the last week. In the last week there have certainly been hundreds of murders in this country. The fact that they are categorized as murders means the victims were "innocent" in the event which resulted in their death. The media has not apparently gone into a frenzy about the great majority of these murders, only those where a white person was killed by people some of whom were non-whites. Why is that? Why are we only hearing about white victims of senseless killings? Who is whipping up the frenzy on these cases and why?