Good post...and have to admit that our President is in an unenviable position, one in which he put himself in.

He spoke and got involved before any investigation was complete. He spoke at that time in words that reinforced and put emphasis on the race aspect. Remember this put enormous pressure on everyone for a rush to judgement.

He has appointed an Attorney General who, as of yet, has not even acknowledged the FBI findings on race, or the comments from the jurors (ALL of them, not just the one 'famous" for her interview) on the lack of race in the decision, and who simply in the past few days has been speaking to black groups about injustice, and to my knowledge has never uttered Zimmermans name.

His ex Secy of State has made remarks to black groups stating shock at the verdict and spoke of Martin as if he was a saint.

Today, the Martin family appealed to the POTUS to go over this with a fine tooth comb as the DOJ for the second or third time try to find something racial.

The White House says he will not be involved, and I will accept that for now, but he, himself, has put himself into a situation that is not very comfortable.

I apologize for not knowing this was old news - I can assure you I would not have posted if that were the case. It was brought to my attention this am and that is why I shared it; however, it disturbs me just the same if they said it yesterday or in 2010. And if that is the case why were they not prosecuted for putting a bounty out on a human being that is innocent until proven guilty. Oh that right - Eric Holder is the friend.

Mistakes happen but most do not admit them when they make them and kudos to you for dong that.

To add to this post......the demonstration where this bounty was placed, was not a small isolated thing.

Al Sharpton was right there and there are videos of him standing next to a fellow handing out the fliers with the bounty information.

As another poster pointed out, the taxpayers payed for the security for this event...the DOJ spent quite a bit of money that day..not sure how that plays or how they become security for an event.

The lemmings can pooh-pooh and claim all they want that it was an old threat by the black panther head THUG. And the lemmings can claim all they want that the New Black Panther Party has disavowed any relationship to this poisonous, murder-craving thug.

BUT, the website of the New Black Panther Party is right now prodding all its members to "PACK the court" today while the thug is in court on gun charges in NY (see press release quoted below, and the link).

They fully support this thug and his murderous, racist talk afoot thumping a billy club:

SHOW SUPPORT AND PACK THE COURT 7/18 FOR KING SAMIR SHABAZZ
News Releases

For Immediate Release:
Contact: Chawn S. Kweli 502-758-7785
When: July 18, 2013
Time: 8:30am est.
Where: Manhattan Supreme Court
111 Centre St. Court Part 61

NEW YORK – King Samir Shabazz, National Field Marshal of the New Black Panther Party for Self Defense will appear in court on Thursday, 7/18/2013 under the name Maruse Heath. The time will be 8:30 a.m. sharp. All area New Black Panthers and supporters PACK THE COURT for King Samir Shabazz.
New Black Panther Party News

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POSTED: June 27, 2013
KING SAMIR SHABAZZ says black people should create militias to exterminate whites, skin them alive, pour acid on them, sic pit bulls on them, bust their heads with rocks and even raid nurseries to "kill everything white in sight."

"I would love nothing more than to come home with a cracker's head in my book bag," Shabazz, a Philly street preacher and national field marshal for the New Black Panther Party, said on a black-power radio show.

Such sentiment hasn't gotten him arrested.

But allegedly carrying a gun did.

Shabazz, 41, whose real name is Maruse Heath, is best known for sparking a federal probe for voter intimidation after he brought a billy club to a North Philly polling place on Election Day 2008.

But on Thursday night, police in New York say they spotted him wearing a bulletproof vest in Harlem, stopped him and found him carrying a loaded, unlicensed handgun. He was jailed on $75,000 bail on charges of illegal gun possession and the illegal wearing of body armor.

Infamous member of New Black Panthers arrested in New York - Philly.com

Some groups won't see the logic of this and want to blame everything on President Obama. They just can't accept the fact that he won 2 elections and is doing a good job. And they appear to be out in force on TOTV. I'm going to be signing off for awhile. When they got rid of the political forum, I thought it would be fun to get back on TOTV. But with all the political threads lately, the fun is gone. When someone says it is a bad thing to have a black President, and people don't immediately jump all over a racist remark like that, I know I need to find another place to converse. It isn't on TOTV.

I totally accept that he won two elections, but thought from the beginning that it was the end of life as I knew it. I respect the decision of the majority, and if the majority wants an end to the country I grew up in, so be it. Frankly, I'm too old to care.

What I do find offensive is to repeatedly refer to the POTUS as "the black President". He is THE President.

"When someone says it is a bad thing to have a black President, and people don't immediately jump all over a racist remark like that, I know I need to find another place to converse."

Who said it, and where is it, that somebody here said it is a bad thing to have a black president???

And so WHAT if somebody said that and nobody jumped on it? This thread has many deletions, and so maybe whatever was said got deleted by the moderator before it could be "jumped on as a racist remark"!!

I don't understand what you mean when you say that "from the beginning that it was the end of life as I knew it." An end to the country that you grew up in? You are right about one thing. You are too old to have any innovative ideas.

Anyone else remember Yankel Rosenbaum?

Crown Heights riot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A post MEANT to inflame. There is no response that is appropriate

I for one wish you would stay. America's Friendliest Hometown wasn't feeling too friendly to me lately!


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Yes, I do remember it and sadly it seems like here we go again, that's why I posted the Dennis Prager column (that he wrote today on his website),earlier this morning about this horrible event in Brooklyn.

My last post is referring to this post ... this problem keeps going on & on & on...

And Paula Dean said what ?

I don't think the thread should be shut down. The whole forum is here so that people can find out more about life in TV. There is a giant myriad of opinions here in TV, contrary to what many who've never even been here think.

I think it's a good thing if people can read and see that TV is not what it's often accused of being: "Nothing but old, white, rich, R's". That is far from fact or reality and the discussions on this board are evidence of it.

This thread and other recent ones like the gay marriage one show a huge variety in opinions and in fact, some gay/lesbian posters said they liked reading that there are plenty of people posting both sides of the issue here, and it made them have a lot fewer reservations/hesitations about moving here.

That is a good thing, I think. These topics can be discussed with a balance of differing opinions, without mentioning the dang politicians and parties whose goal is to divide us.

And if people don't want to read this thread or others, they have the freedom to choose not to read it. And they also have the freedom to block certain posters' writings from their view here.

if true ... seems like such a small amount.

The news media, at least the LSM, wanted this to be racial. CNN called George Zimmerman a White Hispanic. Well his mother looked White and his father from Central America. That, in the words of Dr. Benjamin Carson on Fox and Friends would be like calling President Obama a White African American, (I would have said a White Black, since there are many White Africans in Southern Africa).
Saw pictures of Zimmerman's Great Grand Mother, she was Black African American. This was not racial.

This was a tragedy all around, Travon Martin Dead and George Zimmerman will live with his guilty conscience, always wondering how it could have turned out better. No one happy.

fyi; George Zimmerman's mother is from Peru, his father is Caucasian. So in reality he is 1/2 white or Caucasian and 1/2 Peruvian

Ernie Els, the pro golfer, is an African.

This is the equivalent of the KKK offering a bounty for O J Simpson after his trial. I seriously doubt that the media and police departments would ignore that.

This is basically a lynch mob by another name

i continue to fail to understand why when folks who find a thread they don't like, continue to read it and then blame it for making them leave totv.

Well, since TV is so diverse, I'd love to see some postings from people who are NOT "old, white R's." (I agree that many are not rich). Let's hear from you, younger minority non-R's who live in TV!

Why not share YOUR opinion on issues ?

As was previously posted, this supposedly happened 15 months ago, March 2012. Apparently, no one ever collected since Zimmerman is still alive. The OP apologized for posting something so outdated.

No, it was a conservative web site trying to inflame people.

New Black Panthers' $10,000 Zimmerman Bounty Was from Last Year; Viral Report Uses it as Source

I really wish that conservative organization would stop doing stuff like this. It makes all conservatives look bad and puts a dent in our credibilty.

STUPID! STUPID! STUPID!

I'm a "non-R", doesn't mean that I endorse delinquents, Sharpton and mob violence.

Not sure why Quirky just does not offer her opinion on whatever issues. Making sweeping generalizations as she has been doing is just trying to incite and make it about political parties, which it isn't or should be.

The only inserts of political partisan are her posts and a few others who offer no opinion,just drive by inciteful comments.

Excellent post.

The OP put it on the forum because he did not do any checking before posting. Wintston is absolutely right in saying it does make the conservatives look ignorant by inflaming with an outdated film clip.