“A judge Tuesday refused to delay the June 10 trial of George Zimmerman, charged with second-degree murder in the February 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin,” usatoday.com reports. More to the point, “Circuit Judge Debra Nelson, at a hearing on motions ahead of the trial, also ruled that lawyers can’t mention Trayvon’s school records, past fights, marijuana use, ownership of gold teeth, or any photos or text messages found on the teen’s phone.” The toxicology report showing Martin had smoked dope on the night in question? Also out. That said . . .
Nelson said she reserves the right to change the ruling during the trial if lawyers open the door to such issues. However, she said that she can’t imagine that any of these issues would be relevant.
In other words, if the Prosecution starts delving into George Zimmerman’s past, Martin’s history of dope smoking, gun handling, street fighting and school skipping are fair game.
How this behavior is not relevant—given that identifying the person who threw the first punch is a critical consideration for the jury—is above my pay grade. You might say that Judge Nelson is gaming the trial to assure a particular outcome but I couldn’t possibly comment.
She also also granted the following motions:
• State motions to prohibit witnesses from offering their opinions about Zimmerman’s guilt, the proper punishment he should receive for his actions, and from telling the jury to disregard the law.
• A state motion to compel George Zimmerman’s wife, Shellie Zimmerman, to testify at a deposition, but Nelson said Shellie can take the Fifth and prosecutors will have to submit their questions in writing to the court and Nelson will decide if Shellie has to answer those specific questions.
• A motion to keep George Zimmerman from testifying about his lack of prior felony convictions.
• A defense motion to keep the identities of potential and actual jury members anonymous. Potential jurors will be referred to by numbers. Nelson said other issues will be dealt with once jury selection is underway.
At a press conference, the Martin family lawyers pronounced themselves satisfied with today’s rulings, saying that the images and text aren’t evidence. The trial’s due to start June 10. Florida just got a little hotter.
Gosh…this is a tough one. If this was your brother, would you take his guns and hang onto them for safe-keeping? I have a brother who has some depression and Bi-polar stuff going on and he self medicates as he has no insurance. He had his guns a few years ago before this stuff happened. These guns are in my safe now, not under his bed….
I do understand the issue here as the Gov takes and takes and soon they will be seizing guns from people with Diabetes or High Blood Pressure. They would make it so very few could obtain and and hold onto to those guns. How long will it be before my Electronic Medical Record, WA State Drivers License info, and my Prescription service all combine records?
Makes me wonder if he was going to “share” that .38 at the range, or use it for some other perfectly legal purpose.
This decision was a given. They’re running scared down there; that race riots will break out in absence of a guilty verdict. The rest, have already made up their minds anyway.
First of all, any person who regularly carries practice more than even the above average cop. We are both more familiar with our weapons and more capable when using them than most state and local LEOs.
Second, a LEO is much more likely to find himself in an unknown situation where he has to sort out the good guys from the bad guys in a very dynamic environment. Add that to the fact that the LEO is probably a lousy shot and you have recipe for the wrong guy or gal catching a bullet. By virtue of being the target of violence we kind of have a better idea about who the bad guy is than the late arriving police.
Third, we are accountable. If we shoot nine innocent bystanders we go to jail even if we stopped a bad guy. The police get a couple weeks of desk duty and then a medal for their efforts. Because of this we are more likely to follow rule #3 — know your target and what’s beyond it than the police.
Here is a challenge to gun grabbing journalists. Off the top of your head tell me all the citizen DGUs that resulted in the wrong guy being shot during the past twelve months. I can name you at least three where the cops got it wrong — the Empire State Building shooting, the two newspaper ladies in LA and the Hofstra incident.
If it comes to it, this will be Zimmerman’s “Get out of jail free” card. The appellate trial should last about 5 minutes before any guilty verdict is overturned.
Let the riots begin!
My LGS had ammo today.
I’m ready.
Zimmerman’s attorneys have not used his get out of jail free card yet, for some reason. Florida has a “Stand Your Ground” hearing process, which his attorneys have never requested. I suspect a long, nationally televised trial is more lucrative in fame and future earnings.
Not terribly surprised by this. Frankly I don’t understand why such a big deal is being made about the pot use or gold teeth as neither is directly associated with fighting (if he’d been drunk at the time of the incident, on the other hand…). Ibid to trash talking and even the gun picture; there’s no real context there.
The only thing that really applies here is Trayvon’s apparent history of fighting, but there’s no official record (no charges or police incidents), so it would be hard to what would almost certainly be considered hearsay as evidence.
He was in the neighborhood that night because he had been sent to stay with his father after being suspended from school for assaulting a bus driver. There was also the incident where a school janitor caught him in the building after everyone had left with a bag of assorted jewelry he couldn’t account for. The lawyers tried to have his school records sealed last year, but the horse had already left the barn there.
(My point being: yes, there are official records; not just hearsay.)
He was suspended from school for having traces of marijuana and a screwdriver in his backpack. (Back in the 1980’s I was called to school because my son had a screwdriver in his pack. He had a scout meeting after school, but the school district was extremely strict and it looks like that has spread to other parts of the country.)
Don’t you think that if he had punched a bus driver, he would have some kind of juvenile record? Or don’t bus riders and drivers notice anything these days?
Guys, this is not my opinion, it’s a matter of fact. Trayvon Martin did not have a criminal record, and it seems that even if he had, it would be standard operating procedure on the judges part to not allow the criminal history of a homicide victim as evidence in a self defense trial.
Again, this is not my opinion, this is a statement of fact.
My CC class was taught by a former city police officer of 20 years who now works for the County Sheriff’s Department. He told our class that during his interview with the County they asked him about his own “black scary” gun collection and how would he behave if event ABC occurred. The interviewers actually knew (without asking) the make and model of guns that he had purchased 28 years earlier! When he called them out on it they became evasive.
Until you’re SURE otherwise, assume it’s 100%.
When this first went down, I was firmly in the “string up Zimmerman” camp. Pictures of a 12 year old boy, recordings of Zimmerman apparently saying slurs, what sounded to me like a 12 year old crying for help in one of those recording, and an out of work self appointed neighborhood watch captain apparently out for blood. He never looked caucasion to me, it seemed pretty obvious he was a mix, being one myself.
Seeing all the real facts come to life, we have a 6 ft 3″ tall fully grown man and what looks like a 5’8″ man who somehow ended up on the ground fighting. None of the racial stuff was true, the media made it up. Zimmerman broke off his pursuit and was walking back to his car. Treyvon was a good 7 inches taller than Zimmerman. I honestly have no clue who the heck was crying in the recording, but I’m fairly sure Treyvon’s voice cracked long ago.
Did Martin have any scratches on him other than the gunshot wound? It seems like at no time did Zimmerman ever have the upper hand in the struggle, and he certainly didn’t draw on Treyvon until he was on the ground. It seriously looks to me that Martin attacked Zimmerman while he was returning to his car. Hopefully some actual truth comes out in the trial and this isn’t just a kangaroo court to a lynching.
“Did Martin have any scratches on him other than the gunshot wound?”
He had a small scratch on the knuckles of his right hand, and an abrasion on the first ring-finger joint of his left.
Offensive wounds certainly will not help the deceased Skittle munchers case any.
Does anyone else feel like this is all going to boil to a head?
All women are not solipsists. They all shop for shoes, though.
If prison inmates can build a zip gun from stuff they find lying around, it can’t be that difficult.
In CA. Nuff said
no, this is in Kittitias County, Washington
Read an article on Cracked last week on why the Liberator is nothing to panic about. I had hopes it might actually point out that zip guns and other homemade boomsticks have been around longer than Cracked (including the defunct magazine), but no. It was full of the same ignorant statist garbage. No knowledge of what it is, what it represents, or why it’s important. The worst part? The asseration by the (Cracked article’s) author that the Liberator is illegal to have without doing federal paperwork. Like you have to do a background check on yourself.
On Topic: great article, Ralph. Nice to have a little perpective on how easy it is to hand make a gun.
Oh man, just read that article. Lots of mechanical ignorance and typical statist boot-licking comments. I guess I shouldn’t expect too much hard-hitting factual information from what’s basically a college humor site – but they sure do have solid opinions about it.
This is pretty much bread and butter criminal law practice. This kind of stuff is called character evidence, and while character evidence that a defendant wants to raise to bolster his own defense may be admissible, evidence against a victim’s character is usually not – http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/fre/rule_404.
It makes sense if you think about it. Just because someone is an asshole, racist, or gay does not mean that you are allowed to kill them. I’m not making any judgment or comments about the merits of the prosecution’s case in this story. I’m just saying that the reason that character evidence of the victim is inadmissible in court is that it is completely irrelevant as to whether or not the death of the victim was legally justifiable in a particular instance.
This looks like a “by the book” ruling. It is “fair” in the sense that the jury will be asked to judge Zimmerman’s specific actions at that point. That this is a self defense vs second degree murder trail it would seem like the judge is trying to stack the deck in the prosecution favor. Trayvon Martin’s past and his drug use get to the heart of motivatioin. Martin was a minute or two from the safety of his father’s residence. Why did he choose to return to confront Zimmerman when he could have made it home? Seems like a manhood issue by a person whose judgement was compromised by recent drug use. Would Trayvon the scholar headed for Harvard turned back to confront Zimmerman? Highly unlikely. Travyon the gangbanger who saw himself as a tough guy wannabe MMA fighter? Most certainly. It seems reasonable to me that Martin’s potential state of mind would be relevant to the case. The judge’s ruling would seem to be more supportable in a manslaughter trial than one for second degree murder.
Aside to Ralph: You said in previous thread that tough luck Martin was unarmed. What if he was black belt or trained MMA fighter. Would you still consider him unarmed?
The death blow to the prosecution’s case are the intake photos of Zimmerman that show his injuries, and the testimony of the witness that places Martin pummeling Zimmerman from the top. I don’t see how a jury will convict Zimmerman of 2nd degree with that kind of corroborating evidence to his side of the story.
agreed. Unless they can show Martin was breaking the law in some way by his prior actions, those are pretty solid for a case of self defence.
It shouldn’t matter what TM’s background was. The fact is he, a 6’3″ athletic 17 year old, was beating an older man into the pavement and there was significant bodily risk to GZ. He acted in self-preservation, case closed.
I don’t care if TM had a spotless record up until that night (and from the sounds of it, he didn’t. Not even close). That single assault was enough to warrant self-defense, which unfortunately for TM resulted in lethal self-defense.
The end.
GZ was an older man? Holy crap! Are you kidding me? He was 28.
That’s like saying that Martin was a child because he was 17.
Do you remember the whammo air blaster? It was a compressed air bazooka with a built in pump that when you fired it made a loud booming noise. It had a smoothbore barrel to expel the pressurized air and that barrel fit a variety of projectiles quite well.
The toys we had as kids were seriously capable of doing damage with little to no mods. I’ve never used tannerite but we could go into any five and dime and buy explosive peel and stick caps by the sheet. These rarely got used for cap guns.
After hearing the story of David and Goliath in sunday school we boys cut up a bunch of bike inner tubes and made slings. Fun times explaining the rash of black eyes and bloody noses and welts and bruises to the grups. But honestly, we didn’t have too much explaining to do. In those days the parents expected boys to be a little rough around the edges.
Bullsh!t
I have no worries about printed guns. My fear is printed food. When they start printing the things we eat and feeding them to our children, then i feel we will have a few problems. But the Statists will rejoice in the new found ability to feed the masses with food like products.
This approach worked really well for me, but with one variation. Rather than sandpaper, I used 000 steel wool. Vastly smoother trigger pull.
+1 on the William Wallace comment. That trigger pin is very, very loose. Almost lost it more than once. Spares now on order.
Here in NJ, a pistol permit is required to purchase. A copy of the permit is kept by the state police and by the local PD.
I don’t know if the info is computerized, but I would say it probably is.
-ted
While I can agree that past use is irrelevant to the incident,
how is a positive test for a mind/behavior altering drug in TM
inadmissible?
When confronted with lethal attack you have 3 choices, attempt to flee, stand and fight, or beg for mercy. There has never been a fourth choice, nor will there ever be. Mr. Kelly seems to favor the latter. I guess if he feels more comfortable begging a murderous felon for mercy than defending himself and his family that is his prerogative.
This charming reflection upon the long-ago engineering pleasures of youth elicited only melancholy in me. How did we go from a can-do society to a can-do-a-few-rivals society. True, by ‘we’ I mean ‘them.’ Printing guns conjures in the minds of officialdom images of a future riotous anarchy. These worries are just the colorful distractions of minds in denial, which fail to see that by legitimizing the ethos of the rapper and the mau mau preachers of hate and entitlement one can print actual murderers, using much less ingenuity and to more horrific effect.
Eisendrath seems like it should be a location in Middle Earth. Random thought.
I can’t rag too much since my last name ain’t exactly from around here, either.
In Michigan you are required to register your handguns. But just handguns.
“Licensed to hunt Humans?” Go find and read the old Social Science Fiction Story ” The Tens Club”.
let the roits begin; the difference between florida and LA, chicago,Newark NJ is that florida is armed to teeth and when roiting breaks out so will the guns to shut it down.
it gonna be a good time to have CNN on
@barstoolguru, the will not be any roits. That much I can promise you. There hasn’t been a roit in FL since the last one went extinct in 1827.
Really!!! The evidence that this thug was predisposed toward violence cannot be used in court. What a bunch of BS! Of course the family is for this ruling. They are undoubtedly banking on the earnings from the subsequent lawsuits they will file. So, shall we assume that the entire criminal justice system will only make decisions based on political ideology? Are we to assume that there is no honesty in government any more? Are freedom loving Americans on their own when it comes to justice? I guess we will need to stay tuned and wait for the next atrocity to be thrown at us.
yall need to move to arizona! its great out here, no licence to carry open or concealed. no mag restrictions, no licence for anything. we scored a zero on the brady scale!
Dont forget that these people also think Heller means that they can ban everything except ONE gun and so long as you can have that, they’re not infringing the 2A. Also, god do i hate it when these assholes start off with “I own a gun…”, then go on about how we need to ban everything. Saying you own a gun then going on endlessly talking about banning pretty much all firearms, is like saying “I have black friends…” then saying something horribly racist.
I confess that as an aspiring 3-gun competitor, I look forward to these posts more than just about any other content on TTAG these days. I really appreciate that Nick takes the time to write up a thorough article to go with the video, which I can’t generally watch right away — frequently I don’t even have time to watch videos on the same day I read the article.
The only thing crazier is that the US is arming anyone…
*Other than Americans* fixed for you.
I occasionally get warned about potential firearms when responding
to a medical emergency. Generally, when LE gives me a heads up it’s
a vague “probable firearms in house” statement. When specific
information about the firearms comes down it’s always due to a third
party. Generally a domestic feud is the root cause and the person
reporting states that there are weapons and they paint the picture of
an unbalanced person. In my personal experience about 50% of
the reports that specifically mention firearms are made to further
harass the other party. I’m not discounting that LE is probably
(il)legally tracking gun owners, merely offering another possibility
of where the info is coming from.
How absolutely pathetic;
Yep, these are the “intellectual Elite”, standing on the shoulders of giants; inheritors of the legacy of a people that built a nation based on the ideas of individual freedom, responsibility and of armed citizens willing to risk their lives, fortunes and sacred honor to stand as free men and women rather than to be forced by the point of a sword or gun to kneel at the feet of tyrants.
He’s nothing more than a Paris Hilton; a sick and perverted shadow wallowing in the wealth of freedom fought and died for by better men and women than he could ever hope to be.
I had to read that a couple times. But I agree; we shouldn’t be in that business, PERIOD. But BUSINESS it is.
Believe it or not, Khadafy’s Libya was a beautiful, prosperous place, with a degree of affluence and free medical care and education, including higher education. As a result, there’s a high ratio of highly-educated people in Libya.
Until our country effed it royally by backing al-Queda “rebels” (thugs). REMEMBER AL-QUEDA? Now they’re our “friends” when the government needs them to be, and enemies when they need that. Like in Orwell’s 1984. Which is here, now.
But the wars of the near future will be fought over water, which is the oil of the near-future. And guess WHAT? Libya sits on top of the world’s largest, most valuable aquifer of clean, pure water….
It is truely horific what is going on in syria & no one is being informed.
I was listening to an update on Missionaries working in the war-torn country. They spoke of multitudes of refugees that have had their families wiped out in the geonicide that is occuring. Yet we hear NOTHING about it on our fake liberal news. Instead the topics of the day are How guns are evil, Obama can do no wrong & everyone else is an idiot!
One story a women refugee told was that 17 of here family memebers were killed and she and her daughters were beaten & raped. The men & boys of the village were all captured, brought to a wharehouse in the middle of the town & tortured for hours on end. They said the screams from inside could be heard accross town…. all night.
When morning came they could only watch as the buildings that were used for their torture raged in an all consuming fire that hauntingly lit up the entire town, destroying the evidence of the horrors that went on through the night.
Welcome to the real world people!
I’m reading heaps of comments regarding this being a “decent starting point” and it makes me ask, if “they” start here do you think there will be future tweaks to liberalize CC?
Mike Kelly, Mark Kelly, Martin O’Malley, James Brady, Daniel Malloy — why are so many Irish-Americans anti-gun?
I’m waiting on my first Form 4 precisely because I have recently come to this same conclusion. Why deal with muzzle blast for no reason? Why take the chance on hurting my hearing when out for game with my rifle? Why should I go deaf if I have to shoot a home intruder? I can’t think of a good reason for any of these .
It’s just cover for when everyone finds out we were already doing it via Benghazi and Turkey. Does anyone else find it funny McCain sneaked into Syria the same way our weapons do?
Yay! Just downloaded the Liberator plans. For posterity’s sake, y’know…
Decades ago the U.S. sided with Saudi Arabia, moving them out of the Russian sphere of influence and into ours. They became a supplier of oil and credit, a purchaser of U.S arms, and a non-belligerent neighbor of Israel (at the state level), though not publicly acknowledged. In exchange the U.S. sides with Saudi Arabia vs. Iran in a Sunni vs Shia proxy war.
See Saudis getting fed up with Obama’s dithering on Syria?
It looks like America policy is now kill everyone , anyway the American people pay for it all anyhow , budget problems , just raise the tax , more tax on gas, your house, tax and spend, someone sure is crying all the way to the banks, and the banks love war , thats how you finance both sides and get RICH… and we know the evil guns the American people have should be collected and given to the REBELS too. And our good friend China hacked and got all the latest high tect. weapons plans because they love us and would never hurt anyone with all the newest USA weapons… IS anyone SANE is D.C.
yeah, I wondered how many tater gun fans we had among us. good memories. like William said though – the spam cans and cinderblock at point blank range? made me very nervous as well. Javier Bardem’s air tank/ captive bolt contraption in no country for old men came to mind…yep, gun control my ass. we have something called innovation.
Wait! Arent po-pos around the country using plastic bullets as a “non-lethal” option?
So what’s so wrong with the fact citizens, other than those employed by corporate entities (“cops”), can make & use them?
Does anyone else hear the song “Bad Boys, Bad Boys…” in their head?
Rubber bullets can kill, but it takes precision.
Now, when the “printers” start using chlorates, permanganates and carbon in their feedstock hoppers…
Chlorophyll, pomegranates and carbohydrates? Sounds like hippy food in high velocity pill form.
Now if we could only get rid of all that bullshit paperwork and that bullshit tax stamp.
I have a buddy in England that finally got ok’d for a Walther G-22 and he was REQUIRED to get a suppressor.
Zimmerman is getting railroaded and we the people need to hold the tyrants responsible.
Nooses people. We’re gonna need bunches of nooses.
I just want to warhn Florida that the patience of the white Hispanic community is not limitless. If their man George Z is not promptly aquitted and released with apologies from the State and the media, they will take to the streets in their righteous wrath!
I just want to warn Florida that the patience of the white Hispanic community is not limitless. If their man George Z is not promptly aquitted and released with apologies from the State and the media, they will take to the streets in their righteous wrath!
I just want to warn IdahoPete that when your phone says your message wasn’t published, you should hit Refresh and check to make sure before you repost the same comment. Approximately 99.8% of the time, that message is displayed in error.
Or maybe it’s just your phone telling you that what you think is funny really isn’t that funny after all, and trying to give you a second to reconsider posting it.
what is the difference between us and them? they’ll riot and break stuff into the billion$, make the city democrats look racist, evil and White, murder and assault forcing Korean shopkeepers onto their roofs with shotguns…we, on the other hand will take it in the A as usual like the good little sheeple that we are. We need to start rioting and breaking stuff, since that is the only language this star chamber of Only Ones trying to railroad Z-man via this judge understand and speak fluently. The fix is in for Z…he’s already put on 120 pounds in lockup.
FL has many deep infected pockets of liberalism, snowbirds from new jersey, new york city, etc.:
http://gunssavelives.net/blog/veteran-sues-florida-city-after-his-guns-were-confiscated-never-returned-when-he-sought-treatment-for-depression/
many of them look like this guy:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/labor_big_real_heavy_sleeper_jl3C7gI710FI3XqpEl5o3O
reminds me of michael behenna: “no expectation of self defense in a combat zone” versus a terrorist trying to kill him that already killed several of his men:
http://tinytext.org/6g90
“• A state motion to compel George Zimmerman’s wife, Shellie Zimmerman, to testify at a deposition, but Nelson said Shellie can take the Fifth and prosecutors will have to submit their questions in writing to the court and Nelson will decide if Shellie has to answer those specific questions.”
Wait, isn’t there some pesky little thing called “the law” whereby one cannot be compelled to testify against their spouse?
dear sir or vagina:
as the webmaster of http://www.thelessergender.com, i think that it is long overdue and high-time for society to stop using the word “cop” to describe policemen. i think that the word “cop” is used to slight policemen, it is said with no respect at all, much like how so many refer to men not as “men” but as “guys” while never failing to show respect to members of the shorter/smaller/weaker/lesser gender by referring to them as “women”.
i’m not going to try to sell the reader on reasons why they should respect policemen, that would be as productive as trying to explain the principle of “masculine superiority” to a population of mind-numb couch-potatoes who buy into the “a woman can do anything a man can do” line without realizing how real life (ie, gender-based athletics, gender-based eating competitions, gender-based military requirements and gender-based olympic events) slaps the notion of gender-equality right in the face. i’m not going to try to sell the reader on reasons why they should respect policemen by not referring to them as “cops,” i actually don’t believe that most people have respect for policemen. i don’t think that people nowadays have respect for anything but their own desires.
i realize how george zimmerman was not a policeman, though i don’t believe that someone like trayvon martin was even capable of showing respect to ANY authority figure, but if trayvon martin had better parents then he’d be alive today and he would NOT be burning in hell. if trayvon martin had parents who were involved in trayvon’s life and who were trying to bring their son up to be a polite and respectful “model citizen,” well, he wouldn’t have had a chip on his shoulder big enough to refer to zimmerman as a “cracker” before any confrontations even happened. if trayvon’s parents were better people who instilled a better sense of dignity into trayvon, then trayvon would have been able to speak to a neighborhood watchman in a neighborly way…and a confrontation with zimmerman would have ended with a handshake.
did trayvon martin even HAVE two parents, or could his delinquency be blamed on a broken home? like britney spears, trayvon was “not that innocent,” but he’s a LOT more guilty than britney will ever be. trayvon martin was suspended from school three times (oops, i did it again) and he was on suspension when he was shot. trayvon was caught with a marijuana pipe and a baggie with drug-residue. trayvon was kicked out of school for graffiti, he was caught with a burglary tool and a bag of (not skittles) womens’ jewelry. he was suspended for skipping school and for tardiness.
trayvon martin was NOT THAT INNOCENT, a far-cry from the adorable picture of a sweet little negro-boy with a hollister t-shirt on and an ever-present smile on his face. i also wonder, if trayvon was such an exemplarary young man, why would he stay and fight someone twice his size and nearly twice his age when he could so easily have outrun zimmerman and gone back into the 7-11 for some more skittles and a well-lit vantage-point to provide protection from zimmerman? trayvon could’ve even asked for help from the cashier or anyone else in the store.
he’s not that innocent. he could have run into a lighted store with people inside who could have helped, but trayvon chose to “stand his ground” and to use deadly force. isn’t that the “stand your ground” law? being used by trayvon? NO!!!!
anyway, so trayvon chose to stand his ground and to bloody-up zimmerman’s head. he’s probably not totally to blame, i mean, he may have been inspired to use deadly force against zimmerman because the 7-11 he just left had an 80’s radio-station on. trayvon could have been inspired to do what he did to zimmerman ‘s head because the last song he heard was quiet riot’s song called “bang your head”. we can’t put all the blame on the sweet, innocent negro-boy. it is wrong to even try.
now, i realize how most negros (old and young) have no respect for the police. for crying out loud, their african-bongo music has them rapping “FUCK THE POLICE” and “COP KILLER” day in and day out. who could possibly expect more from a race of people if a lot of the most successful (and most heard) members of their race are spewing this kind of hatred, disrespect and vitriol? i grew up watching “the cosby show,” every thursday at 8, the huxtables are the kinds of people that blacks should look up to and respect – not “gangsta rappers” or anyone else with racist or sexist or classist chips on their shoulders. the huxtables MADE something out of themselves, cliff the doctor and clair the lawyer, sandra probably didn’t rely on any “americans with disabilities” act known as “affirmative action” to earn her place in college. as for denise, theo and rudy, well, they lived in a nice home with loving and caring parents who brought them up with a sense of dignity and self-respect. with what negroes are exposed to nowadays, it seems like that show can join “leave it to beaver” in the “yeah, that can happen” trash-heap of history.
trayvon martin was a disgusting excuse for a human being. there, i said it. trayvon martin’s parents are BAD PARENTS because they are responsible for the lowlife-criminal that trayvon turned out to be. i guess “the cosby show” really is black-america’s “leave it to beaver” – heck, it is white-america’s “leave it to beaver” after a “leave it to beaver” type of american life became a subject for ridicule. “the cosby show” – a strong family unit, parents who grew up before they became parents, parents who don’t rely on government for their lives, a sense of self-love and self-respect, dignity, a pride of self (every aspect of self, not just one), “the cosby show” exuded all of this. sure, at times it was a vehicle for mister roger’s neighborhood and the “land of make believe,” sexist in its attempts to get people to stop regarding the shorter/smaller/weaker gender as “lesser,” but overall it was an excellent show and if more families – black and white – would be like the huxtables then maybe the world would be a better place. maybe trayvon would be alive today – maybe trayvon would not have been suspended from school so much, maybe trayvon would not have had gold teeth – maybe trayvon would have had better parents. that’s what it all comes down to, trayvon is dead because his parents did not bring him up to be a model citizen or even a worthy citizen. worthwhile.
if only george zimmerman wasn’t patrolling that night. if only trayvon didn’t have a racist chip on his shoulder. if only trayvon grew up in a “huxtable” household rather than the household his parents provided. if only trayvon’s parents were better people. if trayvon’s parents were respectable people who respected people, it’s not hard to fathom that trayvon would have grown up with a respect of people and not with the racist chip on his shoulder that made him regard a total stranger as a “cracker”.
before i end and send this essay, did you ever wonder why a word like “cracker” can be used on tv and a word like “nigger” is replaced with “the n-word”? nobody dares to say “nigger,” but “cracker” is fine. i’m just going to type it some more, it feels so good on my fingertips. nigger. nigger. nigger. 🙂
mr. dylan terreri, i
dr. sheldon cooper, ii
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“When I’m hungry, I eat. When I’m thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.” – Madonna
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