On the acquittal of George Zimmerman for the murder of Trayvon Martin
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As far back as 1970, former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark noted in his magisterial "Crime in America" (Simon and Schuster, 1970) that vigilanteism in the long run tends to be as bad as the criminality it ostensibly opposes( it's no coincidence that not only the Klan but groups like the Yakuza( Japan), Triads (China) and La Cosa Nostra, popularly known as the "Mafia" began as vigilantes.
If the murder of Trayvon Martin by racist vigilante George Zimmerman using Florida's infamous "stand your ground law" and his acquittal by an almost entirely white( albeit all female) jury last Saturday does NOT make this perfectly clear. Zimmerman and his supporters/family can deny racist intent until they and he are blue in the face- "some of my best friends are black"- but like pornography devoid of social merit and sin in the priesthood I KNOW racists when I see them- claims that he is a "white Hispanic"( whatever that means, presumably like Cameron Diaz or Charlie Sheen) and therefore cannot be racist are sheer baloney- would Zimmerman who before his arrest and trial seems not to have identified in any meaningful way the Hispano/Latin community (depsite his mother's purported Peruvian background) have felt free to stalk a white youth( even one wearing a hoodie(memo to Geraldo Rivera over at FOX TV- I myself own a hoodie and have seen many people of all races and both sexes wearing them- does that mean that if I lived in Florida or America in general, somebody like George Zimmerman- a wannabe cop apparently- has a god given right to blow me away on a dark night and then kill him, disregarding warnings from the police dispatcher to let the cops do their job?
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