Originally Posted by
radiojane
Seems this case has brought out a whole shit load of ugly. Perpetrator, victim, activists, law enforcement.... and the cyber peanut gallery. Not a good look on a lot of people.
I just spent a good three hours on this case. What I've gleaned is that a mentally and morally questionable wannabe Melvin Purvis saw his chance to be a hero and gunned down a kid with a bag of skittles. A kid who maybe dressed a little thuggish like most of his peers and who might have been busted with a little weed once (a substance which I'm sure roughly 50 percent or more of the nation has tried). Law enforcement saw this guy as a nuisance and not the escalating threat he was, and there's a law in Florida that needs some tweaking. A few blowhards and a publicity hungry family have started a circus rather than a quest for justice, and we the people are falling hook line and sinker.
Couple things we humans should probably remember:
Saying that if a black kid had gunned down a white kid it wouldn't be news is, guess what? RACISM. Whole bunch of pot/kettle, and simply not true. There would be an outcry, and worse a whole bunch of vicious, "I told you so"'s from people who should be wearing white sheets. Coming from middle class whites it sounds even more ridiculous.
Saying that blacks are the only ones targeted by law enforcement unfairly is even more ignorant racism. Ask any asian, muslim, Indian, Native American or even a white person in an area predominantly occupied by one of the former. It goes every which way folks.
And making the assumption that a white person has no idea what racism is, especially in this day and age with the amount of immigration and multiculturalism is also a dumb assumption.
Bottom line, some very racially biased colors are being shown by EVERYONE, and if you really want to prove you aren't part of that mob, drop the rhetoric and focus on the facts.