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Why are the current protests called "Justice for Trayvon"?

I understand the original protests last year being called Justice for Trayvon because there was no trial to present the facts. Now there has been a trial and Zimmerman was found not guilty based on the evidence. The current protests seem less like "Justice for Trayvon" and more like Revenge for Trayvon.

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  • 8 years ago
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    "We hate all whities" wouldn't go over well.

    What is really needed are "justice for George" rallies as his civil rights were grossly violated when false charges were made to appease a violent segment of the population.

  • Rick
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    These protests have Al Sharpton's finger prints all over them. Our Afro-American citizens should ignore his rants about anger and revenge hidden by the disguise of "justice". How Sharpton, with his past history, came to be a leader is a total mystery. Bill Cosby has it right. The Afro-American family and family values need to be strengthened. This is the heart of the problem. They booed Mr Cosby off the stage when he said this. They should have listened.

  • Archer
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    They feel that not having Trayvon be responsible for creating the situation that got him killed is justice.

    This is the black mentality in that they can kill anyone because they are oppressed and are products of slavery who are not responsible for that which other societies force them to do.

    They will never evolve beyond the ghetto mentality as a race until they learn that the individual not the race is responsible for that which they choose to do.

    Think about it

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    The black community tend to want things their way. I am speaking from experience of knowing many people of that race. Take a look at the OJ case for example, people had riots to let them black man free when it was as clear as day that he murdered those people.

    They are blocking out the facts and just protesting out of their behinds. I bet most of those people don't even know the facts. A lot of them probably just heard that a white colored male, who is actually Hispanic, killed a black "kid".

    If this was any other race, it wouldn't even have made it to the TV.

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  • Noah
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    Tryvon got all the justice he's going to get. Meanwhile dozens of other 'Trayvon' have been blown away by other black guys with funny names and nobody cares...at least not to the point of actually DOING something....unless you think another 'gun law' is doing something. Let's be real...a lot of black guys think it's cool to be gunslingers and if you plug someone you get extra street cred. For someone who lives a comic book life, that's evidently enough. Meanwhile a million other black guys are trying to get an education and make something out of their lives and they have to contend with 'the brothers' that make it ever more difficult for the decent brothers to advance themselves. Rallying for 'Justice for Tryvon'? These people disgust me....what about the black guys that have to dodge bullets while they're trying to better themselves....no justice for them!

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Liberals and blacks just can't stand to hear something theu dont like, so they start hate fueled revenge mobs. You're absolutely correct. Even though a court of law has spoken, they still think that Zimmerman is guilty, and think they're above the law. These so called "masters of tolerance" can't tolerate something they don't want to hear, so they go into their childish rant and throw a tantrum.

  • 8 years ago

    Because the people involved in those wrong-headed protests either refuse to acknowledge or are too stupid to understand the concept of self-defense. And they can't differentiate between Florida's STAND YOUR GROUND law and self-defense.

    Blacks kill blacks a hundred times a day. One un-black guy kills a black guy, in self-defense mind you, and ol' Al "The Charlatan" Sharpton and Jessie Jackson kick into high gear with off the wall racist bullsh*t. It's disgusting.

  • 8 years ago

    You are right.

    Unfortunately, nothing anybody can do will bring Trayvon back to life.

    But there is nobody living who is directly to blame. Indirectly, maybe. I understand his family was breaking up and he was very upset. Teens, when upset, sometimes do dumb things.

  • 8 years ago

    Zimmerman was found not guilty of 2nd degree murder. That doesn't mean he wasn't guilty of manslaughter. The prosecution screwed up by charging him for the greater crime, because they couldn't prove ill intent beyond a reasonable doubt.

    Evidence indicates that he got out of his car with a gun and followed Martin because he "looked suspicious" and failed to comply when the 911 operator told him to stop following Martin. His injuries were not consistent with his head being bashed into the cement, but with a fist fight only. He put himself into a confrontation position with Martin, then shot him dead.

    At no time was Trayvon actively committing any crime when Zimmerman chose to follow him. Martin was being followed by a strange man for no reason, so he "stood his ground" and fought. The cries for help immediately stopped when the gun fired, indicating that Martin was the one screaming for help. (Why would a man pointing his gun at someone be screaming for help?)

    "Justice for Trayvon" sounds right to me.

  • 8 years ago

    The blacks just want things their way murders read this see who the murders really are, read www.fatersmanidfesto just below is the address Go to web page read the rest.

    Do you think there is no cause for self-defense read this.

    In just four decades, American blacks killed almost as many Whites as were killed in WWII, four times as many Whites as were killed in Vietnam, and 60 times as many Whites as died in 911 or Iraq

    see;

    http://fathersmanifesto.net/homicide.htm

    BLACKS 42,150 *TIMES* GREATER THREAT THAN MUSLIM TERRORISTS

    The ability of the biased news sources to deceive is incredible. Muslims who're here don't belong here and need to go home. You don't need to love Muslims to recognize that our media has been so anti-Muslim for so long that it's really difficult to put this problem with black homicide back into perspective.

    One way to assess the reality of Muslims versus blacks regarding violence is to compare their murder rates, as that's the ultimate form and proof of violent tendencies. The homicide rates in most Muslim countries average only 1 per 100,000 population, ONE EIGHTIETH of the highest homicide rate in the civilized [and most uncivilized] nations, in Washington, DC. In 1991, the homicide rate in Washington was 80.6, which was 201 TIMES higher than Saudi Arabia's rate of 0.4.

    The fact that Washington's homicide rate has gone down since then, if it really has, means that it's still FORTY TIMES HIGHER than most Arab nations and a hundred times higher than Saudi Arabia, and the only possible reason is blacks. Looking at the last century, here are the indisputable facts:

    A) 19 out of 1.2 billion Muslims, or 0.000001583% of them, killed 3,000 Americans

    B) 800,000 out of 33 million blacks, or 2.4% of them, killed 800,000 Americans.

    This means that the average American is 1,531,100 TIMES more likely to be killed by a black than by a Muslim.

    Put another way, the American black, per capita, whose genocidal rampage has gone almost completely unnoticed by the media, has PROVEN to be ONE AND A HALF MILLION TIMES MORE DEADLY than Muslims.

    If blacks think it's unfair to calculate this per capita,then let's do some simpler math that they may understand:

    A) Blacks who murdered Americans in the 20th century = 800,000.

    B) Muslims who murdered Americans in the last thousand years = 19

    C) Ratio: 42,105 TIMES.

    Even calculating it this way, American blacks are 42 THOUSAND more deadly than Muslims--excluding the ADDITIONAL 4 MILLION murders they'll commit in the 21st Century if drastic action isn't taken immediately.

    POVERTY DOESN'T CAUSE CRIME

    If poverty causes crime, then Washington, DC, with one of the highest per capita incomes of any US city, and per student education spending 5 times that of North Dakota, would have the lowest homicide rate in the country, or even the world. But it doesn't. Instead, in 1990, you were 350 times more likely to be a homicide victim in our nation's capitol than you were in North Dakota, and 14 times more likely than in poverty stricken Rwanda where the average income is less than $40 per month. Not a single African nation, where incomes average less than $50 per month, has a homicide rate that comes even close to our nation's capitol, a true testament to the wisdom of mongrelization.

    GUN CONTROL DOESN'T STOP CRIME

    Our nation's capitol, with the strictest gun control laws in the country, is also a monument to the failure of the "liberal" concept of "gun control". If gun control was really effective at preventing homicides, then North Dakota would have had a homicide rate 350 times higher than Washington, rather than the other way around.

    Not even the strictest gun control, the highest education spending, the highest per capita incomes, the most intense federal scrutiny and hand wringing and out of control budgets the world has ever witnessed, nor the world's highest incarceration rate by far, made even a dent in any homicide rate anywhere in the US, particularly not in our nation's capitol. What DID work in Washington was to quietly reduce the percentage of the population who are blacks from 80% in 1991 to 60% in 1999, reducing its homicide rate from 80.6 to 35.8 per 100,000 population. But not even that 56% reduction in its homicide rate was enough to reduce its ranking as the world's murder capitol for very long, because by 2002 it was back again to the Murder Capitol of the World.

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