Another disruption to the media narrative:
George Michael Zimmerman, born Oct. 5, 1983, registered as a Democrat in Seminole County, Fla., in August 2002, according to state voter registration documents.
It is unclear whether he voted for President Barack Obama in 2008.
Some in the media have sought to blame Republican politicians and conservative activists for Martin’s death.
“[Republican politicians] reinforce and validate old stereotypes that associate the poor and welfare as criminal behavior with African-Americans and people of color, calling us lazy, undeserving recipients of public assistance. In the case of Trayvon, those festering stereotypes had lethal consequences,” said MSNBC political analyst and Democratic fundraiser Karen Finney.
According to the document, Zimmerman’s race is officially listed as Hispanic. The son of a white father and Peruvian mother, he has been described as a “white Hispanic” in most media reports.
As soon as this story became a political football, the backgrounds of both Zimmerman and Martin became relevant. Discussion of both became fair game. From what we continue to learn about both, this story just refuses to cooperate with the medialeft’s narrative of white racist Republican cracker killed angelic black youth in cold blood, police look the other way citing unnecessary “stand your ground” laws. The man who pulled the trigger was neither white nor Republican. The black youth was less than angelic. While “stand your ground” doesn’t seem to apply, one’s natural right of self-defense may well apply. The police may well have done everything right according to the law and the circumstances. Having evidently learned nothing from the Richard Jewell affair, the Tucson shootings, the AP’s wretched reporting over the course the entire Iraq war, and numerous other cases, the mainstream medialeft has behaved disgracefully throughout this story. There is no sign of any soul-searching taking place among them, as of yet.
The Black Panthers’ bounty on Zimmerman still stands, by the way.
Update: Christian Adams details the criminal acts that the Black Panthers have committed during the Martin case. “Solicitation to kidnap” is a serious crime, but as of yet it remains unpunished.
Well, that makes the charge of racism more credible.
Ya beat me to it.
Or to put it as someone else on the blogosphere did:
Southern Democrats have been violent towards people of color for generations.
The media will of course non-report anything about Zimmerman that does not fit the narrative.
They’ve moved on to Governor Rick Scott (R, white) and State Attorney General Pam Bondi (R, white). Local media is having a field day asking Bondi when will there be an arrest, and Bondi just stating that the investigations are not complete.
You could play the same tape back from last week, and Bondi hasn’t said anything different, but the media keep asking the same question over and over, usually starting with “After the big rally in (Orlando, Tampa, Miami, Bug Tussle), when will there be an arrest?”
marco73 – Isn’t great we have an alternative now? No more being misled by the LSM. PJM has been terriffic on this case. (Haven’t had time to look at Big Government, but I suspect they’re probably equally good on this.)
Jack you are 100% correct.
We typically watch the first few minutes of the local evening news to get to the weather. The old style baritone and the bubble-headed blonde co-anchors bat this story back and forth, but always seems to be a day or 2 behind in what I’ve seem here. And I always find it amazing that they cannot mention anything bad about Martin nor anything good about Zimmerman. They show a Zimmerman photo that is pretty bland, and they always show Martin as about 13 years old. Come on, he was 17, not in middle school.
They generally show some footage from the rally du jour, and interview 1 or 2 people who “won’t rest until justice is done!” I have not seen any opposing opinions; the only person who has commented on air that they need to wait for the investigation to conclude is Bondi, and both anchors sneer after she is on. The only person who isn’t 100% in the Trayvon camp is the weather guy, because all he ever wants to talk about is if it will rain.
If Zimmerman is a ‘White Hispanic’ is Obama a “White Black”?
Yup!
And if he had a son that age with Moochelle (whose family is affiliated with Gangster Disciples), the son would have his own expensive gold grill in his mouth and ugly tattoos, and he’d follow Mooch’s family tradition of drug-peddling and gang-banging. He’d be just like Trayvon Martin.
Yup…
Went here to get a better idea what this kid was like. http://www.wagist.com/2012/dan-linehan/was-trayvon-martin-a-drug-dealer
However, all the facts are not in, let the police investigate, let them do their jobs and then let the facts be presented to all people.
Sadly, as I listen now to a black conservative radio host, he has callers who are having their heads explode over this perceived “epidemic” of white-on-black violence. It’s garbage. But the phone calls from blacks are full of yelling, screaming and anger. It’s worse than I could ever imagine because there are so many who believe it.
This may be the thing that the Obama regime needs to foment a race-riot in the US. I’m sure there are a great many who would refuse to participate but the younger, more ignorant ones are probably primed and ready.
I am stealing that. Good one.
– tar pits couldn’t be more sticky.
Signs we’d like to see…
DANGER: TAR PITS AHEAD!
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“[Republican politicians] reinforce and validate old stereotypes that associate the poor and welfare as criminal behavior with African-Americans and people of color, calling us lazy, undeserving recipients of public assistance. In the case of Trayvon, those festering stereotypes had lethal consequences,”
As one who works in the Social Services, previously in urban areas, let me say:
Near as I can tell, they like living in their own filth. This is harsh, yes, but it’s coming from the perspective of a citizen of a nation that has thrown that community countless billions of dollars over more than 45 years and legislated the living hell out of everything we can to redress the past wrong. And if anything, it’s all gone backwards.
This is a fact. Everything I ever hear from people in the urban black community is how put upon they are; how it’s never their fault; how someone else is forcing them to live in poverty and squalor.
Every black man or woman I know that have made something significant of themselves have had drive, perseverance, ambition, and has no affinity for the entitlement mentality, nor “Thug” culture.
Make of that what you will.
Bryan – Wonderful post. You and others I cited in Roger Simon’s post this morning have been wonderful in exposing the truth about this. A hearty Yasher Ko’ach. (As Simon what that means.)
Actually, beyond acting disgracefully the media may be steering towards “reckless disregard for the facts” territory if they don’t start printing the stuff that indicates Martin was probably what he was–a young man in the “I’m a bada** mofo, so don’t mess with me” stage that some young men decide to be for a while. Unfortunately, it appears he decided to hit someone who could shoot back.
Personally, if I was a lawyer, I’d take the libel case for Zimmerman based on the photo selection choices by many media alone. Same thing with private individuals.
I have a good feel for how this is already going to end. But we should all remember that if George Zimmerman gets vindicated, that he is going to get saved because his attacker already had a past. What of those–white, mainly–who never get so lucky, who are fed to wolves of political correctness, because the evidence does not line up for them? People convicted in the eyes of others because of their background, and not much else?
In the 1990s, during the Bill Clinton years, did we put in the seeds of one system of racial injustice because of fears of another one that had already been dead, say, 20 years? I say yes, we in fact did.
I sometimes find it very hard to understand why those of the left at the Barack Obama level do what they do, because I don’t understand how they think sometimes. But I think I have teased this out–they are very afraid of the black vote not always being monolithically Democratic in preference, and that might be because it is useful for getting college students to prefer their side (“see, America is still racist”)–and thus worth taking hits if that advantage can be maintained. In other words, a continuing fight for what are viewed as the minds of the future.
And as a further surmise, anyone or thing that threatens the ability to get the college minds of the future on their side will be demonized to the fullest extent possible. Thus, the Tea Party demonization. They don’t want college kids thinking it’s okay.
Personally, I think they have put too much emphasis on college grads if this is, but they must think it is the key to the future. That would also indicate they might subtly fight efforts to reestablish “common man America” as the decider of things (i.e., the yeomanry), vice “experts”, so as to not give up an advantage.
So….Dictator OMobba I guess is black-white.
Something new every day. First Martin was 9 years old, then 17, then we find out his school record and see his grills. There are so many things wrong with this case.
While I was researching if Zimmerman was jewish, I discover he is in fact Jewish. Why are jews Democrats? Then I see that his father is jewish and a retired judge. See below:
Imagine this headline Zimmerman Described As ‘White’ Because Media Can’t say Jewish.
Indeed Zimmerman father Robert Zimmerman is Jewish and a retired judge.
Norman Wolfinger, the state attorney, who blocked manslaughter charges and the arrest of George Zimmerman is also Jewish.
George Zimmerman had 3 prior arrest, 2 for assaulting police, and one domestic violence all three charges dropped. Coincidence?
Norman Wolfinger recently recused himself from the case. When why asked why he blocked the arrest and manslaugher charges, his office responded no comment. I think he owes
that state of Florida a comment.
What a profiling can of worms this will be. Better to bash whites than Jews?
>>>While I was researching if Zimmerman was jewish, I discover he is in fact Jewish<<<
How did you discover that he is in fact Jewish?
Zimmerman Jr. was raised Catholic and was an altar boy and a boy is only Jewish if the mother is Jewish AND if he is circumcised in a rabbinical approved way NOT because his father may or may not be Jewish.
And don't come up with the name "Zimmerman(n)" because this is one of the most common names in Germany/Austria/Switzerland.
It didn't take long for the black community to blame the Jews and to show her antisemitism and racism.
Zimmerman is a German last name. It could be Jewish, but in this case it is not. Zimmer in German means room. Somewhere along the line Zimmerman’s famaily must have rented out rooms to people in German. Zimmerman could be a Protestent last name. Shall we condemn all protestent Germans without good reason? Why not? In this world, people seem to get off on blaming one group of people.Since I have lived in many countries, I can say this with ease.