Good article.

In fairness to the village manager, however, the statement he released is the Police Chief's words, in answer to press questions, not the village managers (VM was on a TV program last night and clarified that). So it is the Police Chief saying he couldn't do an arrest, not the village manager. Which makes it even more screwed.

Makes sense, not the name, not at all. My time in Florida taught me that the hispanics down there do not care much for black people at all.

Probably best to focus on George Zimmerman himself, not "races".

The tape has the,"the assholes always get away" comment, and the controversial (is it real? deleted by the PD? added later?) "f.u.c.k.ing coons" comment from Zimmerman, before he ever got out of the car and had physical contact with the kid he murdered.

All Zimmerman knew about the person he saw walking is that he thought he was black.

And here I though Ramsey Zimmerman was in trouble again...

I am at a loss as to why people thought that the election of a President would make people less biased or racist? Not to mention that this country hardly has a monopoly on racist people. Most conflicts in the world have a large element of race/religion involved

:zz: I doubt anybody thought that. It's backwards.

The thought would be that the election of a mixed-race president could occur in the first place because enough voters were less biased or racist.

Yeah, a shame, as this is the most free country in the world, created out of immigrants and mixed races. Too bad the hate and racism of some persists, even here. Look at the Christian Taliban here. Look at Rick Santorums current "preacher" problem, just like Rev. Wright, the preacher telling everyone not like him to get out of the USA. It's disgusting, their hate to non-what-they-are.

And that hate and racism and bigotry should be least tolerable in the United States than anywhere else on earth, according to our Constitution. Our whole existence here is founded upon, "All men are created equal".

Obama's election merely brought the racist and intolerating and bigoted out of their crypts, where we can point at them in disgust.

Yes and the racism of those immigrants isn't eliminated when they touch ground here.

True: Italian, Jewish, Irish, German, Mexican, Japanese, etc. Racists are racists.

But that doesn't mean we should tolerate that here. Racism is learned behaviour. Do you think we should tolerate racism in the United States?

I believe that it is your right to be racist as long as you remain within the laws of the land. I wouldn't consider myself racist in the least and have disassociated myself at times of my life with those who are but sometimes the political correctness in this country gets completely out of hand.

Of course it's one's "right" to be racist in the USA. Fully agree. The question was, do you think we should tolerate racism in the US?

Socially tolerating racism is a sure way to propogate it, IMO, as it's learned behaviour.

If one is with someone, and they say, "Hey, look at that ...... " (fill in any obviously hateful racial expletive) one has a choice on how to react.

I agree that political correctness can get out of hand here.

It is difficult to not tolerate it to a degree because of the freedom as individuals that we have. The thing is that the country has made tremendous strides in this area yet we are often browbeaten into thinking that racism is still running rampant. As long as you have people with differences socially, economically, historically, culturally, etc you are going to have some biases and racism that will live on regardless.

And today's unbelievably moronic comment winner is Geraldo Rivera, who said today on Fox News:

Yeah. And men who wear shorts get raped? So don't wear shorts?

There is no facepalm large enough to describe this.

Hint, Geraldo: Treyvon was killed by a racist toting a gun and pursing a black man. His hoodie had nothing to do with it.

Remember Geraldo the patriot in the Gulf War?

Pentagon seeks Geraldo Rivera's removal.



http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/i...pentagon_x.htm

When "Neighborhood Watch" Gets Out of Hand
 

Has Geraldo issued an edict to the New England Patriots cautioning them about allowing Bill Belichick to wear his favorite sideline gear next season?

I now am convinced this whole case IS about race and the Sanford PD after all. Think of it this way. If Trayvon had been legally carrying, and Zimmerman was casually walking along (roles reversed), and the same thing happened, what would you have? Answer - a murdered innocent guy and another black guy in the pokey not likely to be heard from ever again.

Where is Zimmerman, by the way? Is he in Casey Anthony land? Is anyone speaking for him yet? If he's smart, he's long gone.


Ocala Mike

Now there are stories in various sources about three witnesses. Two that saw Zimmerman kneeling over an immobile Treyvon. And one that says Trayvon (100 pounds lighter than Zimmerman) was on top of Zimmerman, holding him down, while Zimmerman was screaming for help.

The police department dismissed the first two witnesses, and released Zimmerman based upon the third is the way the story is being told.

This is seriously crazy. Why isn't the guy simply arrested for manslaughter and booked, so the case will stop being tried in public, and associates of the case have to stop talking about it in public? What is wrong with this police department?

Some lawyer, who only said he was a "representative", showed up and said Zimmerman is hiding in fear of his life.

Geraldo triples down on his prejudices
 

How can any American human above the age of eight be this blindly ignorant? I guess it's the only way he can get media coverage now a days?

A Zimmerman attorney supposedly said he, zimmerman, has been mentoring a young black kid....:zz:

Give Geraldo a break, been out of the limelight for awhile...what better way to surface on the national scene than an appearance on O'rielly and dive in head first...:)

True that :p Thank goodness Fox has it's own TV station. They can keep their own people visiting each others programs on Fox, so their people get "major media exposure" :D