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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Histrionic no. History is on PP side.[b] Remember the Scotsboro Boys, Emmit Till,[/b] and all the other nameless black boys killed by a white man simply because of the color of his race. Walking suspiciously in ones own neighborhood. I have known of driving while black, now there is a walking while black. [/quote]

Yes, since there was violence against young black men in 1931 and 1955, this must have been murder.  Awesome logic.  [/quote]

You must be white. How lucky for you to be so privileged. [/quote]

Ah yes, dismal logic has been exposed, so now you resort to - what?  You're white, so you don't understand?  Your powers of reasoning are truly stunning.  [/quote]

History does prove that many young black men were senselessly [b]murdered[/b] by racist white men (who were never punished). The black American psyche still has not recovered, and probably never will. Especially given that many black people in this country lived under Jim Crow and lived with the atrocities that whites in America inflicted upon blacks.  You expect people to be able to get over that and pretend that we now live in a post-racial world where this was not racially motivated? Get real. My grandmother is 90 and still shakes when she sees policemen because she remembers her father being dragged out of their home on the Eastern Shore of MD and beaten almost to death by the local police chief and his deputy in 1930 when she was 6 years old. His offense? Selling more pigs than a neighboring white farmer. They also shot all of his livestock. Most white people do not believe me when I tell this story. No wonder I am an angry black woman.

Given the facts available in this situation, it is not a leap to conjecture that Zimmerman's zeal to follow Martin was racially motivated and that he chose to shoot him because that same prejudice that led him to follow Martin also led him to believe that Martin was dangerous.

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I agree with you 100%. And I'm sorry about what happened to your great-grandfather. [b]I try not to think too much about the cruel treatment of the past. It is such a sad, sad, sad, sad, SAD thing to think about.[/b] [/quote]

Yeah, and I will NEVER try to not think about this horrific part of our past. This is a common thing I hear from white friends. It allows them to get over their white guilt. We need to be mindful of the past and honest about it so that we can make sure it never happens again.

When people talk about trying not to think about the past, it makes me sick. [/quote]

I didn't mean that in the way you took it. I'm black. I meant that if I think too much about the way my ancestors were treated, I get really angry. That anger does me no good. I love to have a great discussion about the past, but I'm talking specifically about being angry about the cruel treatment. I make an effort to separate my emotions from the conversation because otherwise it gets to be too much. I once took an English course that focused on the Mistresses of slave plantations. The Professor played an audiotape of slaves who were interviewed right after emancipation. I had to leave the room because I was in tears. I was very angry for the rest of that day thinking about the injustice. It would have been very easy for me to direct this anger in the wrong way.

That's all I meant. I NEVER meant to suggest that we should ignore our past. I'm extremely proud of my ancestors; it just makes me very sad/pissed when I think about how they were treated. I try very hard to focus more on their perseverance. [/quote]

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