We have another black youth dead as a result of violence. Was the homicide a murder or self-defense? We don’t know yet.
What we do know is that the New Black Panther Party, the Reverends Jackson and Sharpton have made large statements that this was murder. They concluded this based upon apparently falsely edited tapes and other misrepresentations by national news agencies. But, their main reason for making so much noise in this case is to push the race angle. The shooter, Zimmerman, is a hispanic or as some have referred to him as a white hispanic.
The facts about black youth deaths is that a black youth is substantially more likely to be killed by another black than by a white. As a matter of fact, a white person is more likely to get killed by a black person than vice versa. But, that doesn’t fit the narrative established by the race industry and the national news agencies.
The real travesty is that the only reason the Martin shooting is making it to the national news services is because of the race of Zimmerman. If Zimmerman was black, we would never about this case. That fact alone says a lot about us as a culture today, and what it says is not good.
Race is irrelevant to this case. We have another teenager killed as a result of violence. Whether the homicide is justified or not, we’ll have to wait on the facts, but that doesn’t change the fact that a teenager was killed before his life could really begin. This is today’s America. Ain’t it great?
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