Zimmermans story....

[Willi]

BUD.

[Willi]

SOME white peeps a lick out!

by Michael Skolnik

>
>
> I will never look suspicious to you. Even if I have a black hoodie, a
> pair of jeans and white sneakers on...in fact, that is what I wore
> yesterday...I still will never look suspicious. No matter how much the
> hoodie covers my face or how baggie my jeans are, I will never look
> out of place to you. I will never watch a taxi cab pass me by to pick
> someone else up. I will never witness someone clutch their purse
> tightly against their body as they walk by me. I won't have to worry
> about a police car following me for two miles, so they can "run my
> plates." I will never have to pay before I eat. And I certainly will
> never get "stopped and frisked." I will never look suspicious to you,
> because of one thing and one thing only. The color of my skin. I am
> white.
>
> I was born white. It was the card I was dealt. No choice in the
> matter. Just the card handed out by the dealer. I have lived my whole
> life privileged. Privileged to be born without a glass ceiling.
> Privileged to grow up in the richest country in the world. Privileged
> to never look suspicious. I have no guilt for the color of my skin or
> the privilege that I have. Remember, it was just the next card that
> came out of the deck. But, I have choices. I got choices on how I
> play the hand I was dealt. I got a lot of options. The ball is in my
> court.
>
> So, today I decided to hit the ball. Making a choice. A choice to
> stand up for Trayvon Martin. 17 years old. black. innocent. murdered
> with a bag of skittles and a bottle of ice tea in his hands.
> "Suspicious." that is what the guy who killed him said he looked like
> cause he had on a black hoodie, a pair of jeans and white sneakers.
> But, remember I had on that same outfit yesterday. And yes my Air
> Force Ones were "brand-new" clean. After all, I was raised in
> hip-hop...part of our dress code. I digress. Back to Trayvon and the
> gated community in Sanford, Florida, where he was visiting his father.
>
> I got a lot of emails about Trayvon. I have read a lot of articles.
> I have seen a lot of television segments. The message is consistent.
> Most of the commentators, writers, op-ed pages agree. Something went
> wrong. Trayvon was murdered. Racially profiled. Race. America's
> elephant that never seems to leave the room. But, the part that
> doesn't sit well with me is that all of the messengers of this message
> are all black too. I mean, it was only two weeks ago when almost
> every white person I knew was tweeting about stopping a brutal African
> warlord from killing more innocent children. And they even took
> thirty minutes out of their busy schedules to watch a movie about
> dude. They bought t-shirts. Some bracelets. Even tweeted at Rihanna
> to take a stance. But, a 17 year old American kid is followed and
> then ultimately killed by a neighborhood vigilante who happens to be
> carrying a semi-automatic weapon and my white friends are quiet.
> Eerily quiet. Not even a trending topic for the young man.
>
> We've heard the 911 calls. We seen the 13 year old witness. We've
> read the letter from the alleged killer's father. We listened to the
> anger of the family's attorney. We've felt the pain of Trayvon's
> mother. For heaven's sake, for 24 hours he was a deceased John Doe at
> the hospital because even the police couldn't believe that maybe he
> LIVES in the community. There are still some facts to figure out.
> There are still some questions to be answered. But, let's be clear.
> Let's be very, very clear. Before the neighborhood watch captain,
> George Zimmerman, started following him against the better judgement
> of the 911 dispatcher. Before any altercation. Before any
> self-defense claim. Before Travyon's cries for help were heard on the
> 911 tapes. Before the bullet hit him dead in the chest. Before all
> of this. He was suspicious. He was suspicious. suspicious. And you
> know, like I know, it wasn't because of the hoodie or the jeans or the
> sneakers. Cause I had on that same outfit yesterday and no one called
> 911 saying I was just wandering around their neighborhood. It was
> because of one thing and one thing only. Trayvon is black.
>
> So I've made the choice today to tell my white friends that the rights
> I take for granted are only valid if I fight to give those same rights
> to others. The taxi cab. The purse. The meal. The police car. The
> police. These are all things I've taken for granted.
>
> So, I fight for Trayvon Martin. I fight for Amadou Diallo. I fight
> for Rodney King. I fight for every young black man who looks
> "suspicious" to someone who thinks they have the right to take away
> their freedom to walk through their own neighborhood. I fight against
> my own stereotypes and my own suspicions. I fight for people whose
> ancestors built this country, literally, and who are still treated
> like second class citizens. Being quiet is not an option, for we have
> been too quiet for too long.
>
> -Michael Skolnik
>
> Michael Skolnik is the Editor-In-Chief of GlobalGrind.comand the
> political director to Russell Simmons. Prior to this, Michael was an
> award-winning filmmaker. Follow him on twitter @MichaelSkolnik

[Mosiah]

The rights I take for granted are only valid if I fight to give those same rights
to others.

Some a wi need to undastan dis. Thank God for Dr. Carolyn Gomes and JFJ!

[Muadib]

No sweat. how often do 'we' have to worry about Soldiers and Police shooting up Kirkland Heights.. ???

Once in a lifetime ting dat.. ebryting criss..

[Willi]

So now that the only Garrison has been smashed why is crime still a huge problem and is even moving towards hitting new records? Jamaica is paradise now, no? We have the best guvvament in di wirl, nuh true?

If you cant see that the problem is nigh universal and includes both parties virtually equally, then you are an enabler. Our ticians are dibby dibby, Mi tired fi tell unno dat. I wonder if some people here know what good guvvament constitutes?

[Mosiah]

They found 4 guns, Willi. And may have killed 73 innocent people. The capture of Tivoli was anticlimactic. If that don't tell you something...

[Willi]

Mo,

U still dont get me. I aint defending none-ah-dem.

Jack mandora!

Dem all full of it.

Jamaica deserves better.

Mek wi see if Portia will try raise di game...

[Mosiah]

so who am i defending?

[Willi]

Not who...what!

The effery system where one side pretend fi be better dan the other.

Total samfie.

[Mosiah]

The recognition of TG as the massive cancer that it was does not diminish the contribution to crime and other social ills of the others.

[Willi]

still enabling...