Proudly shooting black kids in the Rosewood genocide state

In 1923, white racists in Florida destroyed the town of Rosewood, justifying their siege and slaughter by pretending the Blacks were the racists and the Whites had a right to defend their values by killing.  Not much has changed.

If a big Black man shot an unarmed White kid, imagine what the trial would look like.  The big Black man would probably do whatever it took to avoid a trial and public outrage.  He certainly wouldn’t think he could pull off a defense that a White kid with a candy bar put him in fear for his life before he shot the boy.  That would be a ludicrous defense.  So why is the news media making the big armed White man who shot the unarmed Black kid into a victim?  Maybe it’s because most of the news media is owned by big white racists.

You would think that Harriet Tubman and William Edward Burghardt Du Bois would be rolling over in their graves at the idea that the prosecution of a big White man for the killing of an unarmed Black child is a racist prosecution.  Racism is when you have the power (the gun) to harm a helpless individual (as in unarmed) and choose to follow that person around and shoot him because he’s Black.  Would Zimmerman have been following Martin if he were white?  Racism is not charging the white guy who killed the unarmed Black child because with first degree murder with special circumstances. 

Yes, according to Florida’s Secretary of State’s office, Trayvon Martin was a child.  He had plans, dreams and friends.  He might have grown up to be the doctor who would save your child’s life one day.

It is interesting that, when George Zimmerman had his neighbor Jonathon Manalo call Zimmerman’s wife,, Zimmerman was eager to have the neighbor tellthe wife that he had shot someone.    Was this a warning to the wife?  Was Zimmerman a particularly violent man who had just finished another fight before following and shooting a Black kid?   Did he ever shoot or mistreat anyone his own size?  Was the call actually a warning to the wife to not mess with her big powerful husband?  It’s amazing that anyone dared to testify for the prosecution in a community that where residents see Blacks as the enemy. The only cold hard fact we have to go on and can trust is that an armed White guy, who seemed cool and calm, shot an unarmed Black kid, who only had a candy bar and a cell phone. 

The whole tenor of the trial shows what is wrong with racism in America.  To those who don’t believe racism is alive and well, look at all the people defending and excusing the killing of an unarmed Black kid by an armed big White guy.  And why was it initially so hard to get Florida’s 4th Circuit’s state’s attorney to charge Zimmerman with second degree murder when a Black man shooting a White kid would have been charged with first degree murder with special circumstances in most jurisdictions in this country?  Has anyone else noticed that the prosecutors don’t seem to be trying that hard to get a conviction?

The trial reminds me of the big men who beat up their little wives while claiming that the little wives deserved the beatings.  I’ve been on the other end of those beatings and I’ve been told that I provoked the beatings.  Among the numerous beatings I received was one where I wound up bleeding from the head, unable to stand and very dizzy after having had my head slammed against a door again and again.   I was told by my husband that anyone would kill me because I had stolen lettuce from the refrigerator.  In my defense, I took the lettuce to feed to my vegan daughter, whom my husband had said would not be allowed to eat that night but I tossed it back after I was told at high volume that I would die.  My husband was shocked when the judge slapped him with a permanent restraining order after he explained that I had taken his lettuce.  Similarly, Trayvon Martin is being treated as having provoked his own shooting by a man who followed him around with a gun and later shot him.

According to the testimony of Jonathon Manalohttp://www.wftv.com/news/news/zimmerman-trial-over-teens-death-enters-day-14/nYYMd/, Zimmerman was calm.    Manalo’s description of Zimmerman’s reaction to the incident is reminiscent of someone who had just thrown out the garbage.

The news media’s reaction to the Zimmerman trial reminds me of the reaction of the town of Sumner, Florida, to the false reasons the White townspeople felt justified in destroying the whole town of [url=http://www.displaysforschools.com/history.html t=_blank]Rosewood[/url], full of innocent African Americans, including women and children. 

Did an innocent Black kid deserve to die just because he was a Black kid who wandered through the wrong neighborhood?  Have Florida and America not progressed at all since Rosewood?   The verdict will be indicative of how ingrained racism is in America.  Are you a racist?  Where do you stand on this issue?

Watch the clip to the Rosewood movie showing the mindset of those who defend the killing of Trayvon Martin.  If you get a chance, rent or buy the movie Rosewood.  It’s an important part of the history of today’s racism in Florida and America.  Are you like the people in Sumner or do you care about what happened to Trayvon Martin?