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United States News Title: Look at me Look at me Shameless Obama uses tragic Death of Travor Martin (Reuters) - President Barack Obama weighed into the controversial killing of a black teenager in Florida in very personal terms on Friday, comparing the boy to a son he doesn't have and calling for American "soul searching" over how the incident occurred. Seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin, dressed in a "hoodie" sweatshirt, was shot dead a month ago in Sanford, Florida by a 28-year-old white Hispanic neighborhood watch volunteer who said he was acting in self-defense. "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon," Obama said in his first comments about the shooting, acknowledging the racial element in the case. "Obviously, this is a tragedy," Obama told reporters. "I can only imagine what these parents are going through. And when I think about this boy, I think about my own kids." The case has rippled across the nation and prompted rallies protesting the failure of the police to arrest the shooter, George Zimmerman, and, more broadly, a pattern of racial discrimination black leaders cite in Sanford and elsewhere in the country. Obama, the first black U.S. president, made his remarks at a White House event to announce his pick to lead the World Bank, waiting briefly after the announcement to take a reporter's question about the incident. Martin's parents thanked the president for his words. "The president's personal comments touched us deeply and made us wonder: If his son looked like Trayvon and wore a hoodie, would he be suspicious too?," they said in a statement. Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law allows people to use deadly force in self-defense. Similar laws are in effect in at least 24 states including Florida, according to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. Calls are mounting to repeal them. Earlier this week, a Florida state senator said he was drafting new legislation to drastically change the law in Florida. A South Carolina state representative said on Friday he had introduced a bill to repeal his state's law. Bakari Sellers, a black Democrat and gun owner, said he wanted to prevent an incident like the Trayvon Martin shooting happening in his state. "I'm six-five and a black guy," he said. "I just know that it could have been me." Obama said the "Stand Your Ground" laws should be studied. "I think all of us have to do some soul-searching to figure out how does something like this happen. And that means that examine the laws and the context for what happened, as well as the specifics of the incident," he said. "Every parent in America should be able to understand why it is absolutely imperative that we investigate every aspect of this, and that everybody pulls together -- federal, state and local -- to figure out exactly how this tragedy happened." RACIAL DIVIDES Obama, the son of a white mother from Kansas and black father from Kenya, is often hesitant to reflect on race, a sensitive topic in the United States, which still grapples with a legacy of slavery, segregation and discrimination. Early in his White House tenure, Obama inflamed another racially tinged incident after that declaring police had "acted stupidly" when arresting a well-known black documentary filmmaker, Henry Louis Gates, after an altercation at his home. He later invited Gates and the white police officer, Sergeant James Crowley, to the White House, where the men shared a drink in what became known as Obama's "beer summit." In Sanford, Norton Bonaparte Jr., the city's manager, acknowledged that tensions between the black community and police "go back many, many years." "The trust that existed is gone, so we have to start from ground zero," he said. Sanford's police chief and a Florida state prosecutor overseeing the case stepped aside on Thursday as criticism grew over the police handling of the investigation. The U.S. Justice Department is also investigating. Senior officials from the department met with the Martin family in Florida on Thursday, along with their lawyer. A Justice Department spokeswoman said early in the week that they must collect evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that there was intent to violate civil rights laws. A Florida college announced it had suspended Zimmerman's enrollment. Zimmerman was working toward an associates degree in arts at Seminole State College in Sanford. He previously earned a vocational certificate in an insurance field, the school said. "Due to the highly charged and high-profile controversy involving this student, Seminole State has taken the unusual but necessary step this week to withdraw Mr. Zimmerman from enrollment," a statement dated Thursday said. Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, the frontrunner in the Republican race to be nominated to face Obama in the November 6 presidential election, added his voice to the issue as well. "What happened to Trayvon Martin is a tragedy. There needs to be a thorough investigation that reassures the public that justice is carried out with impartiality and integrity," Romney said. (additional reporting by Jeremy Pelofsky, Steve Holland, Deborah Charles, Samson Reiny, Kevin Gray, Harriet McLeod and Colleen Jenkins; editing by Mary Milliken and David Brunnstrom)
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Race war? Martial Law? Suspended Elections? Who Knows? Random Thoughts! Obama is fanning the flames of racial animosity, hate, confusion and MOB RULE among our black communities. The media-whore-in-chief, for his own political agenda, has come forward and taken it upon himself to begin a Trial in the Court of Public Opinion against this man before there has been a full investigation, or even before there's been an arrest and charges made. His winks and nods (obvious silence) ...to the likes of Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton,...Louis Farrakhan and the MOBS they control will surely attempt to deprive this man his right to full investigation, and a fair trial by a jury of his peers. Obama never does anything without an ulterior motive, it's never been about the other guy, everything is about him, and what's in it..for him. His back does seem to be up against a wall right now, all the money he has spent, and lies he's told didn't make his detracters go away, so now they are very close to exposing his fraud, his guilt, for High Crimes and Misdemeanors, he could even be looking at arrested and prison, what better excuse could he find than now, while he still has the power, to agitate a race war, declare Martial Law, and Suspend Elections? This distraction might work in his favor, then again, it might be the last nail in his coffin.
Imagine Hernando County Florida 1929. Imagine today. The only difference? We don't call it Lynching now. The Argus devoted even less space to the December 1926 lynching of a black man who had been arrested on suspicion of stealing two pistols: "Hopes of finding "Smokey' White alive were abandoned Saturday after a posse had made a forty-eight hour search for him following his abduction by a band of masked whites." 1928: The Brooksville Journal reported the death of a black laborer, Abner Wright, who it said started a fight in a rock mine's laborer's quarters and then threatened to stab a white supervisor, G.L. Ghiotto, who had tried to break it up. "Mr. Ghiotto was compelled to draw his revolver and shoot the Negro in order that his own life might not be in jeopardy," the paper reported.
The problem now for the New Dixiecrats is that: 1)MLK is a Nat'l Holiday. 2)Blacks have never forgotten history. 3)And this 'lynching shite' ain't happenin'. Somebody's gonna pay and quick....;} "Friday, March 23, 2012 THE TREYVON MARTIN CASE I will not undertake to explain the facts of this case to those of you who are unfamiliar with it. You can Google it to find out. I simply want to say this: The pundit commentary has been ignorant and historically blind. This is not a hate crime. It is a lynching, legally authorized by the laws of Florida, signed into law by that supposedly sound, sensible mature Republican, Jeb Bush. I do not know how long it will be before the Black community concludes that it must take its defense into its own hands. And they will be right. Posted by Robert Paul Wolff at 5:20 PM
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