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Title: Jessie Jackass: Blacks Are Under Attack
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Los Angelas Times
URL Source: http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/ ... ckson-20120323,0,2131299.story
Published: Mar 23, 2012
Author: Rene Lynch
Post Date: 2012-03-23 19:44:52 by A K A Stone
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Views: 9577
Comments: 23
Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson said Friday that he's grateful the rest of the country has sat up and taken notice of the tragic slaying of Trayvon Martin. But he can't help but wonder: Why has it taken so long for everyone else to recognize the chronic injustices that African Americans face? "We're surprised that everyone else is surprised," Jackson told the Los Angeles Times. African Americans have tried for decades to get the rest of America to understand their plight, he said, particularly their beliefs that justice is still elusive in many parts of America, especially the Deep South. Then along comes the Trayvon Martin case, and facts that are not in contention: Volunteer neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman pursued and then gunned down the unarmed 17-year-old last month, and never faced arrest because police said there was no evidence to contradict his claim that he fired in self-defense. "I hope that this will be a transformative moment," Jackson said. Jackson was speaking Friday morning from the Chicago offices of his Rainbow PUSH Coalition. He had just returned from duties in Belgium and Switzerland. He was in Geneva on Wednesday as part of a delegation of religious leaders trying to find a way to end the violence in Syria. Jackson was preparing to get back on a plane for a flight south so he can add his voice to the growing protests in and around Sanford, Fla., where Martin's shooting took place. Jackson said the Martin case is getting plenty of media attention overseas, attention that is both embarrassing to white America and humiliating to black America. Moreover, he said, the failure to make an arrest in the case takes away the nation's "moral authority" to address injustices in other countries when it fails to do the same within its own borders. Jackson predicted that the protests will continue to multiply in number and that the ranks of protestors will swell until Zimmerman is arrested. "As long as he is outside of the court system, the protests will intensify and spill over into other dimensions," Jackson said. "His lack of appearance in the court system is a source of embarrassment and humiliation. He needs to face the court." Jackson said that there is a mistaken assumption in some corners of America that all racial problems went away with the election of President Obama. "There was this feeling that we were kind of beyond racism," he said. "That's not true. His victory has triggered tremendous backlash." He added: "Blacks are under attack." African American families are facing record home foreclosures and unemployment. Their children are burdened with student loan debt. States, particularly conservative ones, are passing voter laws that leaders know will disenfranchise blacks and other minorities. Meanwhile, the nation's prisons are brimming with black faces, he said, and their numbers that suggest that the legal system is quicker to send blacks to prison than whites. Jackson said gunfire in America continues to be a problem for all Americans -- not just blacks. Why, he asked, isn't America outraged, that far more people die of gun violence in one year in America than the number of soldiers killed in the wars waged in Iraq and Afghanistan? "Our disparities are great," he said. "Targeting, arresting, convicting blacks and ultimately killing us is big business." Jackson said he also wants to see the Martin protests accomplish something else beyond justice for the slain teen's family. He said he wants the repeal of Florida's controversial "stand your ground" law, which gives legal protection to people who fight back in self-defense. Some believe that the Florida police were nodding to that law when they declined to arrest Zimmerman after the Feb. 26 shooting. Many other states have similar statutes, Jackson said, and he wants them all repealed, starting with Florida's. "No justice, no peace," he said. "The indifference to this kind of pain is just going to intensify the protests."
Poster Comment: Assholes like this are going to harm Trayvon Martins case. The Jackass should just go back to Chicago and one of his hoes.
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#1. To: A K A Stone, *Arab Spring Jihad* (#0)
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Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
Tampa. Home to the GOP Convention. Perfect....;} ""Remember, this was a tiny county at the time," said Gary Mormino, a professor of Florida studies at the University of South Florida. "(The rate in) Hernando County is just astronomically high." In recent weeks, the Senate has apologized for failing to pass antilynching legislation; a Mississippi judge sentenced Edgar Ray Killen to 60 years in prison for the 1964 slaying of three civil rights workers; and Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist reopened the investigation of the 1951 killing of Brevard County civil rights leader Harry T. Moore and his wife, Harriette. One elected official believes it's also time for Hernando to own up to its history of racial brutality, which the St. Petersburg Times began investigating after the Senate apology. "When national leaders are apologizing, and then you find out that the county you live in is the leader in this atrocity, it would be wrong for us to do nothing and to say nothing," said county Commissioner Diane Rowden, who is preparing a resolution condemning the violence. But Charlie Batten, 90 years old and white, waved his hand dismissively when he was asked about the lynchings of the 1920s. "You mean the hanging times," he said. "There ought to be more of it going on now, Ku Klux Klan, too. A lot of those people need a good whipping."
Reuse or republish Subscribe to the Times Past pain still present A study of recorded lynchings in Hernando County reveals it had the highest per capita rate of violence against blacks in the United States. By DAN DeWITT, Times Staff Writer Published July 5, 2005 BROOKSVILLE - In 1929, a 19-year-old black man named Carl Lang was arrested for shooting into a deputy sheriff's apartment above a country store in Hernando County. Lang was briefly jailed and then, as he walked home, grabbed by a mob of white men on horseback. In what is now the Withlacoochee State Forest, "they put (Lang) on a horse and tied a noose around him and popped his neck and then put his body down on the ground," said Mable Sims, 58, whose great-aunt was Lang's mother. "They put lighter stumps on him and built a fire. ... They danced and drank moonshine while this black man lay down and his bones turned to ashes." Lang's death was one of as many as seven lynchings in Hernando from 1900 to 1931 - more per capita than any county in the nation, according to the most reliable statistics available. Especially shocking, historians say, is that racial terrorism here peaked in the late 1920s, when lynchings were in sharp decline across the country.
Watch the Newtster re Form the Dixiecrat Party now....LMFAO Strom and Newt and Theodore Bilbo would've been bestest buddies....8D
Does the lynching and burning of a black guy in 1929 justify the same for a Latino in 2012? You like lynching if the guy's not black enough? Have another shot of moonshine and break out your bic lighter. Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
'justify' is the wrong word. Ignorance knows no race. As I rembember diane Sawyer, the first day, when she was really cautious, and didn't know whcih way this was going, call Zimmerman a 'neighborhood 'watch dog'....;} The Gated Communities are calling the shots here. I'm telling you that these Florida crackers haven't changed at all. Take their Happy Motoring, Nascar, Convenient Grocery Stores, and houses away and you're right back in the middle 1929 Florida.
1929 Florida: "1929: Along with cursory reports of Lang's killing, papers in February 1929 carried much longer accounts of the lynching of Buster Allen, 18, accused of raping a white girl in the town of Croom, now part of the Withlacoochee State Forest. Because of the threat of mob violence, a Citrus County newspaper reported, Allen was taken to a jail in Hillsborough County. Six days later, a group of Hernando residents posing as deputies produced a statement from Sheriff Cobb authorizing Allen's release. The men then drove Allen back to Hernando, shot him numerous times, and hung his body near Croom, on what was then a main highway to Tampa. Cobb told the paper the authorization had been forged, but the Hillsborough jailer said that it was typed on Sheriff's Office stationery and that, before releasing Allen, the jailer had carefully examined Cobb's signature to make sure it was authentic. Nevertheless, the paper reported, a grand jury "found no evidence for an indictment and adjourned on Thursday." Anita Bryant would be right at home. 'Come to the Florida Sunshine Tree! Best tastin' orange juice naturally! 9D
Nice overt/covert middle finger salute from the shake down artist and race pimp.
war has to do something for entertainment; the voices in his head aren't speaking to him and his imaginary friends have found reasons not to come over anymore.
Some things just never change and Jesse Jackson is one of them, terminally stupid!!! I wonder how many things he has to show his ID for??? I wonder if he and Al are still having buffarillo parties???? "If you voted for Obama in 2008 to prove you're not a racist, you'll need to vote for someone else in 2012 to prove you're not an idiot."
How about Tawana Brawley, the Duke Lacrosse ho and the recent parade of McDonald's patrons on youtube? Where would they feel most at home? Don't forget the AC Transit 'amberlamps'. He'd fit right in, wouldn't you say?
war has to do something for entertainment; the voices in his head aren't speaking to him and his imaginary friends have found reasons not to come over anymore.
Let's not forget about O.J. creeping around his ex's place in a hoodie, before he murdered her. Blacks commit murders and other violent crimes way out of proportion to their numbers in society. Everyone knows this. It's not irrational to be leery of an unknown black, male, teenager walking around your neighborhood at night. Here's the magic question: why was this kid walking in this neighborhood? Did he live in the neighborhood? Did he have friends in the neighborhood? Why was he there? That question hasn't been answered yet. There is no evidence to corroborate or refute Zimmerman's story, yet the Race Pimps like Jackson and Sharpton have already pronounced him guilty and are using it to stir up racial hatred. Zimmerman might be in the wrong. We won't know until there is an investigation, a trial and a verdict. That's the bottom line.
I agree with your sentiments. These events are used to whip up feelings of persecution in the black community. I think this is also going to turn out to be another case of jumping the gun and when the facts come out Barry Soetoro is going to be remembered as being one of the first to side with the usual suspects in the race card throwers. Whatever the truth of this matter, it has already been reduced from a possible crime to a political football. This country cannot survive much more of this and the Alinskyites are betting on this.
war has to do something for entertainment; the voices in his head aren't speaking to him and his imaginary friends have found reasons not to come over anymore.
The police investigation is completed, no one was charged with a crime.
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
Did he live in the neighborhood? Did he have friends in the neighborhood? Why was he there? That question hasn't been answered yet. Apparently you don't read much. He went to the store during half-time of the NBA All Star game to get a snack - Skittles and ice tea. He ended up dead/killed/shot/murdered - take your pick.
The lead investigator initially was a narcotics detective when a homicide lead would have been more appropriate.
You're just about as racist as they come, rud. Keep workin' on it in Boise or wherever the hell it is that you live that only has White Christian ZioFundies. Manhattan West? 8D Falls Church?
And this is exactly what hondo, rud, A K A, don't and will not get. The police/LE are NOT seen as a neutral party. Which is why this thing is going national. It's no more local than the Occupy Movement. "Racism in the community Historians offer several possible explanations for the vicious racism in Hernando. It was an isolated county populated mostly by poor farmers who tended to view African-Americans as an economic threat; it was ruled by a sheriff who seemed to foster the Wild West atmosphere that was partly to blame for the state's generally high rate of racial violence. "Brooksville (Florida, just about 20 miles North of Tampa;) was so bad, you wouldn't hardly go uptown on a Friday or Saturday night without a pistol," said Neil Law Jr., 87. "(Cobb) was just one of those old frontier guys who would shoot you first and then talk to you later," said Chan Springstead, 80, whose grandfather, Warren Springstead, a dairy farmer, was one of two prominent white residents shot and killed by Cobb. But whatever the original source, Arsenault said, intimidation and oppression often lead to more of the same; racism becomes part of a community's character. "It can take on a life of its own," he said. "It just becomes the way people do things." In Brooksville, in the 1920s, Ku Klux Klan parades were cause for civic celebration, and one of them, in 1923, drew more than 1,000 spectators, the Argus reported. "This was the largest crowd yet witnessed in the city." In 1928, th e Journal added disapproving commentary to a front-page news story from Okeechobee about a rally for black supporters of Democratic presidential nominee Al Smith: "No good can come from inciting the Negroes to enter politics. ... Negroes have never voted in this county and white people and Negroes have always gotten along very well."
No good can come from inciting the Negroes This is going national because there's a racist race-pimp in the WH, and AG Eric Holder is the same. IMO Obama was nearly certain of being reelected, until he pulled this latest racist stunt. Played the race card once too often. The dumb-ass didn't learn anything at the beer summit.
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
Or spam.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
No. An observation backed up by empiric evidence is not spam. Only to a multiple personality disordered troll and bomb-throwing anarchist like you is it spam. Keep that dust aloft and you might get an autographed picture of your favorite anti-Christs.
war has to do something for entertainment; the voices in his head aren't speaking to him and his imaginary friends have found reasons not to come over anymore.
Spam
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
OK, I get it. You're getting even. That's what lieberalism is all about: getting even; not justice or even whats right. Idiot.
war has to do something for entertainment; the voices in his head aren't speaking to him and his imaginary friends have found reasons not to come over anymore.
More spam
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
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"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#2. To: A K A Stone (#0)
#3. To: hondo68 (#1)
#4. To: All (#3)
#5. To: mcgowanjm (#3)
They put lighter stumps on him and built a fire. ... They danced and drank moonshine
We've gone back to the pre civil-rights era where government openly endorses racial discrimination. Only the races have changed.
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#6. To: hondo68 (#5)
Does the lynching and burning of a black guy in 1929 justify the same for a Latino in 2012?
#7. To: All (#6)
#8. To: A K A Stone (#0)
#9. To: A K A Stone (#0)
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are passing voter laws that leaders know will disenfranchise blacks and other minorities.
#10. To: mcgowanjm (#7)
#11. To: Rudgear (#10)
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How about Tawana Brawley, the Duke Lacrosse ho and the recent parade of McDonald's patrons on youtube?
Iran’s main drive for acquiring atomic weapons is not for use against Israel but as a deterrent against U.S. intervention -- Major General Zeevi Farkash, head of the Israeli Military Intelligence Directorate
#12. To: jwpegler (#11)
#13. To: jwpegler (#11)
We won't know until there is an investigation, a trial and a verdict.
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#14. To: jwpegler (#11)
Here's the magic question: why was this kid walking in this neighborhood?
#15. To: hondo68 (#13)
The police investigation is completed, no one was charged with a crime.
#16. To: Rudgear (#10)
How about Tawana Brawley, the Duke Lacrosse ho and the recent parade of McDonald's patrons on youtube? Where would they feel most at home? Don't forget the AC Transit 'amberlamps'. He'd fit right in, wouldn't you say?
#17. To: Fred Mertz, hondo68 (#15)
The police investigation is completed, no one was charged with a crime.
#18. To: mcgowanjm (#17)
this thing is going national.
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#19. To: Rudgear (#8)
Nice overt/covert middle finger salute from the shake down artist and race pimp.
#20. To: mininggold (#19)
#21. To: Rudgear (#20)
No. An observation backed up by empiric evidence is not spam. Only to a multiple personality disordered troll and bomb-throwing anarchist like you is it spam. Keep that dust aloft and you might get an autographed picture of your favorite anti-Christs.
#22. To: mininggold (#21)
Spam
#23. To: Rudgear (#22)
OK, I get it. You're getting even. That's what lieberalism is all about: getting even; not justice or even whats right. Idiot.
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