Op-ed by Peter Children –
At 10PM Saturday evening, July 13th, one of the greatest travesties ever to have occurred in America took place. George Zimmerman was found not guilty of murdering Trayvon Martin.
This “was” 17 year old youth, a child who was walking home, not bothering anyone, did nothing wrong, had no police record and had every right to be where he was. This tells us all that if you’re black you are not safe on the street after dark….it says you can be legally shot to death with impunity. This “used” to be America….oh, I forgot, it IS America, only a America wrapped tightly in a big white sheet.
What took place last night in Stanford, Florida shook my faith to the very core; when the verdict was read aloud and the words not guilty came across the room, I was immediately overwhelmed with a profound sadness. I distinctly remember this Northern section of this country and the unbelievable prejudice that was present in my own community….now this verdict tells me we are still where we started.
Racists from across the entire U.S sent Zimmerman in excess of $700,000.00 to afford a smoke and mirror team of litigators he otherwise couldn’t have afforded. And even at that, he tried to hide that money by putting it other accounts. The fact that the money was sent….by itself tells me how wide spread this cancer is. I know where I am at, I know where I live and I expect a deluge of “anonymous” response….but none of which will step in front of that white sheet and write their real name.
Peter Children
Back to Zimmerman. The fact that Zimmerman responded to a thug for his community/country puts him in high esteem. Right up there next to Patrick Henry, you know, “Give me liberty or give me death.” Only in Zimmerman’s case Martin forced him into “life or death.”
I am all for erecting a statue in Zimmerman’s honor.
Peter L. got you on that one. He certainly has you pegged. Must know you from way back I am thinking.
A rib tickler too!
Way to hung up on anonymity. Using your own name doesn’t give you the power you think it does! Oh, and your elevator appears broken also.
Words such as those I wrote, produced exactly the reaction I predicted. They evoked the true nature of the human make up that is implanted in the heart of each of us. More often than not the implantation took place in the home and was administrated by the parents with the father taking the lead. Furthermore I said no one would write their real name and I was right again. One of the excuses given was fear of threats…..well, my name is on everything I write; what does that say? Now go look in the mirror and tell me you like what you see. If you are not ashamed of the words you write and the opinions you put forth, then write your name. When you don’t you words lose 99% of their creditablity.
Recently a blog was removed because the content was unmistakenly driven by extreme hate. Was I surprised by it? No, I expected it….as I said, “it’s where I live.” More often than not comments that reach far down are born from envy and resentment and personal failure. If I were to profile this person I would say they are the type who have been degraded by their own family, by their peers and they hate the “establishment”, especially the medical field. And finally their elevator doesn’t go all the way to the top….a place they long for but will never reach.
Woke up this morning and the news says we have nationwide violence and protesting by folks who don’t like the verdict. Seems they want to “take the law into their own hands.”
Reminds me of the lynch mobs in those old western movies when folks would show up at the Sheriff’s office to take someone out and hang-em. Only this isn’t a movie, this is the real deal.
America is a ticking time bomb. We have the Democrats wanting Zimmerman’s hide so they can keep the blacks in their camp in the voting booth. Not a good thing and really, really poor leadership.
The hallmark of our society is the rule of law. It should go without saying that respecting the rule of law and the outcome, this verdict, is our duty.
The hallmark of our judicial system is a trial by jury of your peers. People called for Zimmerman’s arrest and called for him to have his day in court, and both of those things have come to pass.
Nothing is ever good enough for you Democrats and if things don’t go your way, then you pull out the hate card.
Well Pete, your op-ed has helped fan the flames of unrest.
Tick, Tick, Tick!
Don’t you Democrats get tired of ruining this country? You hate everything and anybody who does a good thing.
No wonder people associate Democrats with Hitler! Democrats are all destroyers of good.
Todd Blodgett ain’t taking no guff no more either…
FROM NIT STAFF: CLEAN UP YOUR COMMENTS OR FACE A LONG-TERM BAN
Quote: “It was nothing about racism. It was about the community being robbed and broken into, and one man stood up. The state should be giving this man an award, and instead they took him to trial.”
Amen to this!
Peter…. Once again you’ve written something that you knew in advance would really stir the pot. How, or in what ways are you compensated for the “Op-ed material” that you submit to NIT?
If anyone was a racist in this instance it was you Peter. Zimmerman is half Mexican which makes him Hispanic. Race had nothing to do with it. Martin “who was a adult” as his actions proved, attacked Zimmerman and he paid for it with his life. If people like you were not enabling these people all of the time possibly he would have walked away and still been alive today. The prosecution had no proof, no witnesses and no case. It never should have gone to court. If you don’t like the laws then change them but don’t fault people who obey them.
Pete,
To respond to your last point:
To infer that anyone who does not blog or respond with their real name is a racist (hiding behind a sheet) is also over the top.
You know full well that people live in fear of reprisals for speaking out.
This site is about discussion and opinions. I do not need to know “who” it is that is responding.
It’s better this way. You or no one else can profile, racially or otherwise. We stick to issues, opinions and hopefully honest logic “without prejudice.”
The State presented a pathetic case, from the initial charges to witness after witness. What a joke. Zimmerman was not the bad guy, the State of Florida failed.
Hey Black America, it isn’t about race anymore. The popular thing now is religious profiling. Get with it.
Also Pete,
Martin could have walked away instead of picking a fight.
If Zimmerman started the fight (which the facts say he didn’t) Martin could have run away. He didn’t, he put himself in this situation. Race was not involved at this point.
Carping about $700,000.00 is silly. $700,000.00 is peanuts when you put it in perspective. There are over 300 million people in this country. That is less than .002 cents per person.
To say people are “racists” for donating money to someone they feel has been wronged is nonsense. Calling them racists puts you in the same category you are tying to label them with. Your racist profiling.
Like I said, you defy logic here. Your article is the pot calling the kettle black.
Pete,
You defy logic!!
Travon Martin was not a child. He was a pre-adult aka young man. He had already stated down the path to his demise.
I was in the Marine Corp at 17 serving my country. I was sexually active at 17. I had bought and paid for my first car with my own money at 17.
No Pete, this Martin fellow was making adult decisions and listened to no one. Go talk to his parents. If they will be honest with you, they will tell you the same thing I just told you.
Joshua Chellew was a 36 year old Georgia man who gave a ride to a 19 year old female friend to a Chevron station in Mableton Parkway. That would prove fatal as four blacks jumped Joshua Chellew, beat him unconscious, tossed him in to traffic, and got run over and died. This is yeat another fine example of national media bias. If the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin case is so big because of the ‘race’ factor, then why in the hell isn’t the Joshua Chellew murder in Georgia newsworthy in the national media? Four black ‘teens’ have been arrested, but if you read the NBC Atlanta news report, you wouldn’t know the four thugs were black.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvtHP_r2hV0
There was another travesty long before that one. Peter Children was hatched !!
Apparantly,
Peter Children did not watch the trial.The defense blew holes a semi could drive thru the states case.Also,in this country you must be convicted “beyond a reasonable doubt”.This burden was not met.Just because in your opinion Zimmerman did it,does not mean the state proved it beyond a reasonable a doubt.
Pete, if I use your head as a basketball and you have a pistol in your pocket are you going to use it? The letter of the law was followed. Quit blaming Zimmerman and change the law if you have issues with it! Moral of the story, just mind your own business!! That should be the first thing out of Black America’s mouth. To help paint this picture here is a question: Black America unemployment rate has been nearly double the unemployment rate of whites. Why then isn’t Black America voicing opposition to the immigration bill?
Trayvon could have just walked home instead of turning back to get Zimmerman.
tl;dr you are dumb.