Well, I don’t know what the result of the recent poll says about voter turnout, voter restrictions or voter fraud via refresh button, but it wasn’t even close. Personally, this serves as a conditioning exercise for an A-word verdict that I’d rather not type into existence.
Some of your comments displayed critical thinking and were worthy of a more intimate discussion. However, regarding the moment of universal speculation, the deductive reasoning seems purely based on a theory of being America’s Worst Nightmare. Young Black male who is 5’11” and weighs 155lbs equals a big black guy. He’s athletic so he’s stronger and faster. He smokes weed and has thuggish tendencies that can’t be dismissed as experimental teenage deviance hence he’s pre-destined for a life of crime. He’s a racist who calls White people “Creepy-Ass Crackers” and uses the N-word. He was minding his own business yet looked suspicious and dumb enough to rob (breaking and entering) or possibly rape (home invasion) the neighbors in his father’s complex. The fact that he was on the phone talking to a friend and didn’t say “I’ll call you back” and put the phone in his pocket, instead just dropped the phone on the wet grass ground; all of this seems to be stronger factors that lead to Trayvon Martin doubling back to sneak attack an unidentified predator, who we now know to be George Zimmerman, a stand-up guy trying to make a citizen’s arrest? Basically, Trayvon started the fight because niggas are known to go ape shit.
Whereas, someone who applied to be a cop, got rejected, befriended a cop who consulted in his decision to have a firearm, enrolled in school for criminal justice, was a good student with a firm understanding of self-defense laws, started a neighborhood watch, patrols in an unmarked truck, carries a concealed weapon, took mixed-martial arts classes 3 times a week, has a history of calling the non-emergency police line, displays signs of frustration and aggression while on the phone with the operator, disregarded instructions not to pursue the suspect (because he has a right to), changes the agreed meeting spot for the police, instead instructs them to call him when they get inside the community and he’ll tell them where he’s at, which defeats the whole purpose the police not knowing the layout of the complex, clearly wanted to take matters into his own hands even though a CRIME was NOT in progress; yet, the tables got turned, he was sucker-punched, over-powered due to his asthma, screamed at soprano pitch (btw, with the exception of torture, and unless your voice already sounds like Mike Tyson , Adrien Broner or Chris Tucker, it’s almost difficult for most grown men to scream “help” at that high octave, especially if you train in a blood sport and you’re only getting beat up by a adolescent boy #expertasswhipper), then, the high school ninja says “You’re gonna die muthafucker,” (which sounds like a line Hollywood casting agents ask black actors to read for the part of Thug #1) and although someone was in life-threatening pain and pinned down at the shoulders , the crafty crime fighter managed to draw his weapon, aim it at the heart and pull the trigger. Basically, we agree that an unarmed Trayvon should not be dead, but he is responsible for his own death because he started the fight and was winning in the fight?
I don’t know who started the fight and won’t get into the correlation between carrying a gun and wanting to use it, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the ringtone on George Zimmerman’s phone was the theme music to the TV show “Cops.”
T. Better Baldwin is a creative mercenary and ethical lobbyist who was born, raised and resides in New York City.
