25.I have been going through the Tampa Bay Times’ database of supposedly “stand your ground cases.” if you follow this link you will get the third installment of that analysis.

Of particular interest is the Murdock case, where a black man shot an unarmed white man… and was never even charged with a crime. Basically he was treated like Zimmerman, with a little custodial interrogation and then when they felt good about the story they let him go… only in Zimmerman’s case, there was a racist uproar, while in Murdock’s case, there wasn’t. So Murdock has lived a relatively normal life since then and Zimmerman was still charged anyway, put through a ridiculous trial, might face federal charges and might very well get lynched.

menostupid, this TalkLeft post has links to phone records.

In one of his post-verdict interviews, RZjr said he hopes that GZ will "destroy" the gun he used [to save his own life]. I have mixed feelings about that, obviously. What do you think?

LSM continues to lie.

"The police dispatcher told Zimmerman to stay in his car."

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/20 ... servations

"When we signed on to do reality shows that fed into the media's stereotypes of black men, we ingrained an image of Trayvon Martin so overwhelming that who he actually may have been didn't matter"

Actually, acceptance and glorification of the thug lifestyle by the media and thug music helped to create Trayvon, not stereotype him.

Our kids aren't and weren't (for the now adults) allowed to listen to thug music, or to idolize that lifestyle.

How the Media Has Distorted a Tragedy

A week after George Zimmerman’s acquittal in the fatal shooting of black teenager Trayvon Martin, the backlash continues, with nationwide protests and calls to boycott Florida. President Obama spoke some undeniable truths when he noted that the African-American community’s reaction must be seen in the context of a long, terrible history of racism. But there is another context too: that of an ideology-based, media-driven false narrative that has distorted a tragedy into a racist outrage.

This narrative has transformed Zimmerman, a man of racially mixed heritage that included white, Hispanic and black roots (a grandmother who helped raise him had an Afro-Peruvian father), into an honorary white male steeped in white privilege. It has cast him as a virulent racist even though he once had a black business partner, mentored African-American kids, lived in a neighborhood about 20 percent black, and participated in complaints about a white police lieutenant’s son getting away with beating a homeless black man.

This narrative has perpetuated the lie that ...

President Obama spoke some undeniable truths when he noted that the African-American community’s reaction must be seen in the context of a long, terrible history of racism.