I don't usually think about the color of someone's skin. Matter of fact the thought never really crosses my mind. Unless of course, I am slapped in the face with it. It is my opinion that a majority of Americans would agree.
So I have to ask the question: Since when did Americans start to exonerate and commemorate thugs, criminals, crack addicts, and theives because of the color of their skin?
I am talking about Rodney King here. Yahoo News basically idolizes and exonerates Rodney King in it's recent article " Rodney Kings Plea Measures His Lasting Meaning"(06.18.2012). Quoted from the article: "Twenty years later, Rodney King's simple yet profound question still lingers, from the street where Trayvon Martin died all the way to the White House".
Does anyone remember or even realize he was in a drug crazed frenzy when he took police on a citywide high speed automobile chase, putting thousands of people in harms way? Does anyone remember that he was on parole for robbing a convenience store and threatening the clerk with a metal pipe? Did they really have to drag Trayvon Martin into Rodney Kings death? The only similarities here are that they were both black and both cried "foul" because of it. The only reason Rodney King was found dead in the bottom of his own swimming pool (instead of a 5x5 jail cell ) is also because he was black. He was far from a "decent" man and had a life long track record to prove it.
Most ironic in the latter Trayvon Martin case, is that the other person involved ( George Zimmerman ) was of a mixed ethnic background. Even more ironic is civil rights leaders, the sensationalist media, and much of the public had already played judge and jury in condemming Zimmerman before ever hearing any evidence, and before he even said a word in his own defense. Even the pictures the media displayed of Trayvon were mis-guided and dated, in an attempt to make him "appear" to be an innocent choir boy type, (which was not the case from his Twitter account and other articles surfaced later).
Isn't this racist and discriminatory in itself? A definition of "discriminate" from Websters online as follows: "to make difference in treatment or favor on a basis other than individual merit".
Numerous unarmed people are shot and killed in this country everyday. Is it only when they are black and shot by a non black that the civil rights leaders and sensationalist media really care and take note?
These "Civil Rights Leaders" and sensationalist media outlets are feeding and keeping racism alive and well for their own benefit, profit, and self percieved "power" and "status". THEY are the ones who WILL NOT and CANNOT SURVIVE without it, unlike the rest of us as they want us to beleive.
Quite frankly I don't particularly care what color you are. If you break the law and get caught, you pay the price. NO EXCUSE! PERIOD!
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