This is a pantload...

Pardon me for saying so, but this is just incredible bull shit.  I hate that I am linking it, but it is better than cutting and pasting such drivel.

There are those who will never believe that the Zimmerman case had nothing to do with race, but with crime.  Please note that the white criminal in my post about a car-jacking was wearing a hoodie.  Wonder why?  Seems a viable way to obscure one's identity?  Could it be criminal garb, not black garb?

If the Zimmerman/Martin case had anything to do with race, it is just as likely it was in Martin's mind.  There are those who have to believe that they are hunted, beleaguered and down-trodden and that they are victims; perhaps since "I am black, I am being followed for no good reason.  I will visit violence on this [white] man in revenge for all the wrongs I have been taught to carry with me".  That sense of victimhood helps one believe they are justified, they can do no wrong, that wrong comes to them at the hand of oppressors.  They will stay where they are out of fear of being something else.

I fear a world where people have to create superstitions to justify misbehavior, no matter the color of the perpetrator's skin.  A world where people do contortions to explain what happens when one man assaults another, forcing him to defend himself and commit harm that I am sure he never wanted to commit.  Such superstitions will only perpetuate the divide they so vociferously pretend to decry; the goal is not to eliminate divisions, but to change the power within the divisions.

How little such small minded people know of how other people think or work.  How much they project their own fears, own inadequacies on others.  How melodramatic they become so that they can either assuage their own misguided guilt or maintain their victimhood, which seems their only cause celeb.  How much they ascribe their own motives to others.  "We view ourselves as victims, therefore you must be an oppressor".  Alas, it is not so.

“The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder’s lack of rational conviction.” — Bertrand Russell