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No blacks on Jury liberals complain..... But they don't know
Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2013 7:15 pm
by _ldsfaqs
1. Blacks are a low percentage of the population in the county where the trial occured, thus the likelyhood of getting a black juror was low.
2. The Prosecutor dismissed a black potential juror because he watched Fox News.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-shepp ... z2ZEFaq3iTReally shows you the liberal mindset.
Re: No blacks on Jury liberals complain..... But they don't
Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2013 1:25 am
by _Brackite
Also From NewsBusters.org: MSNBC’s Roberts on Zimmerman Verdict: ‘There’s a Lot of White Shame Today’
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In the wake of the jury’s "not guilty" verdict in the George Zimmerman second-degree murder trial, numerous voices in the liberal media have been railing against supposed racism in our justice system and American society in general. But for MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts, the verdict is not merely a message about race relations in America; it is a commentary on the status of all Americans who are different.
Filling in as host on Sunday’s Weekends with Alex Witt, Roberts, an openly gay white anchor, was moderating a discussion of the Zimmerman case when he decided to jump in with commentary of his own. Addressing colleague Melissa Harris-Perry, who hosts a weekend program on the network and who happens to be black, Roberts declared, “I'll say it, honestly, there's a lot of white shame today.”
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Having said that, Roberts tried to pile more shame onto his fellow white Americans: “And while we look at lady justice and she's supposed to be blind, it’s like, what are we saying about the life of this kid being disposable?”
Of course, Trayvon Martin’s life was not disposable. A jury simply could not find enough evidence to convict George Zimmerman of either second-degree murder or manslaughter. Roberts’ rhetorical question sounds like it comes from the “society doesn’t care about black people” school of thought.
The host then expanded the conversation beyond race to make it about every American who is different, or an "other." Roberts bemoaned what he called the “otherness factor” that made Zimmerman suspicious of Martin. He issued a dire warning to Americans who belong to minority groups:
"[I]f you're an ‘other’ out there, be worried. And this means not just black. If you're LGBT, if you’re Hispanic, if you're different, it's an ‘otherness’ factor. And there's a privilege that goes into a certain mindset in this country, and if you're different, then you're bad."
It seems funny that Roberts should mention Hispanics as "others" when Zimmerman, the acquitted in this case, was himself a Hispanic (his mother is Peruvian). But it’s not surprising to see him try to tie homosexuals to blacks in the “persecuted minority” category, considering that Roberts is a notable homosexual. This feels like yet another push for the identity politics that liberals love so much and which is MSNBC's bread and butter of late.
From Wikipedia: George Michael Zimmerman was born on October 5, 1983, in Manassas, Virginia,[31] and is the son of Gladys (née Mesa) Zimmerman, who was born in
Peru,[32] and Robert Zimmerman, Sr., a retired Virginia magistrate.[33][34] He was raised as a
Catholic,[32] in a family that his father has described as "multiracial;" his father is a white American of German descent[35] and his mother is
Peruvian with some black ancestry through her
Afro-Peruvian maternal grandfather.[32][Note 3] Zimmerman's voter registration record lists him as Hispanic and a registered
Democrat.[36][37]
... Zimmerman's father is white and his mother is a Hispanic from Peru. Zimmerman's ancestry includes an Afro-Peruvian great-grandfather.[32]