I'll try to keep this very brief....
I'm not sure if you've read my previous blog titled "Just Stay in your Vehicle ", BUT.........
I was wondering how many people that supported George Zimmerman during his trial still believe he was such an upstanding citizen....
Zimmerman has had at least 2 violent episodes since being found Not Guilty for killing young, unarmed Trayvon Martin.
His now estranged wife even got a Protection from Abuse order against him.
What's he follow that up with?
Yep, you guessed it....
More violence!
Zimmerman reinforces what many suspected of him by getting arrested for shoving a shotgun in his new girlfriend's face and threatening her.
He is what I said he is...
A wolf in sheep's clothing.
Meanwhile we're learning that 14 year old George Stinney of Alcolu, South Carolina was wrongfully executed nearly 70 years ago for the unfortunate murders of 2 white girls.
His trial began and ended in ONE day!
He was executed(murdered) a mere 84 days after the girls' deaths.
Local rumor has it that there was a deathbed confession by the actual murderer.
Too little, too late.
The scales of justice often appear to be "out of order"
I'd like to mention a personal story....
In 1981, at the age of 14, I had a pistol barrel shoved in my mouth and was robbed of my
"Boom Box" just about a month after receiving it from my parents for Christmas.
I resisted as long as I could and had to weave side to side as I fled while being shot at.
I identified the gunman in the police mug shot book, his 4 accomplices remain unknown.
The 24 year old gunman was found Not Guilty mainly due to poor street lighting and walked.
I was terrified at that trial.
The gunman put on a VERY convincing act for the judge and jury.
In fact, a friend was with me when I was robbed but his family refused to let him testify as a witness.
Anyway, roughly 2 months after being found Not Guilty of robbing me, the same gunman was arrested for robbing a convenience store and shooting the cashier.
A wolf in sheep's clothing.
Thursday, November 21, 2013
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Just Stay In Your Vehicle!
America, let's talk....
My name is Terrance, I'm a 47 year old black male, former U.S. Marine, and son of a late U.S. Army Vietnam Veteran.
I grew up in central Pennsylvania immediately after the civil rights movement of the 1960's. For those of you that have never spent any significant time in central Pa., allow me to share my personal perspective with you.
Pennsylvania may be just north of the Mason-Dixon line but a large amount of it's residents are white, rural, and have SOUTH of the Mason-Dixon line beliefs, prejudices, and attitudes.
My childhood neighborhood was black, white, and Hispanic. The whites that remained in my urban neighborhood after the "white flight" exodus of the early 70's were either not wealthy enough to "escape" or they were genuinely comfortable with us blacks and Puerto Ricans.
The kids in my childhood neighborhood would all play together. Black, white, and brown. All was good between us kids. The problem was with some of the parents. My mother would give my friends and I soda, popsicles, candy, and juice regardless of their color or ethnicity. What hurt my feelings as a child was when I would go to one of my friends house and I wasn't allowed beyond the top of his porch steps, let alone inside their home. We'd play together in the hot summer sun and his mother would call him to their house and hand him something cold to drink and NEVER offer the black and brown kids with him a single thing.
I always considered myself lucky to grow up in a home where many shades of people would visit and party together on a regular basis. My parents didn't need to give my siblings and I speeches about treating people as individuals, we lived that reality everyday. Growing up the way I did would not allow me to judge entire groups as being monolithic. I saw good and/or bad from all walks of life as a kid. It's not in my make-up to make presumptions based solely on skin color.
For the last 20 years or so I've been telling friends and coworkers that it's virtually impossible for ANY minority to grow up in America and not have some sort of positive interaction with whites. On the other hand, a good number of white Americans go their entire lives without having to interact with a person of color. There's also a very large number of white Americans that only interact with minorities in the workplace, whether it's coworkers or the minority's place of employment.
And then there's television and movies.......
Sadly, for many whites, television and movies are their sole minority experience. That is NOT the place to get to know a person or a people. TRUST ME, it's not.
Television and movies have come a long way since the unabashed racism and fear mongering of "The Birth of a Nation" in 1915 but the same undertones are alive and well in certain segments of our society.
My late grandmother worked cleaning the homes of whites well into the late 1980's. In retrospect, it's almost comical because the majority of the homes she cleaned were very small and the women of the homes were housewives that sat home all day popping Valium and watching soap operas. There was and still is some serious self-aggrandizement lurking behind closed suburban doors. It was a status symbol to have "colored help", the same holds true in 2013, only the help is brown instead of black. A Latina makes it big in Hollywood and what does she turn around and do? She produces a stereotypical television series called "Devious Maids" years AFTER another accomplished Latina already produced "Ugly Betty" for American viewers without having to glorify negative stereotypes. We should be well beyond something like that happening! Did Tyler Perry HAVE to have a buffoonish black male character in the lead role in order to get his "Meet the Browns" green-lighted?
What does it say about our modern society when a company receives so many hate filled emails and comments on it's website that they decided to disable the comment section of their website? Why so many racist emails and comments on it's website? The company had the courage to cast an interracial family in a Cheerios commercial.
Really?
Absolutely.
It's true that modern television and movies do in fact show MANY more instances of interracial couples than in years past. It's not so offensive to many white males until it's a black/brown male coupled with a white woman. Not a day goes by without seeing a white male paired with a Asian, black, or Hispanic woman. It's prevalent on the big and small screens in today's America.
Those types of pairings are fine or tolerated by white men.. It's only a problem when they see us black/brown men being intimate with white women.
It seems that the Cheerios people went out of their way to shoot that controversial commercial in a way that the husband and wife were always far apart.
The focus for me was the absolutely beautiful bi-racial little girl that graced the screen.
Ignorance still prevailed.
This is the so called "melting pot" in 2013....sad but true.
It's not as if race mixing is a new phenomenon. Just ask anyone that is aware of Thomas Jefferson's sexual exploits. 3/5 of a woman was all he needed.
The point I'm trying to make is that between ignorance and the media's lopsided portrayal of black and brown people, a large number of white America has no idea that we are a group of individuals...period.
The Republicans and the fanatical Tea Party have been trying to scare white Americans into voting for anyone but the Democrats that are supposedly "giving our country away to the minorities, illegals, and the L.G.B.T. community". Amazing considering WASPs and white males still dominate the wealth of the world. You control the banks, you control the world. PERIOD.
I've heard some Hispanics and blacks say "we're taking over" America. That's just as ignorant as the whites that think they're "losing America".
The only people that "lost" America are the indigenous peoples. The Native Americans. PERIOD
America, does any of this make sense?
It has been 3 days since the Zimmerman/Martin verdict and the chasm between whites and blacks seems to be as wide as it's been in 40 plus years. The case is extremely polarizing to say the least. Many feel Zimmerman had no other option but to defend himself.
Really? No other option?
How about listening to the non-emergency operator that told Zimmerman to stay in his vehicle? That's ANOTHER option.
George Zimmerman's guilt began the moment he left his vehicle...PERIOD!
His actions were the chief cause of Trayvon Martin's death. He should have been held responsible since he initiated the confrontation that resulted in the death of a child on his way home from an innocent trip to the store.
Zimmerman stalked a 17 year old boy, got his a%# kicked, and then used everything but his 2 fists to match the physicality the 17 year old brought to the table. Cowards hide behind guns.
Just ask idiot hate-rocker Ted Nugent. I had coworkers that think he's a great American patriot. He feels that young Trayvon only got what he deserved.
In reality he's a COWARD that is obsessed with guns and killing animals for sport and profit.
I'm a black former Marine and Ted Nugent is a self-admitted feces & vomit covered DRAFT DODGER. Don't believe me? Google his September 1977 CREEM or October 1977 HIGH TIMES interviews and hear it from the horse's A#%, mouth, or whatever end his nonsense comes out of.
American patriot?
REALLY?
Nugent even went as far to say that he "would have been a Colonel in no time at all" Amazing, he has no idea how the whole Commissioned Officer thing works in MY military. What a joke of a man.
It's painfully obvious that this "Patriot" is only interested in "leisure camo" He soiled his pants for at least a week straight to avoid being issued authentic combat gear. Only another coward would idolize an idiot like Nugent.
A man stops shaving, bathing, and chooses to save any bathroom trips by literally going in his pants to avoid serving in the U.S. Army
. http://planet.infowars.com/activism/ted-nugent-was-no-angel-the-high-times-interview-admits-he-
dodged-the-draft-did-meth
The same Army my father voluntarily enlisted in knowing full well he would leave a wife and 2 kids in Lawton, Oklahoma while he was in Vietnam fighting for a country that wouldn't allow him to even vote when he turned 18.
I can turn on the radio any weekday and hear another COWARD running his fat mouth, spewing hateful venom for any lemming within earshot. Is anyone surprised Rush Limbaugh used a cyst on his fat rear end to get deferment from the Vietnam war? Cowards don't do these types of things when presented with an opportunity to fight for their country! PERIOD.
Nugent and Limbaugh always talk about supporting the troops and defending our country and they were too cowardly to do it themselves. In fact, they went to great lengths to AVOID serving the country they claim minorities and Liberals are ruining.
Are we as Americans that misguided and ignorant that we put idiots like Nugent and Limbaugh on Patriotic pedestals?
America, are you listening?
Listen to the blowhards that slander an unarmed boy that was stalked and murdered because he was profiled by a wannabe cop that took courses on law enforcement and then lied when asked if he'd ever heard of the "stand your ground" law in Florida.
Only two people knew exactly what happened that night. Does anyone honestly believe that Zimmerman would willfully implicate himself and head to jail?
Trayvon was on trial, not George Zimmerman. Trayvon's entire teenage years were introduced as evidence against him.
Meanwhile, Zimmerman's previous scuffle with an A.T.F. officer was ruled inadmissible in the trial.
Amazing!
The defense team tried to paint Zimmerman as non-violent.
REALLY?
When is a "jury of peers" going to reflect the demographics in America?
Now the expected lucrative book deals and television appearances by the 6 jurors will follow.
Juror B-37 started cashing in already. She's doing interviews on television saying Zimmerman did no wrong. She also gives the impression that her mission from the start of jury deliberations was to convince the "3 women that wanted to find Zimmerman guilty of something" to change their votes.
REALLY?
This can't be real!
Is this the justice system that so many Americans say is the "greatest in the world"?
That depends on who's perspective you have.
From my perspective, I can only think of one phrase.
JUST STAY IN YOUR VEHICLE!
PERIOD.
My name is Terrance, I'm a 47 year old black male, former U.S. Marine, and son of a late U.S. Army Vietnam Veteran.
I grew up in central Pennsylvania immediately after the civil rights movement of the 1960's. For those of you that have never spent any significant time in central Pa., allow me to share my personal perspective with you.
Pennsylvania may be just north of the Mason-Dixon line but a large amount of it's residents are white, rural, and have SOUTH of the Mason-Dixon line beliefs, prejudices, and attitudes.
My childhood neighborhood was black, white, and Hispanic. The whites that remained in my urban neighborhood after the "white flight" exodus of the early 70's were either not wealthy enough to "escape" or they were genuinely comfortable with us blacks and Puerto Ricans.
The kids in my childhood neighborhood would all play together. Black, white, and brown. All was good between us kids. The problem was with some of the parents. My mother would give my friends and I soda, popsicles, candy, and juice regardless of their color or ethnicity. What hurt my feelings as a child was when I would go to one of my friends house and I wasn't allowed beyond the top of his porch steps, let alone inside their home. We'd play together in the hot summer sun and his mother would call him to their house and hand him something cold to drink and NEVER offer the black and brown kids with him a single thing.
I always considered myself lucky to grow up in a home where many shades of people would visit and party together on a regular basis. My parents didn't need to give my siblings and I speeches about treating people as individuals, we lived that reality everyday. Growing up the way I did would not allow me to judge entire groups as being monolithic. I saw good and/or bad from all walks of life as a kid. It's not in my make-up to make presumptions based solely on skin color.
For the last 20 years or so I've been telling friends and coworkers that it's virtually impossible for ANY minority to grow up in America and not have some sort of positive interaction with whites. On the other hand, a good number of white Americans go their entire lives without having to interact with a person of color. There's also a very large number of white Americans that only interact with minorities in the workplace, whether it's coworkers or the minority's place of employment.
And then there's television and movies.......
Sadly, for many whites, television and movies are their sole minority experience. That is NOT the place to get to know a person or a people. TRUST ME, it's not.
Television and movies have come a long way since the unabashed racism and fear mongering of "The Birth of a Nation" in 1915 but the same undertones are alive and well in certain segments of our society.
My late grandmother worked cleaning the homes of whites well into the late 1980's. In retrospect, it's almost comical because the majority of the homes she cleaned were very small and the women of the homes were housewives that sat home all day popping Valium and watching soap operas. There was and still is some serious self-aggrandizement lurking behind closed suburban doors. It was a status symbol to have "colored help", the same holds true in 2013, only the help is brown instead of black. A Latina makes it big in Hollywood and what does she turn around and do? She produces a stereotypical television series called "Devious Maids" years AFTER another accomplished Latina already produced "Ugly Betty" for American viewers without having to glorify negative stereotypes. We should be well beyond something like that happening! Did Tyler Perry HAVE to have a buffoonish black male character in the lead role in order to get his "Meet the Browns" green-lighted?
What does it say about our modern society when a company receives so many hate filled emails and comments on it's website that they decided to disable the comment section of their website? Why so many racist emails and comments on it's website? The company had the courage to cast an interracial family in a Cheerios commercial.
Really?
Absolutely.
It's true that modern television and movies do in fact show MANY more instances of interracial couples than in years past. It's not so offensive to many white males until it's a black/brown male coupled with a white woman. Not a day goes by without seeing a white male paired with a Asian, black, or Hispanic woman. It's prevalent on the big and small screens in today's America.
Those types of pairings are fine or tolerated by white men.. It's only a problem when they see us black/brown men being intimate with white women.
It seems that the Cheerios people went out of their way to shoot that controversial commercial in a way that the husband and wife were always far apart.
The focus for me was the absolutely beautiful bi-racial little girl that graced the screen.
Ignorance still prevailed.
This is the so called "melting pot" in 2013....sad but true.
It's not as if race mixing is a new phenomenon. Just ask anyone that is aware of Thomas Jefferson's sexual exploits. 3/5 of a woman was all he needed.
The point I'm trying to make is that between ignorance and the media's lopsided portrayal of black and brown people, a large number of white America has no idea that we are a group of individuals...period.
The Republicans and the fanatical Tea Party have been trying to scare white Americans into voting for anyone but the Democrats that are supposedly "giving our country away to the minorities, illegals, and the L.G.B.T. community". Amazing considering WASPs and white males still dominate the wealth of the world. You control the banks, you control the world. PERIOD.
I've heard some Hispanics and blacks say "we're taking over" America. That's just as ignorant as the whites that think they're "losing America".
The only people that "lost" America are the indigenous peoples. The Native Americans. PERIOD
America, does any of this make sense?
It has been 3 days since the Zimmerman/Martin verdict and the chasm between whites and blacks seems to be as wide as it's been in 40 plus years. The case is extremely polarizing to say the least. Many feel Zimmerman had no other option but to defend himself.
Really? No other option?
How about listening to the non-emergency operator that told Zimmerman to stay in his vehicle? That's ANOTHER option.
George Zimmerman's guilt began the moment he left his vehicle...PERIOD!
His actions were the chief cause of Trayvon Martin's death. He should have been held responsible since he initiated the confrontation that resulted in the death of a child on his way home from an innocent trip to the store.
Zimmerman stalked a 17 year old boy, got his a%# kicked, and then used everything but his 2 fists to match the physicality the 17 year old brought to the table. Cowards hide behind guns.
Just ask idiot hate-rocker Ted Nugent. I had coworkers that think he's a great American patriot. He feels that young Trayvon only got what he deserved.
In reality he's a COWARD that is obsessed with guns and killing animals for sport and profit.
I'm a black former Marine and Ted Nugent is a self-admitted feces & vomit covered DRAFT DODGER. Don't believe me? Google his September 1977 CREEM or October 1977 HIGH TIMES interviews and hear it from the horse's A#%, mouth, or whatever end his nonsense comes out of.
American patriot?
REALLY?
Nugent even went as far to say that he "would have been a Colonel in no time at all" Amazing, he has no idea how the whole Commissioned Officer thing works in MY military. What a joke of a man.
It's painfully obvious that this "Patriot" is only interested in "leisure camo" He soiled his pants for at least a week straight to avoid being issued authentic combat gear. Only another coward would idolize an idiot like Nugent.
A man stops shaving, bathing, and chooses to save any bathroom trips by literally going in his pants to avoid serving in the U.S. Army
. http://planet.infowars.com/activism/ted-nugent-was-no-angel-the-high-times-interview-admits-he-
dodged-the-draft-did-meth
The same Army my father voluntarily enlisted in knowing full well he would leave a wife and 2 kids in Lawton, Oklahoma while he was in Vietnam fighting for a country that wouldn't allow him to even vote when he turned 18.
I can turn on the radio any weekday and hear another COWARD running his fat mouth, spewing hateful venom for any lemming within earshot. Is anyone surprised Rush Limbaugh used a cyst on his fat rear end to get deferment from the Vietnam war? Cowards don't do these types of things when presented with an opportunity to fight for their country! PERIOD.
Nugent and Limbaugh always talk about supporting the troops and defending our country and they were too cowardly to do it themselves. In fact, they went to great lengths to AVOID serving the country they claim minorities and Liberals are ruining.
Are we as Americans that misguided and ignorant that we put idiots like Nugent and Limbaugh on Patriotic pedestals?
America, are you listening?
Listen to the blowhards that slander an unarmed boy that was stalked and murdered because he was profiled by a wannabe cop that took courses on law enforcement and then lied when asked if he'd ever heard of the "stand your ground" law in Florida.
Only two people knew exactly what happened that night. Does anyone honestly believe that Zimmerman would willfully implicate himself and head to jail?
Trayvon was on trial, not George Zimmerman. Trayvon's entire teenage years were introduced as evidence against him.
Meanwhile, Zimmerman's previous scuffle with an A.T.F. officer was ruled inadmissible in the trial.
Amazing!
The defense team tried to paint Zimmerman as non-violent.
REALLY?
When is a "jury of peers" going to reflect the demographics in America?
Now the expected lucrative book deals and television appearances by the 6 jurors will follow.
Juror B-37 started cashing in already. She's doing interviews on television saying Zimmerman did no wrong. She also gives the impression that her mission from the start of jury deliberations was to convince the "3 women that wanted to find Zimmerman guilty of something" to change their votes.
REALLY?
This can't be real!
Is this the justice system that so many Americans say is the "greatest in the world"?
That depends on who's perspective you have.
From my perspective, I can only think of one phrase.
JUST STAY IN YOUR VEHICLE!
PERIOD.
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