True. The usual suspects already have their hotel suite reservations.

NOT GUILTY

There is certainly a level of civil rights nostalgia surrounding this case. Trayvon’s murder fell on the heels of two infamous cases coming out of New York. One, where a bride’s groom coming out of nightclub where his batchelor party was being held was sprayed with forty-fifty bullets for reaching for his wallet. Second, Goldsboro a nearby city to the Trayvon incident is originally one of two cities in Florida that historically was incorporated by african-americans, so there is a penchant to be nostalgic geographically.. The release of the movie Dar He right after the shooting probably increased comparsons to the 1955 lynching and shooting death of Emmit Till. That was only compounded by the misinformation coming out in the beginning, witnesses referring to this young man as a “little boy”. Emmitt had been fourteen. Trayvon is no Emmit Till. Even with all the emotions surrounding this case, I suspect the african-american community will handle the decision with dignity. Al Sharpton, and Rev. Jackson, and even the DOJ...well...what can you say. It is what it is. The verdict is in! Gotta go.

I don't think that's becoming of you folks. If you can't win an argument, you can walk away like respectable adults. This pettiness degrades you.

Good article. A few generalizations that detract slightly from the overall theme, but otherwise a reasonable perspective.

@khalling:

I don't know if it's rational to ask for a deductive reason for the presence of African-Americans at riots. It seems like one would expect an opinion in response to such.

As to the rest of your post, I respect your right to disagree.

@letsshrug:

is that reply to me? (my phone doesn't consistently render the order of replies either. lol)

Excellent. I wish that my phone was fully functional with this system, so I could give out those points.

It's peculiar to me that something like this, widespread assumptions of animalistic tendencies that are reflexive in African-Americans, will come out of the power holders of the collective, yet there are claims that America isn't racist.

True dat!

@khalling:

I think that you're using a standard of non-racist that is racist. (Bear with me for a paragraph.)

If we begin with the proposition "We're all Americans," then the racial profile of any group of actors is immaterial. That's non-racist. To establish a racial element, without regard to malice on the part of the actors, we would then move to the actions taken by the group and the standards by which those actions were taken. At no point in the assessment of racism does the race of the actors become relevant because our prime premise is "We're all Americans," which is incompatible with race identification. However, you're not using that standard.

I think that African-Americans are always there because they don't have the fear that plagues Caucasians. Somehow, Caucasians compartmentalize the passion for liberty with the reality of collectivism. I think that the trouble-making elements of the African-American community believe that they're free and don't suffer the terror that drives average Caucasians.

Smith, in Wealth, declares that the primary difference between savages and civilized people is a sense of subordination. I think the American Caucasian sense of subordination is fear driven while the criminal elements of the the African-American community don't have that fear.

That's not to defend the behavior. Property rights are property rights. But, if I were to offer a solution, it would be to stop misrepresenting the culture of the U.S. We're not good; we're not free; American justice is as corrupt as the people implementing it. Beginning with these factual propositions would probably, in my opinion, change everything in the low echelons of the American economy.

I agree that this trial is absurd. I don't excuse wrong on either side. But, I don't deny when one side is right either. This is as terrifying as the Peterson case. It's part of a power grab that seeks to force Americans to be more reliant on the police. Now, how am I going to confront a shady character snooping around my neighbor's place? Call the dependents in blue; that's it.