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Comment on He Wasn’t A Child by J. DARWIN SODER

J. DARWIN SODER — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 17:54:35 +0000

When blacks kill blacks there is no outrage. Interracial crime is a more grievous act than intraracial crime. According to FBI stats, young blacks kill at 10 times the rate of young whites and Hispanics. There are about two-and-a-half times as many white and Hispanic victums of black killers as there were black victims of white and Hispanis killers. Here in Florida I remain wary of black faces in dark places. This is not racism, just common sense.

Comment on He Wasn’t A Child by Allan

Allan — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 04:00:32 +0000

Well said Nick. This may have had nothing to do with race. The media made it into race issue and some national figures including the President helped to escalate that slant. It is to bad that this man-boy was killed. Unfortunately the facts have become so distorted that we may never know the truth. We will only know what the lawyers and press tell us. My grandson who is white wears a hoody at times as do some of of his friends black and white and hispanic have never considered thier shirts as racial. I just don’t buy the profiling angle especially since Zimmerman was Hispanic. The press edited events and pictures to “make news” and stir up the public. We can no longer rely on them for reporting the truth

Comment on He Wasn’t A Child by Bill S.

Bill S. — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 13:12:52 +0000

Nick
There is a vast difference between a neighborhood watch and a vigilante. There is also a vast difference between a neighborhood watch person watching and notifying the proper authorities and a vigilante stalking. The only thing someone in a neighborhood watch needs to be “armed” with is a radio or cell phone. Zimmerman was a gun armed self appointed vigilante no matter how you rationalize it.

Comment on He Wasn’t A Child by bucky

bucky — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 04:18:53 +0000

I agree with those who say wait till the trial and all the facts are in. The media have a field day with all the race issue stuff. We all knew Sharpton would show up, and give his usual garbage.

Comment on He Wasn’t A Child by Norma

Norma — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:46:17 +0000

Bad Nick Blog = The Voice of Reason!

Comment on He Wasn’t A Child by Sam Weibel

Sam Weibel — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:41:53 +0000

Several commenters have said the same thing,The Media has taken this and ran with it and given the Black Preachers (Sharpton) etc, another opportunity to spread hate across the front page. One said wait till this summer, This summer is already here, in several places looters have used this incident as an excuse to condone criminal activity. Where will it end. Who knows, And one more truth. To a mother a child is a child forever so I can’t blame this mother for feeling this way.No matter how big or strong he is.One of those nobody i gonna win contest’s…

Comment on He Wasn’t A Child by tom

tom — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 08:17:11 +0000

Nick already said “none of us was there, and none of us knows exactly what happened that night”. But all your readers that held a contrary opinion still think “Zimmerman following Trayvon” is a solid fact.

First of all, there’s no reason to believe Zimmerman followed Martin after the police told him not to, which is the linchpin of much excited reporting.

Zimmerman told the police, his friends and his lawyer that he walked back to his car after hanging up with the police and was waylaid by Martin. No witnesses have told the press otherwise.

There was at least a minute of silent unknown before Zimmerman yelling “Help!”.

So, should you hold your blaming on Zimmerman?

Tom

Comment on He Wasn’t A Child by Ron Butler

Ron Butler — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 05:44:49 +0000

Nick, forgot to add. I agree with you that he wasn’t a child. But 17 is still immature even as they approach 18 and on into early adulthood, no matter what their physical size is! I’ve seen a 15 year old male with a heavier beard than I have ever had, but that didn’t make him close to an adult!

Comment on He Wasn’t A Child by Ron Butler

Ron Butler — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 05:39:29 +0000

You are correct in that we will probably never know what really happened. Have to disagree with several points however. Zimmerman had no idea who Trayvon was nor what type of person he was. His past record, good or bad, is totally immaterial to what occurred that night. Since when is it illegal or unacceptable to be a young black male walking down the street with a hoody on at night? Zimmerman’s life or safety was not being threatened when told or instructed not to continue “following” (I believe his words) Trayvon. How do you explain the frantic phone call from Trayvon? Does it sound like he had “attacked” or was attacking or escalating the confretation with Zimmerman? Can you truthfully say with a straight face if Trayvon had been a white teenager and shot by an adult black, that the shooter wouldn’t have been taken into custody immediately? Yes, we still have a level of racism in our society towards young “suspecious” black males! And Butterbean, I do believe that the beginnings of publicity about this event started from Sanford and the social media of the internet, not the White House which you like to blame for everything! I suggest you look up the real definition of “liberal” in Websters, which you so like to disparage, not the twisted terminology that the far right attempts to define it! Oh, that will get some excitment going again!

BTW – Robert Wang hit the ball out of the park with his statements. Right on Robert!

Comment on He Wasn’t A Child by Finn

Finn — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 05:00:06 +0000

Hi Nick, I’ve been reading your blog for a long time and enjoy it, thanks. Here is some video of Zimmerman as he arrived at the police station immediately after the shooting:

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/trayv.....3Pr5b_heFc

He does not appear to have suffered ANY trauma of any kind. It seems to me that he was abusing Florida’s laws to go human hunting.