Good.  The only thing he “stood his ground” about was killing black people.

dumbthingswhitepplsay:

baddominicana:

shortformblog:

• $150,000 the amount George Zimmerman’s bond was set at when he was released last week after a contentious bond hearing
• $200,000 the amount George Zimmerman had in PayPal donations sitting around at the time of that…

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Yes, the Zimmerman Defense. #SYG

nefariousnewt:

storkankles:

Oslo, Norway (CNN)
 The man accused of killing 77 people in a bomb and gun rampage in Norway last summer claimed self-defense on Monday.

“I acknowledge the acts but do not plead guilty, and I claim I was doing it in self-defense,” Anders Behring Breivik told a court in Oslo, Norway.

Breivik made the remarks as he went on trial for the July 22 killings to which he has admitted.

Earlier during the proceedings, he raised a clenched fist and said he did not recognize the authority of the court.

He then listened impassively as the prosecutor read the charges against him, describing how dozens of teenagers and young people died from shots to the head and body.

Self defense everyone, yes you heard that right.

Standing his ground, no doubt.

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paxamericana:

spacebaw:

zedweiller:

emmydiocracy:

Neo-Nazis are currently conducting heavily armed patrols in and around Sanford, Florida and are “prepared” for violence in the case of a race riot. The patrols are to protect “white citizens in the area who are concerned for their safety” in the wake of the

Trayvon Martin shooting last month, says Commander Jeff Schoep of the National Socialist Movement. “We are not advocating any type of violence or attacks on anybody, but we are prepared for it,” he says. “We are not the type of white people who are going to be walked all over.”

Because nothing diffuses racial tension like gun-toting racial separatists patrolling an already on-edge community.

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by “defend white people” they mean “start shit they’ve been advocating for years”

pretty sure there’s no mountains in central florida 

Still the NSM, though.

This shit’s gonna blow wide open.  Demand justice for #Trayvon.

Twenty-eight Black People (27 Men and 1 Female) Killed by Police Officials, Security Guards, and Self-Appointed “Keepers of the Peace” between January 1, 2012 and March 31, 2012

- 28 cases of state sanctioned or justified murder of Black people in the first 3 months of 2012 alone have been found (due to under reporting and discriminatory methods of documentation, it is likely that there are more that our research has yet to uncover)

- Of the 28 killed people, 18 were definitely unarmed. 2 probably had firearms, 8 were alleged to have non-lethal weapons.

- Of the 28 killed people,

11 were innocent of any illegal behavior or behavior that involved a
threat to anyone (although the shooters claimed they looked “suspicious”);

7 were emotionally disturbed and/or displaying strange behavior.

The remaining 10 were either engaged in illegal or potentially illegal
activity, or there was too little info to determine circumstances of their
killing. It appears that in all but two of these cases, illegal and/or harmful
behavior could have been stopped without the use of lethal force.

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Instead of arguing over who’s a racist, let’s shift the conversation to more important questions. Let’s debate instead the underlying tensions and tendencies that contributed to Trayvon Martin’s shocking death. About the implications of living in a society in which White parents rarely talk to their kids about race, but Black parents have to warn their sons to bend over backwards to avoid so much as the whiff of suspicion at the convenience store or routine traffic stop. About what it means when our laws (and our culture) shift from duty to retreat to stand your ground.

These are tough, unsettling questions. It’s less threatening to ponder who is and isn’t a racist, especially since we’re all so confident that this label doesn’t apply to us. But arguing about who the racists are–fruitless tilting at windmills that it may be–remains the easy way out because it preempts wrestling with the harder questions raised by Martin’s death.

In short, I don’t know whether or not George Zimmerman is a racist. And frankly, I don’t much care.

I do know that Trayvon Martin’s death is a tragedy.

I do know that while it’s unthinkably terrible to lose a child of any background, tragedies like this one are far too likely to befall African-American families (and even when not fatal, that similar outrages and indignities are suffered daily by a wide range of people of color in this country).

And I do know that to suggest that race shouldn’t be a factor in talking about Trayvon Martin’s death is at the very least hopelessly naïve and at worst a disingenuous effort to change the topic to one less threatening to the status quo.

A profound, educational, sad read. #Trayvon

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