Zimmerman acquitted

[ladyjane]

Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly

LaBron James and Kobe Bryant and Victor Cruz, Pee-Diddy or whatever his name is, JZ, ?fitty cents?, Pitbull, SnoopDog, Chris Brown, a slew of NFL/NBA/MLB players all make zillions of dollars. Why don't they march into urban Chicago TOGETHER regularly and pay those gang children to work on some projects cleaning up the buildings where older folks and single mothers with children live in filth? Those multimillionaires can never spend all of their money and they could help create jobs and do something to help stop that daily murdering. No, they don hoodies and stand in a spotlight before a game and Tweet and create tax shelter foundations but until they get in there on the streets and inspire some kids themselves, what real good are they to their own kind living in hopelessness and dying in the streets?

I am sure many of them actually do more than you know. I know that Michael Jordan always did for the kids in Chicago. He actually founded a Boys and Girls Club.

[ladyjane]

Originally Posted by Yorkiemom1

Well now, here in Houston Texas, how many thousand miles from what just happened in Florida???? Now we have a mob parading down the middle of a freeway, stopping traffic....and it happens to be the freeway I have to take to work! Where are OUR police??? Why is this stupidity being allowed to continue??? Go parade up and down in front of the courthouse or something....you are keeping PEOPLE THAT ACTUALLY WORK FOR A LIVING, from getting to work!!!! I bet if some pickup truck comes flying over one of those overpasses and plows into that mob, going 70 mph, you can bet that will cause some refocussing of attention and re-evaluating what is important to THESE people.

Wonderful...where is this happening? I have to go to Reliant tomorrow.

[ladyjane]

Never mind...just found it....it was on 288

What a stupid thing to do.

[Lovetodream88]

Originally Posted by ladyjane

A witness said that, yes. But I fail to get what that is telling me about whether or not Zimmerman is racist. It actually is not proof positive to me that Trayvon was.
I don't think you are following me on this.

Yeah think I am to tired to follow anything right now

[yorkietalkjilly]

I can't for the life of me see how anything that has come out has made Zimmerman a racist or Trayvon Martin a racist or any different from any of the hundreds of children that were killed by gunshot last year in Chicago.

[capt_noonie]

There are now violent protests going on in LA on Crenshaw. So far one has been arrested. They are vandalizing cars and I think I heard marching on the freeway. How is this the right kind of protesting?

[ladyjane]

Originally Posted by capt_noonie

There are now violent protests going on in LA on Crenshaw. So far one has been arrested. They are vandalizing cars and I think I heard marching on the freeway. How is this the right kind of protesting?

Clearly it's not. This is people who have no clue what they are doing besides raising hell. Just ridiculous.

[Britster]

Akon wants to move back to Africa, because apparently "we're not safe in America". You do that, Akon, have fun. What a moron.

Let’s move to Africa, we are not safe in America after Zimmerman acquittal - Akon | Entertainment News

[yorkietalkjilly]

Originally Posted by ladyjane

I am sure many of them actually do more than you know. I know that Michael Jordan always did for the kids in Chicago. He actually founded a Boys and Girls Club.

But they need some leaders to work with them regularly - some men of note to look up to. I've heard of all their foundations but it's not really helping if hundreds die of gang violence that much, is it? Look at Alex Rodriguez and Prince Fielder and MLB players and rappers dripping in gold and stables of fancy cars and Tiger Woods - all who make more millions upon million than they can spend who form foundations to shelter part of their money but aren't working directly with the gang children in urban areas themselves at all. They leave the foundations for women and others to run. I think these kids who don't have that much structure or fathers in their lives need some one on one work and something to aspire to. They all could band and pay them to go to school or do some work that was meaningful to help their own poor. Passing money down from the Ivory Towers and Tweeting and making rap songs and violent movies doesn't seem to be helping American gang children that much. I'd say to them put your own self back into your culture and your culture's kids and help them one on one if you really want to "give back" as you all claim.

[capt_noonie]

Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly

But they need some leaders to work with them regularly - some men of note to look up to. I've heard of all their foundations but it's not really helping if hundreds die of gang violence that much, is it? Look at Alex Rodriguez and Prince Fielder and MLB players and rappers dripping in gold and stables of fancy cars and Tiger Woods - all who make more millions upon million than they can spend who form foundations to shelter part of their money but aren't working directly with the gang children in urban areas themselves at all. They leave the foundations for women and others to run. I think these kids who don't have that much structure or fathers in their lives need some one on one work and something to aspire to. They all could band and pay them to go to school or do some work that was meaningful to help their own poor. Passing money down from the Ivory Towers and Tweeting and making rap songs and violent movies doesn't seem to be helping American gang children that much. I'd say put your own self back into your culture and your culture's kids and help them one on one if you really want to "give back" as they all claim.

That's exactly the problem. A lot of these celebrities give to charity for tax write offs. If they really cared, they'd be there more often. But they have more important things to do. So who do these young men look up to that they see everyday? Well, could be the guys with the gold jewelry and nice cars. How did they get them? I'm pretty sure it wasn't from going to college and getting a degree and then getting a job with a nice salary. In these poor neighborhoods, if they see people around them robbing and stealing or dealing drugs and getting lots of money, what do you think they are going to do? And if you don't want to be in that life, and you want to study, what do the gangs do? They bully you! It's not fair if you grow up in a place like that. But really there isn't anything we can do about where we were born and where we grew up. We could have been born in a poor village on another continent or we could have been born a Hilton. Sometimes you have to work really hard to better your life. Sometimes you don't have to do a damn thing.

[capt_noonie]

Originally Posted by Britster

Akon wants to move back to Africa, because apparently "we're not safe in America". You do that, Akon, have fun. What a moron.

Let’s move to Africa, we are not safe in America after Zimmerman acquittal - Akon | Entertainment News

Where is Akon originally from? Edit: I see he IS originally from africa.

A lot of people were not happy when George W was re-elected and they said they would move out of the country. Well did any of them? I don't think so. This country has it's share of problems, but what country doesn't?

But seriously, a famous, rich entertainer thinks he's not safe in America? oh puhleeze.

From the article, one of the comments:
“I don’t understand why African Americans are so mad about slavery the Jews had it worse in WWII and it was more recent than slavery n I never hear them saying “it’s because he’s Jewish” so stfu n stick to making music.”

[Jacksmom052709]

One cannot reason with ignorant people - those who are rioting are ignorant to so many things and I'm pretty sure the majority of them do not have law degrees. Where are Al, Jesse and Barack now? They should be telling these people that rioting is not going to solve anything.

[yorkietalkjilly]

Originally Posted by capt_noonie

That's exactly the problem. A lot of these celebrities give to charity for tax write offs. If they really cared, they'd be there more often. But they have more important things to do. So who do these young men look up to that they see everyday? Well, could be the guys with the gold jewelry and nice cars. How did they get them? I'm pretty sure it wasn't from going to college and getting a degree and then getting a job with a nice salary. In these poor neighborhoods, if they see people around them robbing and stealing or dealing drugs and getting lots of money, what do you think they are going to do? And if you don't want to be in that life, and you want to study, what do the gangs do? They bully you! It's not fair if you grow up in a place like that. But really there isn't anything we can do about where we were born and where we grew up. We could have been born in a poor village on another continent or we could have been born a Hilton. Sometimes you have to work really hard to better your life. Sometimes you don't have to do a damn thing.

You know I've heard it said that just showing up is half the battle and if the gang children had some one-on-one by these millionaires profiting wildly from our culture, why aren't they in there with those poor children elbow to elbow helping them learn to do something other than deal drugs and steal and work at menial jobs. Inspire those kids with your own butt sitting down beside them to help them with their life - their homework or fix their bike or take Granny to the doctor. Nope. Mr. Labron James, JZ and their ilk are too busy making and spending $$$ to help gang kids face to face in their off seasons and days off. I'll bet Sharpton or Michael Jackson hasn't helped a black kid from the slums with his homework or helped him wash his apartment windows of soot anytime recently. How many gang kids recovering from gunshots that didn't die have famous black leaders or athletes visited in the hospital and watched TV with them all evening? Oh, I forgot, they are on TV himself making appearances railing about one kid. There's a whole other young generation out there hurting, dirt poor, in big trouble and no men of note with time to go work faithfully with them to give them a little inspiration and face time, to love them in a meaningful way.

[OwnedByJezebel]

Is George Zimmerman a racist?

-His maternal grandfather was black.
-The girl he took as his date to his high school prom was black.
-His business partner - black.
-His wife's best friend - black.
-He tutored children for free after school that were black.
-He invited a black neighbor to stay at his house indefinitely after her house was broken into.
-A black homeless Sherman Ware, was beaten by the son of a white police lieutenant from Sanford. Zimmerman stood before city commissioners and read a protest statement. He was the ONLY person that stood up in defense of the black homeless man.
-51% of his neighborhood is black/brown.

FBI report: No evidence George Zimmerman a racist - National Crime & Courts | Examiner.com

[capt_noonie]

Originally Posted by OwnedByJezebel

Is George Zimmerman a racist?

-His maternal grandfather was black.
-The girl he took as his date to his high school prom was black.
-His business partner - black.
-His wife's best friend - black.
-He tutored children for free after school that were black.
-He invited a black neighbor to stay at his house indefinitely after her house was broken into.
-A black homeless Sherman Ware, was beaten by the son of a white police lieutenant from Sanford. Zimmerman stood before city commissioners and read a protest statement. He was the ONLY person that stood up in defense of the black homeless man.
-51% of his neighborhood is black/brown.

FBI report: No evidence George Zimmerman a racist - National Crime & Courts | Examiner.com

What black celebrity can say that they did this?