George Zimmerman declared not guilty of second-degree murder

[Chocolate Shake Man]

And the only way Sharpton, Jackson, and any number of other charlatans and opportunists stay relevant, keep their names and images in the media, and stay needed (and continue earning millions of dollars in salary) is to continue to convince people that their services are required...

Would you say the same was true of Martin Luther King? Or Gandhi? Or George Washington?

Or, if Sharpton and Jackson are particularly unique contemporary examples of "charlatans and opportunists" who have "convinced people that their services are required" then how do you explain the shift amongst African-Americans towards more so-called moderate political positions from more traditionally radical positions that they conventionally expressed from the 1950s through to the 1970s. Of course, to be fair to your position, Jackson and Sharpton are themselves more moderate leaders - typically espousing fairly centrist viewpoints - for the African American community but that only becomes relevant if you are to assume that African-Americans have always been suckers and that they are unique in that they are always duped by leaders (rather than the possibility that their leaders' position is reflective and representative of the community's position as a whole).

[Alex]

Let's take a look at some of the dominant class...











I can go all day...

 

[Bean Bag]

You're way off Alex!

[Jason]

Racism has become an industry in the United States. It keeps morons like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton in business.

It's amazing how most of the people who say that are part of the dominant class.

And I guess those who express similar sentiments in the black community are just race traitors, right? It's not uncommon. Of course I'd argue that Maxine Waters (who might be as intelligent as dog sh*t) might actually be worse than them. She thinks everyone who isn't black should pay reparations for acts we never committed.

[Amazing Larry]

Let's take a look at some of the dominant class...











I can go all day...

 

I lost it at Scrooge McDuck. 

[guitarfool2002]

And the only way Sharpton, Jackson, and any number of other charlatans and opportunists stay relevant, keep their names and images in the media, and stay needed (and continue earning millions of dollars in salary) is to continue to convince people that their services are required...

Would you say the same was true of Martin Luther King? Or Gandhi? Or George Washington?

Or, if Sharpton and Jackson are particularly unique contemporary examples of "charlatans and opportunists" who have "convinced people that their services are required" then how do you explain the shift amongst African-Americans towards more so-called moderate political positions from more traditionally radical positions that they conventionally expressed from the 1950s through to the 1970s. Of course, to be fair to your position, Jackson and Sharpton are themselves more moderate leaders - typically espousing fairly centrist viewpoints - for the African American community but that only becomes relevant if you are to assume that African-Americans have always been suckers and that they are unique in that they are always duped by leaders (rather than the possibility that their leaders' position is reflective and representative of the community's position as a whole).

Sharpton and Jackson are concerned with promoting themselves and profiting from dividing people on racial lines, and the fact that people still fall for their schtick surprises me.

I sincerely feel, in light of following them in the news since the 80's, that they would be out of a job and declared irrelevant if there ever were a deeper feeling of racial harmony in the US. And in order to keep those jobs and that higher media profile, they deliberately inflame and I'd say incite along racial lines rather than trying to improve race relations for the most part.

If race relations in the US improve *too much*, these two will have nowhere to hawk their goods.

And with my views on Sharpton, it goes back beyond the recent years: I don't know who remembers it or who had access to New York television in the late 80's, but he and a few associates managed to stoke racial tensions in New York nearly to the temperature of a blowtorch with his lying and meddling in the Tawana Brawley case.

And until recently my image of Sharpton as perhaps the most articulate and engaging candidate in the Democrats' primary debates smoothed over a lot of the negatives I held from the 80's, but his television show and some of his actions recently struck me as the old Al, for which Howard Stern had a theme song called "Al Sharpton To The Rescue" which was set to the tune "Jim Dandy To The Rescue" which would play every time Stern reported on Sharpton's activities when he was still based mostly in New York.

Sharpton did seem to have mellowed out on being a firebrand for a time leading up to those debates in 2008, but for a myriad of reasons we can try to guess "why now", in the past few years even before the Martin case he seems to have fired up the inflammatory rhetoric which had only been smoldering since the 80's.

As far as Jackson, I don't have much else to say other than I don't trust this Reverend, a religious leader and spiritual adviser who thousands would look to for moral guidance and direction, who had a child with his mistress and tried to cover it up by paying out hush money in the form of cash, gifts, and other goodies. There are just things that someone in a position of spiritual authority and influence should not do, especially when their life's calling centers around advising their followers how to better live their lives.

And, I mean this seriously, it always seemed to cheapen the message he may have legitimately had when Jesse would show up for a protest seemingly whenever someone or something in the public eye didn't go as Jackson thought it should have gone, and therefore he'd organize a protest on demand wherever the "wrong" took place.

And when the 'wrong' he'd take to the media to protest was something trivial like the firing of a football coach, it made him look like an opportunist and a media-hungry gadfly more than a leader of any substance. There is a difference between leading, and simply complaining when something doesn't go as you think it should, I'm sorry if that offends anyone reading this.

[Alex]

Let's take a look at some of the dominant class...











I can go all day...

 

I lost it at Scrooge McDuck. 

The first five were supposed to be serious.   

[Alex]

You're way off Alex!

You mean this guy?

[Bean Bag]

You're forcing it Alex! -- just relax!

[Bean Bag]

I don't think anyone is trying to ignore history, but at what point do we learn to move past this and progress as a society?  What needs to transpire before everyone feels they have the same opportunities as everyone else?

Society will need to "pass" this feeling of guilt from it's system.  Completely "flush" it out.  As long as people feel guilty, the race hustling dominant society will be exploiting and using people (and the American society) as their personal toilet.

[Alex]

You're forcing it Alex! -- just relax!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cVlTeIATBs

[Bean Bag]

I can't wait for Dumb and Dumber 2.  Though, I'm expecting the worst.

[FatherOfTheMan Sr101]

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57594906/george-zimmerman-helps-save-family-from-overturned-suv/

As terrible as it is, I'm laughing my ass off. This seems to unbelievable to be true.

[Bean Bag]

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57594906/george-zimmerman-helps-save-family-from-overturned-suv/

As terrible as it is, I'm laughing my ass off. This seems to unbelievable to be true.

CBS forgot to mention the race of the people in the SUV!!  What kind of journalism is this!?!  Where they black?  White?  White hispanics?!  God-forbid if they were one of the last two.  We'll never know!  And why did it take the media a week to report this?  Where's the PRESIDENT?!?!!?!  We need him to lead us through!!!  HELP US!!!


Barrack Obama:  "If I drove an SUV, it would NOT have looked like that."  Ahh, there he is.  Whew... thank you, sir.  I was getting worried -- unsure of how the nation would pull together, or split apart I mean.


For you Bean Bag... anything.  You're a great American.

[Mike's Beard]

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CBS forgot to mention the race of the people in the SUV!!  What kind of journalism is this!?!  Where they black?  White?  White hispanics?!  God-forbid if they were one of the last two.  We'll never know!  And why did it take the media a week to report this?  Where's the PRESIDENT?!?!!?!  We need him to lead us through!!!  HELP US!!!

How did the SUV overturn? Did it try to navigate a gentle turn at more than 30mph?

Can you imagine if the people in the car had been black? For a cheap laugh Zimmerman could have pretended to reach into his coat pocket for a gun in front of them.

[Bean Bag]

CBS forgot to mention the race of the people in the SUV!!  What kind of journalism is this!?!  Where they black?  White?  White hispanics?!  God-forbid if they were one of the last two.  We'll never know!  And why did it take the media a week to report this?  Where's the PRESIDENT?!?!!?!  We need him to lead us through!!!  HELP US!!!

How did the SUV overturn? Did it try to navigate a gentle turn at more than 30mph?

Can you imagine if the people in the car had been black? For a cheap laugh Zimmerman could have pretended to reach into his coat pocket for a gun in front of them.

Oh I know.  There's too many jokes here.

Given Zimmerman's notoriety I feel the need to add the following as a disclaimer -- of course nobody's making light of Trayvon's senseless death -- just those exploiting it.  We're making light of the curiously devoid of rational thought "social politics" that tried to have a man convicted for something nobody could prove; the bizarre media lock-step circus that followed the left's lead and made this man the most hated man in the world; the "here we go again" grotesque racist/witch hunt used to gain political leverage for the dominant ruling class; and the sad state of racial relations as a result of their hunger for power -- not too mention the mind-numbed, riotous lengths the left's fruit-bearers will go to keep them in power.  This roasts for you Barry!

Top 10 funny things Zimmerman could have said... (drum roll please)

#10: "Don't worry... I'm not armed."
#9:  "I'd help, but... you know."
#8:  "OMG! Is everyone all white -- I mean, is everyone alright?"
#7:  "Heeeeeere's Georgie!"
#6:  "It's okay... I'm white."

#5:  "Overturned SUV?  I thought it was a black kid."
#4:  "Help you?  Phhtt... wait for the cops jerks!"
#3:  "Don't worry, you're safe.  NBC will never know about this."
#2:  "George Zimmerman?  Nooo, I'm just an illegal alien."
#1:  "Please, I need to know... does anyone in the vehicle look anything like Barrack Obama?"

[guitarfool2002]

Buried underneath the actual event that happened, with the family of four overturning the SUV and Zimmerman being one of those bystanders who helped pull them out of the wreck, is the reaction from some pundits including Stephanie Miller and pundits appearing on the radio show of Bill Press who have suggested the whole thing was staged! So let's suspend logic, then, and assume that someone would have a family including his two kids in the car deliberately roll their SUV at a specific time and place so Zimmerman could be there to help get them out? Or ask "where are the photos and video?" to suggest not that it was staged, but that it didn't happen at all!

Only a complete idiot would go public with that kind of conspiracy theory. Especially in light of the 911 tapes of people reporting the crash being released. But anyway.

I also heard someone ask, seriously, "who carries a fire extinguisher in their car???" after the reports said Zimmerman had a fire extinguisher on the scene as the vehicle apparently was smoking.

I, for one, have had a fire extinguisher in the trunk of every car I've owned, as did my dad who was a volunteer firefighter for decades and who also kept one in his cars. And one time I actually had to use it when a fire flared up under my hood. So I guess that's unusual? (Side note: I'd recommend everyone buy a small extinguisher for 20 bucks or so and keep it in their car trunk just in case.)

The reaction has been absolutely unwarranted, ridiculous, and coming from the likes of Press's guests and Miller to name two, it is sad to think that people who are so-called "educated" and rational would suggest this family deliberately crashed a car or faked the entire incident including I assume faking a series of 911 calls in order to change the opinions of Zimmerman.

People need to call that kind of thing out, and those making such ridiculous conspiracy accusations, even hinting at them, should pay some kind of consequence for being so blind with either political ideology or anger that they can't see how ridiculous they sound. I hope those with common sense hearing those comments about staging accidents and the like will reject them out of hand, yet I fear many are believing the same line of crap.

Seriously.

[Bean Bag]

Race Relations Have Plummeted Since Obama Took Office, According to Poll
http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/25/race-relations-have-plummeted-since-obama-took-office-according-to-poll/

This is the kind of stuff I love posting.  Not the fact that it's happening -- but that the fact that the people who claim to champion the little guy -- are the problem.  Read it and weep liberals/leftist/socialists/etc. -- you're busted!!!

All those who thought voting for Barrack Obama would somehow finally assuage you of your need to prove that you weren't racist -- that you want to be forgiven for the sin of slavery, racism, Jim Crow -- forgiven for all of America's evils towards minorities -- read it and weep.  I knew race relations would get worse.  It was obvious.

'Course this poll isn't the official ruling -- reality should have dictated that to you -- but it's great to see this stuff get reported.  It's happening guys.  Bury your head in the sand if it helps.  But you're still wrong about this guy and his ideology and the Democrat Party.  Things are not going to get better in this country until we can become a better judge of character.  If we can't spot a huckster... we're gonna lose the farm.



"Public attitudes about race relations have plummeted since the historic election of President Barack Obama, according to a new poll from NBC News and the Wall Street Journal.

Only 52 percent of whites and 38 percent of blacks have a favorable opinion of race relations in the country, according to the poll, which has tracked race relations since 1994 and was conducted in mid-July by Hart Research Associations and Public Opinion Strategies.

That’s a sharp drop from the beginning of Obama’s first term, when 79 percent of whites and 63 percent of blacks held a favorable view of American race relations.


...The National Association for the Advancement of (LIBERAL) Colored People, which steadfastly supports the Obama administration, distributed pro-Obama election flyers in 2012 with lynching and Ku Klux Klan imagery."

 

[leggo of my ego]

Obama?

Ohh Yes, he's the great dee-vi-der -- Ooo Ooo, Oooh, Oooha

quite the pretender too, I might add. 

[Jason]

The NAACP has become a fucking joke. They need to be taken about as seriously as Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson - meaning not seriously at all.

[Heysaboda]

Barry Loves You!      

[Bean Bag]

Barry Loves You!      

I know Barry loves me... and by voting for him (and telling people that I voted for him) I feel like I'm letting the myself (and the world) know that I'm one of the good white people.... even though the Democrat Party is the party of slavery, racism, Jim Crow, bigotry, sexism, Segregation and the KKK.  I don't care!  The party's different now!!  I know they're the party of high taxes, regulation, socialism, communism, Marxism, anti-liberty, anti-freedom and anti-individualism.  But I still don't care!!  Because I'm one of the masses!  A worker!  I'm a number!!  I've surrendered my identity and my manhood and I watch sensitive, feminized TV!  I care!! I'm letting the world know "I love!, I'm tender! I'm not gonna fight!  Take my money!!!  I surrender!!!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT3D3Xc68oQ





Back to you Stuart...

[Mike's Beard]

Did anyone catch this weeks South Park? One of the funniest things I have seen in a long time.

[Rocky Raccoon]

After the not guilty verdict, Zimmerman decided that having now been given a second chance, he would prove to the world that he is a good person.



...or maybe he'll beat women.

http://jezebel.com/surprise-george-zimmerman-arrested-on-domestic-violenc-1466839003

[Bean Bag]

After the not guilty verdict, Zimmerman decided that having now been given a second chance, he would prove to the world that he is a good person.



...or maybe he'll beat women.

http://jezebel.com/surprise-george-zimmerman-arrested-on-domestic-violenc-1466839003

A good few weeks-plus, and still no big slogan from President Obama about this.  Don't women matter anymore?  Remember when Obama said "if he had a son, he'd look like Trayvon?"  Well, he has a wife... did she not look enough like Michelle?

Well... what about the "War on Women" ad-campaign?  Doesn't that come into play -- Oh, that was to make idiots hate Romney?  Got it.  You know, for a second I believed him, about stuff.

Well, anyway.  I'm still waiting.  I'm curious to know what the President thinks of Zimmerman's female-violence rap.  What about the connection that he is "White Hispanic?"  That's a lead.  Probably something to investigate there, right?

Perhaps, saying too much about Zimmerman's women-hating, makes him look less racial -- and more like "crazy-guy with anger issues."  And that would make the whole national race parade (which spurred riots) look less than accurate.  Maybe even insincere.  As a result -- making an issue of this would only weaken the race-card market.  That's not wise for a Party that needs anger and hate to succeed.