{"id":29232,"date":"2012-03-22T10:08:51","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T14:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29232"},"modified":"2012-03-22T10:08:51","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T14:08:51","slug":"surprise-some-people-are-racists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29232","title":{"rendered":"Surprise! Some people are racists"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was a tragic shooting in Florida that you may have, or may not have heard about. An Hispanic man, neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman, shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. The reasons aren’t clear, but controversy revolves around whether or not Zimmerman used a racial slur before he pulled the trigger. Somehow, making that determination will make young Martin less dead;<\/p>\n

One focus of the FBI\u2019s inquiry is whether Zimmerman muttered a racial slur seconds before shooting Martin on Feb. 26, as has been alleged. The FBI is trying to determine whether the audiotape of a 911 dispatch call between Sanford police and Zimmerman can be enhanced with sophisticated equipment that has been used in other cases. If it can, the tape will be transferred to the FBI laboratory at Quantico, one official said.<\/p>\n

Enhancing the tape could be crucial to determining whether the shooting is considered a \u201chate crime\u201d under federal hate-crime laws, according to law enforcement officials.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But the Washington Post<\/a> is wringing it’s tiny liberal hands over the fact that, in the Age of Obama racists still exist, a if it’s some sort of revelation;<\/p>\n

\u201cIt reminds you of Emmett Till,\u201d said Bernadette Pruitt, an associate professor of history at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Tex., who has written about Southern racial history and can\u2019t stop thinking of Trayvon Martin and his family. \u201cThis so-called post-racialism is a figment of our imagination. Race, unfortunately, is still the barometer by which everyone is measured.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, just like Emmet Till, a fourteen-year-old boy who was murdered because he spoke to a white woman in 1955. And one man’s murder of Trayvon Martin certainly doesn’t make all white people racists. Of course activists are demanding that the federal government step in and muck up the issue. <\/p>\n

Um, folks, the federal government can’t stop people from being racists. No matter how distasteful racism is, there will always be people who judge you by the way you look and the group you belong to. Sorry, but that’s life. The feds can attempt to wipe out institutional racism, but they can’t touch individuals for being hateful. I know that’s not fair, but the government isn’t in the business of spreading fairness around either. The government has to be fair – that’s the whole reason that there is a Constitution – but they can’t make us treat each other fairly. <\/p>\n

[Lula King, 75] continued: \u201cBut I\u2019ll tell you, God is gonna take care of all of this,\u201d she said to shouts of \u201cAmen!\u201d from the crowd. \u201cWhatever men do wrong, it\u2019s gonna come to the light.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yep, God will take care of all of this, but expecting the government to wipe out racism is just naive. They can’t even wipe out speeding and drunk driving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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