Emmett Till / Trayvon Martin - An Awakening to Racist Evil in America

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Rune said:
Bravo, I have been to Sanford many times. How many times have you been there?

You don't believe in Town wide corruption?

You think every legal decision ever rendered is correct? A jury has never made a mistake?

You have blind faith in the legal system of the entire country?
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Sometime last year I posted a thread on here about the history of racism in Sanford, going back a hundred years or so. It's incredible and one of the reasons the former police chief of Sanford and the State Attorney refused to file charges to begin with.
 
Howey said:
Sometime last year I posted a thread on here about the history of racism in Sanford, going back a hundred years or so. It's incredible and one of the reasons the former police chief of Sanford and the State Attorney refused to file charges to begin with.
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Sorry. It was on my forum:

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com...olice-lieutenant-black-pioneers-celery-avenue

In almost any community, the shooting death of a black teen by a white crime-watch volunteer would raise accusations of racism. But this one occurred in Sanford, a city that has struggled with racial tensions for a century.

Much of that tension stems from Sanford's long history as an agricultural community that attracted laborers, many of them black, to work in the fields, farms and railroads, historians say. They formed Seminole County's historic black communities of Georgetown, Goldsboro and Midway.

Founded by laborers in the late 19th century, Goldsboro was once an active center of black life and became the second town in Florida incorporated by blacks. But in 1911, Sanford stripped Goldsboro of its charter and took it over. The streets, named after its black pioneers, were quickly renamed.

"Ever since Goldsboro was taken over by Sanford, there has been tension," said Sanford Mayor Jeff Triplett.

The county seat of Seminole, Sanford has per capita income barely more than $20,000 a year, and nearly a third of its 54,000 residents are black, according to 2010 U.S. census data.

"Because it's been an agricultural area for decades, it has had a higher percentage of poverty than the rest of the county," said Jim Robison, a board member of the Seminole County Historical Commission. "And there are concentration of areas that are going to have conflicts with the police and neighboring communities."

Many in Sanford say the seemingly slow pace by police to investigate last month's shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin is again raising suspicions that if shooter George Zimmerman were not white and the teen were not black, things would be different.

"I can tell you that if it was the other way around, someone would be in jail by now," Ulysees Cunningham said Wednesday. At 80 years old, the retired contractor, who is black, has lived in Sanford for most of his life, long enough to have seen its racist side, he said.

He remembers decades ago when black diners walked into restaurants and were seated apart from whites. Even now, he has watched police cars cruise through his neighborhood off Celery Avenue all night, "even though nothing was going on."

"By the police being slow-footed to arrest someone, it demonstrates that things are different for the black community," said Vibert White, a history professor at the University of Central Florida. "They have ignited a powder keg by being slow, by being indecisive and by being arrogant by not arresting this man."

Some are reminded of the 2010 incident when the white son of a Sanford police lieutenant was let go by police after sucker-punching a homeless black man outside a downtown bar.

Perry Echelberger, 64, who is white and has lived his entire life in Sanford, said it's understandable to suspect an element of racism when police have not released all the details of Trayvon's shooting.

"What's frustrating is that all the facts haven't been presented," he said while walking down First Avenue in downtown Sanford. "Something occurred that night that caused that man [Zimmerman] to be on edge, to feel threatened. What was that threat? What does the 911 tape say?"

Triplett said he understands the frustration by residents.

"I think that when a young man is killed, more than a week and a half [for police to respond] is an enormous amount of time," the Sanford mayor said. "But it's part of the process that all the evidence, that everything, has to be gathered.

"But if it was one of my sons, I would be wondering what was going on."

The Rev. James Watkins of Historic St. James AME Church in Georgetown said Sanford overall is "basically a peaceful community."

"But because people are viewing this as a racially motivated crime, it has the community aggravated," Watkins said. "If they [police] come out and release more details, if they release the 911 tape, it would calm things down."

Zimmerman's Neighborhood Watch group was started in September after residents reported at least three burglaries in the previous weeks, according to police.

Crime-watch volunteers are instructed to call police when they see anything suspicious, said Wendy Dorival, volunteer-program coordinator for Sanford Police.

"We actually tell them not to confront someone suspicious," she said. "Call us. Our officers are the ones who are paid and trained to go out and deal with it."

Even so, it has been more than two weeks since the teen's death, and suspicions linger. The Rev. Randolph Bracy Jr., a former president of the Orange County branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said there are still too many questions about the shooting.

"There are so many things, so many questions, that on the face of it, it looks like an unfair justice," Bracy said. "And Sanford has a history of unfair justice."
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well...how about this case from 6 days ago..

Police: 'Documented gang members' killed mother of 4 inside bakery

The Columbia Police Department has arrested three men in connection with the killing of a Columbia mother of four last week.

Crimestoppers tips led to the apprehension of Troy Stevenson, 18, Lorenzo Young, 18 and a 16-year-old, Columbia Police Chief Ruben Santiago said Monday afternoon.

All three have been charged with murder, kidnapping, attempted armed robbery and various other crimes, Santiago said. The juvenile, who is related to one of the suspects, will be tried as an adult.

A 33yo Mother of 4 Murdered by 3 sub-human animals

http://www.wistv.com/story/22781877/arrests-made-in-murder-of

 
Rune said:
Bravo, this is good.



Two posts later though you start out fine, honest, reliable, etc.

Describing the attuditude of the South and other racists towards perpetrators of violence against blacks.

Then, unfortunately your revert to true form and try to say;

to compare these two trials is just as much a farce, so it seems its your inability to logically weigh the issues is whats lacking.
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which any normal person knows is a complete lie. From there you just proceed into your usual Bravatard Blather:

PiMP and Bravo. Can say nothing but lies.
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The Fla. trial was not a stand your ground issue, its was common self defense while being attacked....the eye witness accounts, along with
Zimmermans account all compliment the physical evidence. You can't just make up your own scenario to agree with you preconceived conclusions.....
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What you call 'blather' is evidence....there was no mention of 'stand your ground' in the entire trial....

Opinions aren't lies...opinions are opinions.....

Are you claiming that trials in 1955 are comparable to 2013....?
 
NOVA said:
What you call 'blather' is evidence....there was no mention of 'stand your ground' in the entire trial....

Opinions aren't lies...opinions are opinions.....

Are you claiming that trials in 1955 are comparable to 2013....?
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Yes. Read Howie's post. Stop being a retard for a minute.
 
How sad that the lefties are embarrassing themselves kissing BACs ass. Pathetic.

Nowadays the racism is subtle nobody can see or hear it except BAC and Poet. It is so imperceptible that nobody can see it except them and of course their little teeny boppers chasing them around the board stepping all over themselves trying to prove they are the most empathetic to BAC.

Guess black teens killing black teens doesn't matter to the race hustlers and make no mistake BAC is a race hustler a la Al Sharpton
 
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