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Originally Posted by Mike D
I'm just not sure the minority communities are focusing their efforts properly. If the end goal is to stop young black kids from getting killed, I am absolutely clueless why the target is George Zimmerman...or white conservatives. It doesn't make sense.
As for the media. What I feel like has happened is the black community as a whole has been incited by the mass media. It was a fabrication from the start, a sham. What was the agenda? To fire raci$m back up? People are protesting this because they honestly feel like white people are stalking blacks all over the country, killing them, and getting away with it. It's ridiculous, but that's where we are now. Way to make us all "aware" of that CNN/MSNBC/FOX NEWS.
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Unfortunately, George Zimmerman is the face today. As with all the discussion that has taken place over the last page and a half, I think it is obvious that we don't need the media to fire racism back up. There seems to be a consensus that racism does exist and has not gone anywhere. Gotten better? Sure. Disappeared. Definitely not. I also think there are multiple reasons for protest. I think that many of the protestors are just as tired of being generalized of being suspicious as their opponents are of being racists.
As far as the end goal...hmm that actually could be the start of an interesting conversation. But the idea that the conversation is one for the minority community is troublesome for me. I mean if the end goal were to stop young black kids from getting killed, does that mean that it is only the end goal of the black community? Of course not. I believe that the is the end goal for every community. Now understand, I am not suggesting that you meant it was only the goal of the black community. I am suggesting that it is in best interests of all communities.