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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsObama is one smart and cookie. By claiming Treyvon Martin could be his son he has claimed that
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poor kid for all of us. Now justice can happen and a discussion on 'stand your ground' laws and what it is like to be walking or driving while black with all of our hearts. I was previously outraged by what happened to the 17 year old but, Obama brought it totally home for me.
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FarPoint
(12,368 posts)This is not acceptable ...not now...
Loudly
(2,436 posts)And not lashing out at the shooter like he did in the Gates / Cambridge police officer case.
Learning, learning, learning.
CakeGrrl
(10,611 posts)Estevan
(70 posts)Loudly
(2,436 posts)izquierdista
(11,689 posts)Abdul-Rahman al-Awlaki
blue neen
(12,321 posts)I'm missing your point somehow.
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)baldguy
(36,649 posts)is the same as being a student intern with al Qaeda in Yemen?
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)The point, if you really need help in understanding, is to juxtapose the killing of an innocent black kid by an idiot cop wannabe with the killing of another innocent (until proven guilty... at least that's how it USED to be) kid by the American Government. One provokes hyperbole-filled outrage while the other hardly seems to matter.
The kid below looks no more like a terrorist than Trayvon looks like a burglar or worse. He look like a member of al-qaeda to you?
Personally? I disagree with the OP's point of view. "Now justice can happen..." because President Obama claimed Trayvon for "all of us"? Please.
FarPoint
(12,368 posts)That way we who wish to engage in healthy discussion of your thoughts and feelings about this other young man can be explored.
You see, you are getting off topic from the the current OP. It borders on disruptiveness. It's called hijacking a thread.