it flies in the the face of leftist spin and race baiting
-- On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Tommy News <tommysnews@gmail.com> wrote:
So what does that have to do with tea in China or more aptly and
likely with Tea Party Racism?
On Apr 26, 1:57 pm, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> **
> New post on *Fellowship of the Minds*
> <http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/author/eowyn2/> George Zimmerman
> is part Black<http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/george-zimmerman-is...>by
> Dr. Eowyn <http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/author/eowyn2/>
>
> In their rush to judgment, the media and Black race-baiters (including the
> President of the United States himself) painted Trayvon-shooter George
> Zimmerman as an anti-Black racist, never mind that our judicial system is
> predicated on the innocent-until-proven-guilty principle. Nor did the pack
> of hounds bother to find out about Zimmerman -- his racial-ethnic
> background; does he have a racist history; what led him to be a
> neighborhood watch volunteer.
>
> A reporter for Reuters, Chris
> Francescani<http://blogs.reuters.com/search/journalist.php?edition=us&n=chris.fra...>,
> has finally undertaken the investigative work that journalists are supposed
> to do. Based on extensive interviews with relatives, friends, neighbors,
> schoolmates and co-workers of Zimmerman in two states, law enforcement
> officials, and reviews of court documents and police reports, the
> Reutersreport of April 25,
> 2012<http://www.reuters.com/assets/print?aid=USBRE83O18H20120425>,
> paints a much more nuanced and truer picture of Zimmerman than as an angry
> racist vigilante. Among the facts uncovered is this:
> George Zimmerman is not just bi-racial -- Latino (Peruvian) and "white"
> (Jewish), *he has Black roots. His maternal great grandfather was an
> Afro-Peruvian.*
>
> <http://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/george_zimmerman...>
>
> Some of Reuters' other findings:
>
> - 28-year-old Zimmerman comes from a deeply Catholic background and was
> taught in his early years to do right by those less fortunate. He was
> raised in a racially integrated household and himself has black roots
> through an Afro-Peruvian great-grandfather - the father of the maternal
> grandmother who helped raise him. Zimmerman's maternal grandmother,
> Cristina, lived with the family during Zimmerman's childhood. For several
> years she babysat for two black girls who ate their meals at the Zimmerman
> house and went back and forth to school each day with the Zimmerman
> children.
>
> - At age 18, George Zimmerman got a job at an insurance agency and began
> to take classes at night to earn a license to sell insurance. In 2004,
> Zimmerman *partnered with a black friend* and opened up an Allstate
> insurance satellite office.
>
> - In June 2011, a wave of break-in robberies rattled the gated community
> where Zimmerman lived -- Retreat at Twin Lakes, in Sanford, Florida. *The
> homeowners association asked Zimmerman to launch a neighborhood
> watch. *Zimmerman
> began to carry a Kel-Tec gun (for which he had received training) on his
> regular, dog-walking patrol of the neighborhood.
>
> - *The series of break-ins in his neighborhood was committed by young
> Black men. *A black female neighbor of the Zimmermans said recent
> history should be taken into account: "Let's talk about the elephant in the
> room. I'm black, OK? There were black boys robbing houses in this
> neighborhood. That's why George was suspicious of Trayvon Martin." The
> woman declined to be identified because she anticipated backlash due to her
> race.
>
> - At least eight burglaries were reported within Twin Lakes in the 14
> months prior to the Trayvon Martin shooting, according to the Sanford
> Police Department. Yet in a series of interviews, Twin Lakes residents said
> dozens of reports of attempted break-ins and would-be burglars casing homes
> had created an atmosphere of growing fear in the neighborhood. In
> several of the incidents, witnesses identified the suspects to police as
> young black men. Twin Lakes is about 50% white, with an African-American
> and Hispanic population of about 20% each, roughly similar to the
> surrounding city of Sanford, according to U.S. Census data.
>
> - One morning in July 2011, a black teenager walked up to Zimmerman's
> front porch and stole a bicycle, neighbors told Reuters. A police report
> was taken, though the bicycle was not recovered.
>
> - But it was the August incursion into the home of Olivia Bertalan that
> really troubled the neighborhood, particularly Zimmerman. Shellie was home
> most days, taking online courses towards certification as a registered
> nurse. On August 3, Bertalan was at home with her infant son while her
> husband, Michael, was at work. She watched from a downstairs window, she
> said, as two black men repeatedly rang her doorbell and then entered
> through a sliding door at the back of the house. She ran upstairs,
> locked herself inside the boy's bedroom, armed herself with a pair of rusty
> scissors, and frantically called a police dispatcher. Police arrived just
> as the burglars - who had been trying to disconnect the couple's television
> - fled out a back door. After police left Bertalan, George Zimmerman
> arrived at the front door in a shirt and tie, she said. He gave her his
> contact numbers on an index card and invited her to visit his wife if she
> ever felt unsafe. He returned later and gave her a stronger lock to bolster
> the sliding door that had been forced open. "He was so mellow and calm,
> very helpful and very, very sweet," she said. "People were freaked out. It
> wasn't just George calling police ... we were calling police at least once
> a week." The Bertalans decided to move out, and left two days before the
> Trayvon Martin shooting.
>
> - Less than two weeks later, another Twin Lakes home was burglarized,
> police reports show. Two weeks after that, a home under construction was
> vandalized.
>
> - In September, a group of neighbors including Zimmerman approached the
> homeowners association with their concerns. Zimmerman was asked to head up
> (as "captain") a new neighborhood watch. He agreed.
>
> - On February 2, 2012, Zimmerman placed a call to Sanford police after
> spotting a young black man he recognized peering into the windows of a
> neighbor's empty home, according to several friends and neighbors. "I
> don't know what he's doing. I don't want to approach him, personally,"
> Zimmerman said in the call, which was recorded. The dispatcher advised him
> that a patrol car was on the way. By the time police arrived, according
> to the dispatch report, the suspect had fled. The "young black man"
> turned out to be Emmanuel Burgess (see below).
>
> - On February 6, the home of another Twin Lakes resident, Tatiana
> Demeacis, was burglarized. Two roofers working directly across the street
> said they saw two black men lingering in the yard at the time of the
> break-in. A new laptop and some gold jewelry were stolen. One of the
> roofers called police the next day after spotting one of the suspects among
> a group of male teenagers, three black and one white, on bicycles. Police
> found Demeacis's laptop in the backpack of 18-year-old Emmanuel Burgess,
> police reports show, and charged him with dealing in stolen
> property. Burgess
> was the same man Zimmerman had spotted on February 2. Burgess had
> committed a series of burglaries on the other side of town in 2008 and
> 2009, pleaded guilty to several, and spent all of 2010 incarcerated in a
> juvenile facility, his attorney said. He is now in jail on parole
> violations.
>
> - About two weeks after Burgess was arrested, Zimmerman noticed another
> young man in the neighborhood, acting in a way he found familiar, so he
> made another call to police. "We've had some break-ins in my neighborhood,
> and there's a real suspicious guy," Zimmerman said. The young man was
> Trayvon Martin. This time, Zimmerman was not so patient, and he disregarded
> police advice against pursuing Martin. Referring to the incident in
> February when the police had arrived late so that Emmanuel Burgess got
> away, Zimmerman muttered in an aside: "These assholes, they always get
> away." Moments later, Martin lay dead with a bullet in his chest.
>
> Read the full Reuters article for yourself,
> HERE<http://www.reuters.com/assets/print?aid=USBRE83O18H20120425>
> .
>
> *~Eowyn*
> *Dr. Eowyn <http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/author/eowyn2/>* |
> April 26, 2012 at 10:01 am | Tags: black
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