Mr. Zimmerman is not a good person and he’s not a hero. Zimmerman also isn’t a murderer and if Mr. Martin did not assault Zimmerman we wouldn’t have to argue over who screamed louder or if Martin reached for Zimmerman firearm. In America you are innocent until proven guilty and the evidence was on Zimmerman side. If you assumed guilt over this case simply based of a Hispanic man taking the life of a young black man then you are no better than the people who are responsible for getting a disproportionate amount of innocent black men imprisoned for crimes they did not commit. It’s also extremely terrifying to watch our presidents spread misinformation, lies, and stoke the flames of division and civil unrest.
We can't know if Zimmerman is or was a good person or not. But everything else you said is spot on. Unfortunately, reasonableness is lost on too many people, including Obama.
The audio was edited. Zimmerman only said "he looks black" after he was asked "black, white, or hispanic?". This is the whole problem with the Trayvon story. The media pushed a false narrative that a big, racist white wannabe cop shot a black kid because he was wearing a hoodie and walking around in a white neighborhood, when in reality a 5'8" half Latino saw a 6'2" guy wandering around in the rain who looked like he was casing units in a multicultural community that had experienced multiple break-ins, and he only fired his weapon after he was attacked and was being beaten to death.
Whether you think Zimmerman is a terrible person or not, why are you using edited call audio that removes relevant context? People got fired for this 10 years ago
@@finchborat Okay bud. Both of them put themselves into situations where they were liable to be attacked. Zimmerman was the aggressor 100%. He followed a teenager, on car and on foot down an alley, and then murdered him.
@@finchborat "How dare this child followed down the alley by a man over 20 years his senior, who was physically larger, and had a gun, fight for his life?" That's you. You're blaming Trayvon Martin even though George Zimmerman had no business following anyone down an alley. He had no business following anyone, especially after the 9-11 operator made explicitly clear that he should not follow Martin. I seriously doubt you would be arguing the same if a black man followed a white boy down an alley and then murdered him. I'll only concede this to you: I don't agree with the prosecutor charging Zimmerman with first degree murder. This was obviously second degree murder.
@@alexh5725 Trayvon shouldn't have been followed. However, Trayvon shouldn't have turned around and attacked him. The retaliation is what doomed him. If the races were switched, I'd still side with Zimmerman. It wasn't murder. It was an overrated self-defense case.
This video plays the deceptively edited call!!! The infamous doctored audio recording that got two people fired from NBC and launched a lawsuit. Look at about 47 seconds into the video, it plays the faked Zimmerman 911 call, edited to make him look racist: Zimmerman: Hey, we’ve had some break-ins in my neighborhood and there’s a real suspicious guy. This guy looks like he’s up to no good or he’s on drugs or something. He looks black. Here were the actual words of the original call: Zimmerman: This guy looks like he’s up to no good or he’s on drugs or something. It’s raining and he’s just walking around looking about. Dispatcher: Okay and this guy is he white, black or Hispanic? Zimmerman: He looks black.
B.O.: severely MK Ultra'ed. In childhood, passed around as a s e x toy . Highest ranks of satanism. Was going to be the crown prince of the NWO. Wife's a man.
...I'm a security guard, and if I have a suspicious person on my job, _I always chat them up in a super friendly way, like I don't suspect a thing._ I'm getting a good look at them, scoping them.😁 Usually they're harmless anyway, so there's no need to be all hostile. Just be kind until you absolutely have to not be kind, that's how I roll.
respect, thats the correct attitude... just give them a way out before they do any wrong and hope that they turn their life around and choose not to do bad things.. sometimes all it takes is an open conversation and they may open up and talk about some of their problems..
i cant wait for the ny times next video glorifying another criminal in george floyd. i guess the royal funeral he got and the millions of dollars awarded via tax payers to his family who didnt raise him right wasnt enough....
@@blqest125 what does anything have to do with cop murdering him 😅 speak plainly y’all just want cops to have free reign to murder whoever you don’t conceive of as an ideal citizen 😂
@@thelifeofyahya , he wasnt mudered. he died because he tested positive for a myriad of drugs in his system along with his pre existing health conditions. the man was a unhealthy, career criminal drug addict. that's what killed him. lol at ideal citizen. yea a guy with 8 prison stints isnt an ideal citizen. that's why yall get played way the way you get played with by liberal white media and the government. yall too easy to get manipulated.
@@blqest125 You missed my point being an ideal citizen or not doesn’t give the state the right to engage in behavior that facilitates your death because we live in a society with lies not in some weird fascist fanfic. We have laws we have constitutional rights that are not voided because you’ve been in jail in the past or have an addiction that’s what’s wrong with you people you’re emotionally fake it because your hearts are tied to insidious bigotry
@@thelifeofyahya , no the state engages in behavior when you break the law. which george floyd has done most of his adult life. george floyd is a literal career criminal who has had 8 different prison stints. he wasnt some innocent choir boy suddenly harassed by cops. he was wanted for another crime this time counterfeit money. the cops arrest him, put him in the squad car then due to him being high on a multitude of drugs, complains he cant breath, the cops bring him out of the car so he can "breathe" better but he start arguing and fighting and is put on a hold that is taught by police academies across america. the official city autopsy found that he did not die due to the knee in the back of the head but due to his pre existing heart conditions and all the drugs in his system. the truth isnt bigotry. its the truth. insidious describes blaming a rare case (george floyd) and treating it as some out of control epidemic when reality is the complete opposite and that people like floyd who are the ones causing the crime epidemic that you see today that is the real epidemic. you're being played with son. you are being used by liberal/progressive white media while they gain money and power while you get even more lost and confuse blaming the wrong thigs in life.
Doesn't even compare. That attack wasn't an attack based on racial prejudice, but a man with severe mental health issues. You can't argue that "because some black people commit crimes, racism is fine" which, to be clear, is the argument behind this comment. In fact, you are the problem, because you are trying to distract from the systemic problem.
Yeah, this would be a totally appropriate place to discuss that event--on the anniversary of Trayvon Martin's murder. Also, put it in proportion. I don't see the systemic, repetitive murder of White people by People of Color. Just don't see it.
@@winstonsayer most murder is intra-racial (black on black, white on white, etc). Saying 7 people were shot unarmed by police in the entire USA in one whole year is systemic murder is a gross exaggeration. People like to find incidences of rare occurrences and claim it is proof of a systematic issue.
Zimmerman didn't shoot Martin because he was a perceived threat ... he was shot because he was slamming Zimmerman's head into the pavement. Hence the Not Guilty decision.
@@kjs257incpen3 - Oh, really? Would you like to take a stab at making your case and debating like an adult, or are you are only capable of calling people dummy (or racist)?
You are using that as an excuse to withdraw from any proper communication with Obama and half of the world. By ignorance you shield yourself from any proper reflection or thoughts to be considered. Start talking about the topic and the arguments themselves, with all the vigor you can muster! He was one of the few politicians fiercely opposing the war in Iraq, which after the war in Vietnam was by far the most bloody american war with the most airstrikes on civilians. President Bush ordered that war on the most untrustworthy of premises. Yes, there were airstrikes during Obama's presidency. Yes, there were also civilian casualties. But with all the military involvement that he inherited, it was hard to not make these mistakes. Many of these were mistakes at lower levels of hierarchy as well, which of course a president also always shares responsibility for. But blaming Obama as a president of airstrikes is simply delusional and buying into all the right-wing or islamist propaganda that is out there. I am absolutely for investigations and open discussions about american war crimes during all presidencies. I think that there is too much ignorance towards their victims and what fear it strikes into the minds of many people next to them. But dismissing a president who is trying to do a better job than the warmonger before him, succeeding 90% in that, is ill-advised. Yes blame him, but with measure. Obama is about much more than airstrikes. Don't let these airstrikes be an excuse to not take part in an honest conversation. If Obama has any particular strength in my opinion, then it is his ability to be open to conversation with a very large variety of people from all over the world.
Exactly. NY Times playing the exact same games that all of them did 10 years ago. Highly dislike Trump, but the media is absolutely not an objective reporter of facts.
B.O.: severely MK Ultra'ed. In childhood, passed around as a s e x toy . Highest ranks of satanism. Was going to be the crown prince of the NWO. Wife's a man.
Blessed be the memory of John Fitzgerald Kennedy,who strived forever valiantly to restore freedoms took from our country. May his dream our eyes soon see; A World of Love and Light and Peace.
Well I think one should differentiate. Not all media are the same. You cannot just put CNN and FOX into the same bucket. But yes, media responsibility in the US is atrocious. I am so glad we have tax funded (99%) independent media in Germany. (This btw. sounds dangerous for good reasons, but oversight of that media and its funds is not done by the government but a range of people including all political opposition and societal groups like churches - if the latter should sit there is yet another question...)
@@Alritealritealrite , probably? they are the worst media news entity in society. them along with msnbc. these media networks owned/controlled by the same kind of people (people who think they are god's chosen and that they have religious edict to rule the world) have been relentlessly promoting so much political, social, and moral chaos upon american society that have caused many people their reputation, jobs, and their lives. no accountability whatsoever for the mainstream media controlled by you know who....
Fox is bad right about to the extent ABC, CBS and NBC are bad left. CNN is a mockery to the left and no longer has any credibility at all. MSNBC was actually found to not be news by the courts. They are extremist entertainers for the socialists.
@@ziziroberts8041 Lady, Trayvon had been suspended 3 times in that year for violence and the girl pretending to be his girlfriend at the trial was totally illiterate. You taught there?
The woke cult is still in denial 10 yrs later. They've ignored the part where Trayvon attacked Zimmerman and will never be convinced Zimmerman was in the right to defend himself.
justified based on a racist law. That was the point of this discussion, not all laws are moral and some need to be repealed if it contributes to systemic racism. That kind of academic discussion is the basis of critical race theory - not what you hear on fox news
In 2002/2003 rapper Ludacris was dropped from a Pepsi endorsement deal because of a Fox News Led Boycott. "Hip hop is no match for you mainstream America" -Bill O'reilly fox news on Pepsi dropping rapper Ludacris At the same time Beyonce ran with the Pepsi endorsement. A few years Later during the Zimmerman trial Trayvon was polarized by the same news network that polarized Rapper Ludacris. A few years later after that and a few videos of black people being killed we had a Pepsi sponsored Hip Hop Superbowl halftime show That people rejoiced on as a "coming of age" or a "social justice moment" Fox News has the highest ratings of any news network. I believe somewhere in this you might be able to find the examples of social conditioning. Ludacris wouldn't work for the "middle America" subconscious at the time. It makes the difference when a Police is making a split decision or an Employer is hiring an applicant or a jury is making a decision of guilty or not guilty when "hip hop" is a determining factor Respect to the late Richard Pryor who is Ludacris's uncle
As always the photography presented in the video is of the highest quality reproduction. Very nice. You forget, watching a lot of TH-cam videos, what professional production levels look like, sometimes.
We as black people have got to stop playing around with this our lives are at stake here we need either start defending ourselves or leave our racist countries from America to England
The title is wrong. America's Original Sin is Classism, not Racism. The first Africans (Angolans) brought to the American colonies in 1619 arrived as indentured servants, alongside other indentured servants from Ireland, England, and Scotland. Like the others, they were eventually freed, including Anthony Johnson, who became a successful landowner who supervised both black and white indentured servants. Johnson, not a white man, owned the first legally defined slave in the United States, another black man permanently enslaved as a penalty for attempting to escape his indenture prematurely. The first race laws were not passed for 40 years after America's colonization. Class oppression - exploitation of the poor regardless of race - preceded race oppression and class oppression. It is still the main crisis confronting the country today. This is obvious to anyone who has ever experienced poverty, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, what-have-you. A rich black man has infinite opportunities never afforded to a poor white man. If you think Will Smith Jr is disadvantaged to the average West Virginian white, I have a bridge to sell you in Florida. Racism is of course very real and causes significant additional hardships to African Americans in particular. But today, corrupt, cynical neoliberals like President Obama are responsible for far more human despair, particularly in the African American community, than racists. Bailing out bankers, subsidizing insurance companies, while their voters go bankrupt from healthcare and housing costs. People like Obama want to divert America's attention from classism to racism, so they can maintain their class based privileges. As long as working and middle class Americans are forced to talk about race, they are denied a discussion over their material class welfare. As to the event discussed in this video: I do believe Travyon Martin would still be alive if he were white. But Zimmerman was found not guilty, and Mr Martin would also be alive if he hadn't approached, tackled, and began beating Mr Zimmerman based on his initial suspicious of him. Zimmerman did not approach Mr Martin - he followed him at a distance while reporting on him. That is annoying but does not justify aggravated assault. Mr Martin made a decision to approach and attack him. He could have just stopped and forcefully said "stop following me sir, I live in this neighborhood," or even called the police on him. America needs to get real and hold both itself and its elected leaders responsible. No more false excuses or narratives.
Racism was developed as part of the process of empire, both by the Spanish and the British. The idea of whiteness conferring a different legal status originated in Jamaica (originally it was whether one was Christian or not). The concept spread rapidly to a lot of places, including the other British colonies in what is now the USA. So classism and racism were present at the founding.
@@grmpEqweer why decouple class from race? The Civil War, the bloodiest war for American life, was no more solely about class than it was solely about race. It's asinine to assert otherwise.
@@JMT1985MO It's not solely about either. However, those are two separate things that interact with each other. For instance, because of systemic racism, black people tend to be poorer. Now... Our legal system discriminates based on race in its own right, but moreso on whether you can afford a really good attorney or not. Two separate factors. But the class factor (not having $ for a good attorney) is affected by systemic racism (harder to get a job, get paid less, more likely to be fired)
the guy spied on americans, america's allies and had to get exposed by snowden, gives guns to drug cartels that got people killed, drones poor people all over the middle east and africa, conducts another regime change in libya, funded many syrian rebel groups in trying to take out bashar assad that got so many innocent syrians killed, tried to take out erdogan in turkey then ditched them that got many oficers killed, similar to what he did with iran and the failed green revolution, to top it off, he incites political riots using robert creamer in chicago, spies on his political party's opponents and what does mainstream media like nytimes do? award him a nobel peace prize. let's not forget obama was president when putin invaded ukraine the first time and took crimea while refusing to sell ukraine weapons that would have prevented the invasions while being caught in a hot mic about giving putin flexibility after the elections yet somehow its trump who was impeached twice for bs reasons while obama is worshipped by media.
@@blqest125 Had NSA explicitly told Obama that they are spying on individual Americans or just gathering "metadata"? Two different things. These are the laws that the Conservatives had instituted and employed. Some Democrats too went along with it.
You do know that 'qualified immunity' doesn't mean that cops can just do anything they want at any time, with no consequences, right? It means that they can't be held personally liable for actions taken while representing the state, if they were acting in good faith. Like, if someone intentionally made it seem like they had a lethal weapon and rushed a cop, when in reality that person was unarmed, and the cop shoots them dead, that person's family can't sue them. Or, if someone does have a weapon, and the police deploy a taser and they topple over and crack their skull, the individual officer can't be sued. Honestly, if we get rid of qualified immunity, we should just get rid of police at that point. Because if they could be held personally liable for doing the things necessary to protect themselves and society, they would never have a direct confrontation with a suspect ever again.
@@emilyfeagin2673 child? what kind of child is 6ft tall and full of tattoos smoking drugs and waving guns on social media? stick to living your nice carefree easy going life in the suburbs emily where you dont deal with people who look and act like trayvon.
Bro. U were the president. Could've created a department to prosecute police. Could've gutted funds where police were openly racist. Could've limited police s use of guns by cutting their budget where excessive force were used. It's ur job bro. People can only protest. The probs that were there when u came are still there. It didn't get solved.
Yes, shame on the LAPD detective who perjured himself under oath and also pleaded the Fifth when asked whether he planted evidence. It's pretty much impossible to convict in good faith under such circumstances.
@@dunhillsupramk3 just ask any Clovis people, where did the native Americans take them? Why are most tribes named derogatory terms? Could it be infighting🧐
Mass incarceration is the direct result of one thing and one thing only - mass criminality. Police brutality is so incredibly rare that it's a statistical outlier.
@@gaetanomaximus8650 we actually have an issue of lack of incarceration rather than mass incarceration. The evidence shows most offences don't even get reported, when they do get reported it's unlikely they get convicted and when they get convicted they get a low sentence and end up doing half of it
@@MMAGODZ Most reported crimes don't end in a prison sentence because that's stupid and unsustainable. Yes, we need 20 million people behind bars. That sounds right.
@@theironsheik6322 well not for all crimes but for major crimes people should be in jail or even executed but instead many rapists & murderers walk the streets. There isn't a mass incarceration problem it's the opposite & the evidence shows it
“Let Vladimir Putin know now that my election is over I’ll be more flexible.” - Barack Obama. Very inspiring words Barry. I hope I can grow up and sell out like you one day. Enemy of the interests of the people.
??? Wasn't Trump praising Putin throughout his entire presidency? Didn't Fox and most conservatives stated that we needed to be "strong like Putin" up until last year? I'm a bit confused on where your rhetoric is coming from
Obama never misses an opportunity to stir up tensions. At the same time, he would never speak about the Zebra murders and the murder of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom.
It's the same system. The jury was right in the Zimmerman trial. You've forgotten that those responsible for real cases like George Floyd, Botham Jean, and Daunte Wright are sitting in prison right now. The legal system is just fine.
@@finchborat Zimmerman shot and killed Martin because Martin was attacking and beating him. The ugly truth is just that simple. To raise the specter of skin color and to clothe the event in vestiges of racialization and a zeitgeist of rampant racism is nothing more than an attempt to obfuscate that single, salient truth.
Assignment of vicarious guilt on the basis of skin color is irrational, repulsive, and racist. Claiming skin color grants special privilege to do so is simply disingenuous racism.
He said, *"he's on drugs or something"* implying Trayvon was acting odd. What is wrong with Zimmerman saying that? No one knows how Trayvon Martin was acting, whether it was perfectly normal, odd, fine or otherwise. Zimmerman's *perception* of the way Trayvon was acting isn't evil or hateful, necessarily. In his very next sentence, he said, "It's raining, and he's just walking around looking about", which struck Zimmerman as odd. We also now know Trayvon was talking on the phone utilizing a headset to talk on the phone. It may have looked to Zimmerman like Trayvon was talking to himself (also odd). It could have been a hundred other things that gave the *impression* that Trayvon was acting weird or "on drugs or something". The smh is coming from people who can't or won't think their way through a controversial and divisive subject.
@@bradlee2594 Because Martin was walking around in the pouring rain in no particular hurry to get anywhere, and he also had marijuana in his system at the time of his death - which would explain why Zimmerman thought his body language was off
If you would have ever tried aNything to help your community. You would no how difficult being a community organizer is It requires dealing with all types of people and building a consensus to tackle local issues
2:42 "“Trayvon Martin looked like I did at the age of 15, 16, 17." One big difference, Barry. You didn't go sucker-punching and ground-and-pounding neighborhood watch volunteers who'd called the police because you were behaving suspiciously.
This is all well and good, but I’d like to think Obama would have the self awareness to disappear for a while after his complete failure on Russia while he was in office is now upon us. This man’s ego is limitless.
@@brianmcg5454 You don't have a right, though. You are using a platform with an account and you agreed to adhere to TH-cam's policies. TH-cam could censor you at any moment lol. Besides, no one was challenging your right to expression.
Just as with the Floyd case, this was presented to a jury that heard weeks of testimony and reviewed case evidence. They then applied that in accordance to the laws of that particular state. I realize people may not agree with an outcome but that is our system. Unless you sat in that courtroom every day of the trial like the jurors did, can you make a fair judgment?
Why do people say Blacks have it bad and have too many obstacles when Barack Obama and Michelle Obama are popular, loved, strong, independent, successful, inspiring winners?
@@emilyfeagin2673 Zimmerman was walking to his car when he go ambushed but to you that means Zimmerman started it huh. You need to spend less time studying critical race theory and more time learning critical thinking.
@@sdafasdfasdfsda Zimmerman started the altercation, Zimmerman escalated the altercation, Zimmerman having provoked Martin into physically defending himself then Intentional shot and killed the unarmed teenager. MURDER.
It is completely trayvons fault he attacked a stranger started a fight Zimmerman only defended himself never should have made it to court Zimmerman is innocent I feel bad for the guy
@@kjs257incpen3 how did Zimmerman start it by going & speaking to the kid? The kid started throwing punches & got a bullet put in him just like it goes down the streets
NTY probably still believe the Tawana Brawley story that Al Sharpton assured us was a racist attack. This whole video lost all credibility when that race grifters mug popped up.
When your chikd is followed by a racist, gunned down on the way back from buying candy at a store...text me directly. I will "pray & think" about you & yours.
the biblical concept of "original sin" is literally just "collective punishment" under the geneva convention. a literal warcrime. this critique does not stem from the authority of the geneva convention over the bible, but from the principles within. original sin punishes the WRONG person for an action. this is a SERIOUS lapse in judgement on gods part. proving god is not perfect.
believe it or not, even god contradicts god on this one. ezekiel 18:20 says "the soul who sins is the one who will die. the son will not share the guilt of the father, nor will the father share the guilt of the son." the concept of original sin, which supposedly came from god, doesnt just go against all normative ethical positions, it LITERALLY goes against god as well. we love christianity !
"perceived" Trayvon as a threat? LOL, Trayvon hid in some bushes, waited for Zimmerman to walk by, jumped him, got on top of him and started wailing punches. Yeah...I guess he did "perceive" a threat!
@@marietellez6021 Trayvon left and turned around to confront Zimmerman. This is what the girl on the phone with Trayvon and the cell phone signal backed up. Trayvon started the fight. There’s no disputing that. He never had to turn around.
Our original sin started with colonial contact. Until we fully understand what colonialism did and how it continues to work, we'll not stop racism and overt police brutality and murder. We need white women, such as in this case, to understand their inherent bias and racism, to realize that that their racism doesn't keep them safe. #BIPOC
I hope people realize that this is an opinion piece and leaves out a whole other side to the argument. They show you a bunch of little kid pics of Trayvon as if Zimmerman stocked and killed some 10 year old. Trayvon was a big dude, he had been in a fight that day, and Zimmerman sustained injury. We won't know what exactly happened, but I believe the ruling was a right one because a reasonable doubt exists.
So being big and being in a fight that day constitutes what to the situation that happened? George Zimmerman saw a black teenager walking through his neighborhood and felt that he had no right to be there so he starts to follow him and then engages with him which lead to a mother and father senselessly losing a son. Black people are allowed to take up space. It’s a free country unless your black walking through a neighborhood with a hoodie on. In those circumstances you become a vagrant, someone on drugs, etc. Had George Zimmerman stayed in his home Trayvon would be alive.
@@Heychinaa it's also not a crime to confront someone. Zimmerman claims he was attacked and used self defense. It could be true. Our court system to set up to give the defendant the benefit of the doubt. I don't know what happened for sure and neither do you!
I still don't think that captures what happened. At a time when germs and microbiology was unknown, the first contacts that spread disease were not deliberate. Had the disease exchange gone the other way, I wouldn't be accusing indigenous people of some original sin. But we absolutely bury the moral dilemmas that the Spaniards argued about in their later treatment of the remnants of that initial genocide. Our history is so rich, it's hard to boil it down into easy catch phrases.
@@cuttingman007 BLM is one of the most racist organizations around, they have some good values but they're overshadowed by their ignorance. Creating riots, wanting to lock up innocent white people because "if he were black he would be behind bars", supports defunding the police despite rising crime, calling people who want an All Loves Matter march racist for being egalitarian... BLM is a glorified terrorist organization that doesn't give af about unity.
How come New York Times stayed silent all these weeks & looking the other way rather than reporting on amnesty’s report of Israel being an APARTHEID STATE ???
No one in the comments hates anyone, we're just sick of the race card being played every day. People of all races die unjustly but we rarely hear about that because apparently every issue in America is a race issue the past couple years.
Calling Black girls and boys, guys, men and women is the problem. WP don't see children, they see adults. No other group of people is seen this way. It's so tiring and exhausting. The savagery that comes from the non-Black people is TIRING.
@@brendo7363 Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd can't be compared to Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown. They were real victims, while the other 2 were fake victims.
@@hellooutsiders6865 , henry ford, founder of ford motors tried to warn america. even wrote a book about this. his fears and what he wrote have come true.
@Meghan it’s literally the philosophy of the past 2000 years. Jesus dying removed the concept that people should suffer for the actions of their parents or ancestors. When you are born, you have no original sin. For thousands of years before, people were seen as born with original sins.
Mr. Zimmerman is not a good person and he’s not a hero. Zimmerman also isn’t a murderer and if Mr. Martin did not assault Zimmerman we wouldn’t have to argue over who screamed louder or if Martin reached for Zimmerman firearm. In America you are innocent until proven guilty and the evidence was on Zimmerman side. If you assumed guilt over this case simply based of a Hispanic man taking the life of a young black man then you are no better than the people who are responsible for getting a disproportionate amount of innocent black men imprisoned for crimes they did not commit. It’s also extremely terrifying to watch our presidents spread misinformation, lies, and stoke the flames of division and civil unrest.
We can't know if Zimmerman is or was a good person or not. But everything else you said is spot on. Unfortunately, reasonableness is lost on too many people, including Obama.
The audio was edited. Zimmerman only said "he looks black" after he was asked "black, white, or hispanic?". This is the whole problem with the Trayvon story. The media pushed a false narrative that a big, racist white wannabe cop shot a black kid because he was wearing a hoodie and walking around in a white neighborhood, when in reality a 5'8" half Latino saw a 6'2" guy wandering around in the rain who looked like he was casing units in a multicultural community that had experienced multiple break-ins, and he only fired his weapon after he was attacked and was being beaten to death.
super crazy how even ex president Obama sits down to lie!!!!!! What a huge liar
Cringe
How does looting a Nike store advance civil rights?
That question sounds racist and the hallmark of a "white supremacist."
It's a civil right to have dem fly kicks on yo feets!
@@shabeki Afraid to face the truth?
@@dvorak88dv Are you incapable of recognizing sarcasm?
Whether you think Zimmerman is a terrible person or not, why are you using edited call audio that removes relevant context? People got fired for this 10 years ago
the context is George was murdering trayvon
@@notillatall It was murder dummy
@@kjs257incpen3 it was self defence and it was ruled as such 😀
@@jeanniemaycrawford4466 It wasn’t self defense dummy it was murder
@@jeanniemaycrawford4466 it was murder ya dingus
Ten years ago, they called Zimmerman a racist murderer. Last year, they did the same thing to Kyle Rittenhouse.
And those throwing out those labels were all wrong.
Both were unfairly targeted for defending themselves.
@@finchborat Okay bud. Both of them put themselves into situations where they were liable to be attacked. Zimmerman was the aggressor 100%. He followed a teenager, on car and on foot down an alley, and then murdered him.
@@alexh5725 Trayvon was the aggressor. Trayvon turned around and fought with a guy with a gun.
He's responsible for his own death.
@@finchborat "How dare this child followed down the alley by a man over 20 years his senior, who was physically larger, and had a gun, fight for his life?" That's you. You're blaming Trayvon Martin even though George Zimmerman had no business following anyone down an alley. He had no business following anyone, especially after the 9-11 operator made explicitly clear that he should not follow Martin. I seriously doubt you would be arguing the same if a black man followed a white boy down an alley and then murdered him. I'll only concede this to you: I don't agree with the prosecutor charging Zimmerman with first degree murder. This was obviously second degree murder.
@@alexh5725 Trayvon shouldn't have been followed. However, Trayvon shouldn't have turned around and attacked him. The retaliation is what doomed him.
If the races were switched, I'd still side with Zimmerman.
It wasn't murder. It was an overrated self-defense case.
Why is NYT using deceptively edited audio of the Zimmerman call?
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Because only an altered version of the REAL call fits in with the narrative of racism.
Because they're the New York Times
This video plays the deceptively edited call!!! The infamous doctored audio recording that got two people fired from NBC and launched a lawsuit. Look at about 47 seconds into the video, it plays the faked Zimmerman 911 call, edited to make him look racist:
Zimmerman: Hey, we’ve had some break-ins in my neighborhood and there’s a real suspicious guy. This guy looks like he’s up to no good or he’s on drugs or something. He looks black.
Here were the actual words of the original call:
Zimmerman: This guy looks like he’s up to no good or he’s on drugs or something. It’s raining and he’s just walking around looking about.
Dispatcher: Okay and this guy is he white, black or Hispanic?
Zimmerman: He looks black.
How is it edited? Prove it.
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@@lightblue254 You can read the whole dispatch online
B.O.: severely MK Ultra'ed. In childhood, passed around as a s e x toy . Highest ranks of satanism. Was going to be the crown prince of the NWO. Wife's a man.
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Trayvon Martin was not murdered.
Yes he was murdered dummy
...I'm a security guard, and if I have a suspicious person on my job, _I always chat them up in a super friendly way, like I don't suspect a thing._ I'm getting a good look at them, scoping them.😁
Usually they're harmless anyway, so there's no need to be all hostile.
Just be kind until you absolutely have to not be kind, that's how I roll.
true 'dat. i worked security also a (corporate) buildings and did the same. intellect/training over "emotion"
Great intuition on your part. Keep making a difference.
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B.O. is hitler's grand child, did you know that?
respect, thats the correct attitude... just give them a way out before they do any wrong and hope that they turn their life around and choose not to do bad things.. sometimes all it takes is an open conversation and they may open up and talk about some of their problems..
Professional full time victims. At every turn on every occasion yet zero personal responsibility ever.
Obama should be embarrassed to be a part of this video showing the edited call
Obama is a racist and race hustler
What a joke.
i cant wait for the ny times next video glorifying another criminal in george floyd. i guess the royal funeral he got and the millions of dollars awarded via tax payers to his family who didnt raise him right wasnt enough....
@@blqest125 what does anything have to do with cop murdering him 😅 speak plainly y’all just want cops to have free reign to murder whoever you don’t conceive of as an ideal citizen 😂
@@thelifeofyahya , he wasnt mudered. he died because he tested positive for a myriad of drugs in his system along with his pre existing health conditions. the man was a unhealthy, career criminal drug addict. that's what killed him. lol at ideal citizen. yea a guy with 8 prison stints isnt an ideal citizen. that's why yall get played way the way you get played with by liberal white media and the government. yall too easy to get manipulated.
@@blqest125 You missed my point being an ideal citizen or not doesn’t give the state the right to engage in behavior that facilitates your death because we live in a society with lies not in some weird fascist fanfic. We have laws we have constitutional rights that are not voided because you’ve been in jail in the past or have an addiction that’s what’s wrong with you people you’re emotionally fake it because your hearts are tied to insidious bigotry
@@thelifeofyahya , no the state engages in behavior when you break the law. which george floyd has done most of his adult life. george floyd is a literal career criminal who has had 8 different prison stints. he wasnt some innocent choir boy suddenly harassed by cops. he was wanted for another crime this time counterfeit money. the cops arrest him, put him in the squad car then due to him being high on a multitude of drugs, complains he cant breath, the cops bring him out of the car so he can "breathe" better but he start arguing and fighting and is put on a hold that is taught by police academies across america. the official city autopsy found that he did not die due to the knee in the back of the head but due to his pre existing heart conditions and all the drugs in his system.
the truth isnt bigotry. its the truth. insidious describes blaming a rare case (george floyd) and treating it as some out of control epidemic when reality is the complete opposite and that people like floyd who are the ones causing the crime epidemic that you see today that is the real epidemic. you're being played with son. you are being used by liberal/progressive white media while they gain money and power while you get even more lost and confuse blaming the wrong thigs in life.
The NewYork Times is a JOKE !
What happened to that guy that ran over all those people in the Christmas parade? Haven’t heard a peep about that?😳
Doesn't even compare. That attack wasn't an attack based on racial prejudice, but a man with severe mental health issues. You can't argue that "because some black people commit crimes, racism is fine" which, to be clear, is the argument behind this comment. In fact, you are the problem, because you are trying to distract from the systemic problem.
@@alexh5725 keep drinking the koolaid
Yeah, this would be a totally appropriate place to discuss that event--on the anniversary of Trayvon Martin's murder. Also, put it in proportion. I don't see the systemic, repetitive murder of White people by People of Color. Just don't see it.
@@winstonsayer most murder is intra-racial (black on black, white on white, etc). Saying 7 people were shot unarmed by police in the entire USA in one whole year is systemic murder is a gross exaggeration. People like to find incidences of rare occurrences and claim it is proof of a systematic issue.
Does make the money they want at NYT.
This is the biggest form of horsec**p. Trying to hijack a justified shooting into something that it wasn't...lol.
I'd say more of justified self-defense. Because that's what it was.
Like Kyle Rittenhouse, it was an overblown self-defense case.
@@finchborat It wasn’t self defense dummy it was murder
Could the New York Times be more gutless?
Zimmerman didn't shoot Martin because he was a perceived threat ... he was shot because he was slamming Zimmerman's head into the pavement. Hence the Not Guilty decision.
Source: Trust Me Bro
@@ShadowWizard123 - Source: Overwhelming evidence. Ignorance of the evidence can be remedied.
That isn’t what happened dummy quit spreading false information
@@kjs257incpen3 - Oh, really? Would you like to take a stab at making your case and debating like an adult, or are you are only capable of calling people dummy (or racist)?
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Hey look it's Barack Obama the king of airstrikes.
and causes of the current crisis in Ukraine
You are using that as an excuse to withdraw from any proper communication with Obama and half of the world. By ignorance you shield yourself from any proper reflection or thoughts to be considered. Start talking about the topic and the arguments themselves, with all the vigor you can muster!
He was one of the few politicians fiercely opposing the war in Iraq, which after the war in Vietnam was by far the most bloody american war with the most airstrikes on civilians. President Bush ordered that war on the most untrustworthy of premises. Yes, there were airstrikes during Obama's presidency. Yes, there were also civilian casualties. But with all the military involvement that he inherited, it was hard to not make these mistakes. Many of these were mistakes at lower levels of hierarchy as well, which of course a president also always shares responsibility for. But blaming Obama as a president of airstrikes is simply delusional and buying into all the right-wing or islamist propaganda that is out there. I am absolutely for investigations and open discussions about american war crimes during all presidencies. I think that there is too much ignorance towards their victims and what fear it strikes into the minds of many people next to them. But dismissing a president who is trying to do a better job than the warmonger before him, succeeding 90% in that, is ill-advised. Yes blame him, but with measure. Obama is about much more than airstrikes. Don't let these airstrikes be an excuse to not take part in an honest conversation. If Obama has any particular strength in my opinion, then it is his ability to be open to conversation with a very large variety of people from all over the world.
@@nilsp9426 you are absolutely correct. He was very open to dialogue and being flexible with people all over the world, like Putin.
“…Hey looks black”…-- what about the part when the operator ASKS WHAT COLOR IS HE?
Is because racism , racists polisman
Exactly. NY Times playing the exact same games that all of them did 10 years ago. Highly dislike Trump, but the media is absolutely not an objective reporter of facts.
@@marietellez6021 it’s perfectly reasonable for police to ask the race of the perp.
B.O.: severely MK Ultra'ed. In childhood, passed around as a s e x toy . Highest ranks of satanism. Was going to be the crown prince of the NWO. Wife's a man.
@Rob Wright maybe if whites stopped killing black people you’re precious city wouldn’t get burned down
Total waste of time.
Blessed be the memory of John Fitzgerald Kennedy,who strived forever valiantly to restore freedoms took from our country. May his dream our eyes soon see; A World of Love and Light and Peace.
Main-stream Media never felt the amount of pain they deserve for what they've done into our society
Well I think one should differentiate. Not all media are the same. You cannot just put CNN and FOX into the same bucket. But yes, media responsibility in the US is atrocious. I am so glad we have tax funded (99%) independent media in Germany. (This btw. sounds dangerous for good reasons, but oversight of that media and its funds is not done by the government but a range of people including all political opposition and societal groups like churches - if the latter should sit there is yet another question...)
@@nilsp9426 CNN is probably worse than FOX at the current time
@@Alritealritealrite , probably? they are the worst media news entity in society. them along with msnbc. these media networks owned/controlled by the same kind of people (people who think they are god's chosen and that they have religious edict to rule the world) have been relentlessly promoting so much political, social, and moral chaos upon american society that have caused many people their reputation, jobs, and their lives. no accountability whatsoever for the mainstream media controlled by you know who....
B.O. is hitler's grand child, did you know that?
Fox is bad right about to the extent ABC, CBS and NBC are bad left. CNN is a mockery to the left and no longer has any credibility at all. MSNBC was actually found to not be news by the courts. They are extremist entertainers for the socialists.
'Maybe the only difference between us was luck.'
A moving and truthful opinion piece.
Based on fact. Refreshing.
- every Libyan still alive.
I hope your neighborhood fills up with Michael Browns, Trayvons, Ahmuads and George Floyds
@@blackout07blue I have recommended to the NYT to do a film series about your nation and several others in Africa suffering from famine. I hear you.
@@brendo7363 I used to teach in that neighborhood. Love thy neighbour as thyself. Have a wonderful life.
@@ziziroberts8041 Lady, Trayvon had been suspended 3 times in that year for violence and the girl pretending to be his girlfriend at the trial was totally illiterate. You taught there?
didn't the court rule that George Zimmerman was justified in shooting Trayvon Martin.... am i missing something here??
Jury of 12 did unanimously.
The woke cult is still in denial 10 yrs later. They've ignored the part where Trayvon attacked Zimmerman and will never be convinced Zimmerman was in the right to defend himself.
justified based on a racist law. That was the point of this discussion, not all laws are moral and some need to be repealed if it contributes to systemic racism. That kind of academic discussion is the basis of critical race theory - not what you hear on fox news
@@Davao420 self defense laws are racist? Ummm I don't think so.
@@Davao420 k... explain what part was racist..
"George Zimmerman was acquitted on all charges." Wikipedia
An acquittal was guaranteed on those facts.
Thank god
George survived an attack by a thug and then survived an attack by the Mainstream Media with Obama leading the way.
Race bait attempt failed
In 2002/2003 rapper Ludacris was dropped from a Pepsi endorsement deal because of a Fox News Led Boycott. "Hip hop is no match for you mainstream America" -Bill O'reilly fox news on Pepsi dropping rapper Ludacris
At the same time Beyonce ran with the Pepsi endorsement.
A few years Later during the Zimmerman trial Trayvon was polarized by the same news network that polarized Rapper Ludacris.
A few years later after that and a few videos of black people being killed we had a Pepsi sponsored Hip Hop Superbowl halftime show That people rejoiced on as a "coming of age" or a "social justice moment"
Fox News has the highest ratings of any news network.
I believe somewhere in this you might be able to find the examples of social conditioning.
Ludacris wouldn't work for the "middle America" subconscious at the time.
It makes the difference when a Police is making a split decision or an Employer is hiring an applicant or a jury is making a decision of guilty or not guilty when "hip hop" is a determining factor
Respect to the late Richard Pryor who is Ludacris's uncle
Why does Obama look like he is dying
We all are
@@BbananaBbread because you are
This man did more for lgbtq deviants than he did for Black people.
I’ll say this. People that embraces other peoples sinful nature are heading to destruction!
As always the photography presented in the video is of the highest quality reproduction. Very nice. You forget, watching a lot of TH-cam videos, what professional production levels look like, sometimes.
If only their journalism reflected the quality of their photography.
Sddddss
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We as black people have got to stop playing around with this our lives are at stake here we need either start defending ourselves or leave our racist countries from America to England
@Debra Little black on black crime will never out do white on black crime
Wow you are clueless
Still playing games with the audio. Splicing it together in a way that was not in context at all.
Instantly I have to doubt every word of this video.
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The title is wrong. America's Original Sin is Classism, not Racism. The first Africans (Angolans) brought to the American colonies in 1619 arrived as indentured servants, alongside other indentured servants from Ireland, England, and Scotland. Like the others, they were eventually freed, including Anthony Johnson, who became a successful landowner who supervised both black and white indentured servants. Johnson, not a white man, owned the first legally defined slave in the United States, another black man permanently enslaved as a penalty for attempting to escape his indenture prematurely. The first race laws were not passed for 40 years after America's colonization. Class oppression - exploitation of the poor regardless of race - preceded race oppression and class oppression. It is still the main crisis confronting the country today. This is obvious to anyone who has ever experienced poverty, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, what-have-you. A rich black man has infinite opportunities never afforded to a poor white man. If you think Will Smith Jr is disadvantaged to the average West Virginian white, I have a bridge to sell you in Florida.
Racism is of course very real and causes significant additional hardships to African Americans in particular. But today, corrupt, cynical neoliberals like President Obama are responsible for far more human despair, particularly in the African American community, than racists. Bailing out bankers, subsidizing insurance companies, while their voters go bankrupt from healthcare and housing costs. People like Obama want to divert America's attention from classism to racism, so they can maintain their class based privileges. As long as working and middle class Americans are forced to talk about race, they are denied a discussion over their material class welfare.
As to the event discussed in this video: I do believe Travyon Martin would still be alive if he were white. But Zimmerman was found not guilty, and Mr Martin would also be alive if he hadn't approached, tackled, and began beating Mr Zimmerman based on his initial suspicious of him. Zimmerman did not approach Mr Martin - he followed him at a distance while reporting on him. That is annoying but does not justify aggravated assault. Mr Martin made a decision to approach and attack him. He could have just stopped and forcefully said "stop following me sir, I live in this neighborhood," or even called the police on him. America needs to get real and hold both itself and its elected leaders responsible. No more false excuses or narratives.
Racism was developed as part of the process of empire, both by the Spanish and the British.
The idea of whiteness conferring a different legal status originated in Jamaica (originally it was whether one was Christian or not). The concept spread rapidly to a lot of places, including the other British colonies in what is now the USA.
So classism and racism were present at the founding.
And honestly, the US was created by ethnic cleansing of native people, too. So it's racism all the way down.
@@grmpEqweer why decouple class from race? The Civil War, the bloodiest war for American life, was no more solely about class than it was solely about race. It's asinine to assert otherwise.
@@JMT1985MO
It's not solely about either. However, those are two separate things that interact with each other.
For instance, because of systemic racism, black people tend to be poorer.
Now...
Our legal system discriminates based on race in its own right, but moreso on whether you can afford a really good attorney or not.
Two separate factors.
But the class factor (not having $ for a good attorney) is affected by systemic racism (harder to get a job, get paid less, more likely to be fired)
@@JMT1985MO
I have to go to work now.
In case anyone had forgotten, this video serves as a useful reminder that Obama is devoid of honesty and moral character.
the guy spied on americans, america's allies and had to get exposed by snowden, gives guns to drug cartels that got people killed, drones poor people all over the middle east and africa, conducts another regime change in libya, funded many syrian rebel groups in trying to take out bashar assad that got so many innocent syrians killed, tried to take out erdogan in turkey then ditched them that got many oficers killed, similar to what he did with iran and the failed green revolution, to top it off, he incites political riots using robert creamer in chicago, spies on his political party's opponents and what does mainstream media like nytimes do?
award him a nobel peace prize. let's not forget obama was president when putin invaded ukraine the first time and took crimea while refusing to sell ukraine weapons that would have prevented the invasions while being caught in a hot mic about giving putin flexibility after the elections yet somehow its trump who was impeached twice for bs reasons while obama is worshipped by media.
@@blqest125 Had NSA explicitly told Obama that they are spying on individual Americans or just gathering "metadata"? Two different things. These are the laws that the Conservatives had instituted and employed. Some Democrats too went along with it.
Obama Derange Syndrome (ODS) is strong with this one. We are talking about orange, you prattle about asphalt.
B.O. is hitler's grand child, did you know that?
Agreed
Nice edited recording, and self defense is not murder.
It wasn’t Self Defense dummy it was murder
Why do they hate being black so much. Stop crying about it. It's cringing now.
Where's the full documentary?
End qualified immunity to end police brutality.
lol as if that's gonna end police brutality. it wont. the police will always be brutal because people that police have to deal with are brutal.
End criminal brutality
Make the Pension funds have to pay the settlements. Hit them where it hurts.
You do know that 'qualified immunity' doesn't mean that cops can just do anything they want at any time, with no consequences, right? It means that they can't be held personally liable for actions taken while representing the state, if they were acting in good faith. Like, if someone intentionally made it seem like they had a lethal weapon and rushed a cop, when in reality that person was unarmed, and the cop shoots them dead, that person's family can't sue them. Or, if someone does have a weapon, and the police deploy a taser and they topple over and crack their skull, the individual officer can't be sued.
Honestly, if we get rid of qualified immunity, we should just get rid of police at that point. Because if they could be held personally liable for doing the things necessary to protect themselves and society, they would never have a direct confrontation with a suspect ever again.
What role did qualified immunity play in this case exactly?
Obama should stay out of that George was found not guilty maybe trevon shouldn't be punching people.
"punching people is a killable offence" 😂
@@tgerard3860 hey if someone punches me I'm shooting them so I guess it is , keep your hands to yourself.
Zimmerman did nothing wrong.
Where is he now looking crazy hiding out he started all this mess not minding his business trying to be a vigilante
Other than being a self important little fart that wanted wanted to play cops and robbers
And ended up killing a child because he could
@@emilyfeagin2673 child? what kind of child is 6ft tall and full of tattoos smoking drugs and waving guns on social media? stick to living your nice carefree easy going life in the suburbs emily where you dont deal with people who look and act like trayvon.
@@blqest125 Emily's middle name must be Karen.
Bro. U were the president. Could've created a department to prosecute police. Could've gutted funds where police were openly racist. Could've limited police s use of guns by cutting their budget where excessive force were used. It's ur job bro. People can only protest. The probs that were there when u came are still there. It didn't get solved.
BARACK your Bro did what su posted to be done , our great incumbent President did more than Trump the cv19 CLOWN
He’s a neoliberal con man
Why it say in the title “President Obama”you guys redarted he outta office since 2016
Listen here man, he's too good of a president that they need to say President Obama instead of Former President Obama.
@@PrimmBlockGame he a good speaker sure but he wasn’t that fantastic of a president your country is still broken
@@ErnestKhamilov Thailand is literally doing good rn.
@@PrimmBlockGame lol thought you was a murican my bad dude
Obummer the classic Charlton!
Justice is not guaranteed, just ask the families of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. And many, many others.
just ask any native American...
Yes, shame on the LAPD detective who perjured himself under oath and also pleaded the Fifth when asked whether he planted evidence. It's pretty much impossible to convict in good faith under such circumstances.
Trayvon can't be compared to those 2. They, unlike Trayvon, were real victims of injustice.
@@dunhillsupramk3 just ask any Clovis people, where did the native Americans take them? Why are most tribes named derogatory terms? Could it be infighting🧐
@@finchborat the prosecution concocted a fake witness (Rachel Jeantel)
LOL DIAMOND EUGENE
Uh, not really. You just tried to capitalize on it while doing nothing about mass incarceration or police brutality.
Mass incarceration is the direct result of one thing and one thing only - mass criminality. Police brutality is so incredibly rare that it's a statistical outlier.
@@gaetanomaximus8650 we actually have an issue of lack of incarceration rather than mass incarceration. The evidence shows most offences don't even get reported, when they do get reported it's unlikely they get convicted and when they get convicted they get a low sentence and end up doing half of it
@@gaetanomaximus8650 If I criminalize tomatoes, every farmer goes to jail. Use your head.
@@MMAGODZ Most reported crimes don't end in a prison sentence because that's stupid and unsustainable. Yes, we need 20 million people behind bars. That sounds right.
@@theironsheik6322 well not for all crimes but for major crimes people should be in jail or even executed but instead many rapists & murderers walk the streets. There isn't a mass incarceration problem it's the opposite & the evidence shows it
Panderer in Chief
He was our most overrated, overhyped, and overly defended president.
Just keep opening terrible scars. That way, we can perpetuate this devisive hate for political gains.
Well chosen screen name. Forgetting, ignoring isn't fixing. How many can you safely shelter in your bubble?
edited audio - misleading intentionally
“Let Vladimir Putin know now that my election is over I’ll be more flexible.” - Barack Obama. Very inspiring words Barry. I hope I can grow up and sell out like you one day. Enemy of the interests of the people.
The interest of people should be life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
??? Wasn't Trump praising Putin throughout his entire presidency? Didn't Fox and most conservatives stated that we needed to be "strong like Putin" up until last year? I'm a bit confused on where your rhetoric is coming from
Talk about "Russian collusion" !
Obama never misses an opportunity to stir up tensions. At the same time, he would never speak about the Zebra murders and the murder of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom.
Nothing has changed, two different legal systems remain.
no!!! Joe Biden nominated a black female to the supreme court, its all changed now its Biden that changed everything for the better...
@Debra Little so black ppl ain't going to help black ppl??? i mean she is the law so...
It's the same system. The jury was right in the Zimmerman trial.
You've forgotten that those responsible for real cases like George Floyd, Botham Jean, and Daunte Wright are sitting in prison right now.
The legal system is just fine.
@@finchborat Zimmerman shot and killed Martin because Martin was attacking and beating him. The ugly truth is just that simple. To raise the specter of skin color and to clothe the event in vestiges of racialization and a zeitgeist of rampant racism is nothing more than an attempt to obfuscate that single, salient truth.
@@ebenezer1690 It is that simple, yet the woke crowd will never accept it.
Assignment of vicarious guilt on the basis of skin color is irrational, repulsive, and racist. Claiming skin color grants special privilege to do so is simply disingenuous racism.
This dude said it looks like he’s on drugs or something smh 👿👿
He said, *"he's on drugs or something"* implying Trayvon was acting odd. What is wrong with Zimmerman saying that? No one knows how Trayvon Martin was acting, whether it was perfectly normal, odd, fine or otherwise. Zimmerman's *perception* of the way Trayvon was acting isn't evil or hateful, necessarily. In his very next sentence, he said, "It's raining, and he's just walking around looking about", which struck Zimmerman as odd. We also now know Trayvon was talking on the phone utilizing a headset to talk on the phone. It may have looked to Zimmerman like Trayvon was talking to himself (also odd). It could have been a hundred other things that gave the *impression* that Trayvon was acting weird or "on drugs or something". The smh is coming from people who can't or won't think their way through a controversial and divisive subject.
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@@bradlee2594 Because Martin was walking around in the pouring rain in no particular hurry to get anywhere, and he also had marijuana in his system at the time of his death - which would explain why Zimmerman thought his body language was off
@@sean2015 Just hush at this point please
"When truth is found to be lies, then the liar will be that." The Buddha.
Hey, Barry - The 1980's called. They want their community activist back. Signed, "Putie"
If you would have ever tried aNything to help your community. You would no how difficult being a community organizer is
It requires dealing with all types of people and building a consensus to tackle local issues
2:42 "“Trayvon Martin looked like I did at the age of 15, 16, 17."
One big difference, Barry. You didn't go sucker-punching and ground-and-pounding neighborhood watch volunteers who'd called the police because you were behaving suspiciously.
Verdict not guilty
Kid was just walking down the street
Good thing TH-cam disabled downvotes.
Trayvon attacked the dude lol
If you were being followed and chased you wouldn’t defend yourself?
@@Copeharder99 Zimmerman didn't chase nor attack him
@@tbone9803 Trayvon was simply minding his business until he was followed by Zimmerman just because he was a black kid in a hood
No he didn’t lol
@@kjs257incpen3 Just hush!
This is all well and good, but I’d like to think Obama would have the self awareness to disappear for a while after his complete failure on Russia while he was in office is now upon us. This man’s ego is limitless.
This video was made months ago.
@@transfo47 fair enough. I still reserve my right to write judgmental TH-cam comments though.
@@brianmcg5454 You don't have a right, though. You are using a platform with an account and you agreed to adhere to TH-cam's policies. TH-cam could censor you at any moment lol. Besides, no one was challenging your right to expression.
@@vinny9152 all true, I was just making an attempt at humor. I’ll try harder next time. I appreciate the lesson.
@@brianmcg5454 Lol there's no lesson, I just felt like being a keyboard warrior today
The original sin is in Ukraine
Bye
@@gcboy16 Hi Google,
nice bot, mind if I pry it open and see if jellybeans come out?
original sin committed by nobel peace prize war criminal president obama.
Just as with the Floyd case, this was presented to a jury that heard weeks of testimony and reviewed case evidence. They then applied that in accordance to the laws of that particular state. I realize people may not agree with an outcome but that is our system. Unless you sat in that courtroom every day of the trial like the jurors did, can you make a fair judgment?
The cases are won and lost by the lawyers. Guilt is secondary.
Past history shows KKK members used to be on the juror. The the stand your ground was started by NRA white woman. Do some research.
@@goat7844 Past history also shows OJ Simpson got away with murder.
RIP Trayvon Martin. Love to you and your family ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Amen
@@marietellez6021 awomen
Go read the court case... you are praising a VIOLENT CRIMINAL WHO DESERVED TO BE ENDED
@@Motivatedk9
I believe that kid was walking minding his business until he was confronted.
@@Motivatedk9 You should be in Prison for defamation of this sensitive case ✅
Nice fake edit New York Times
Obama, as usual, is full of it.
Why do people say Blacks have it bad and have too many obstacles when Barack Obama and Michelle Obama are popular, loved, strong, independent, successful, inspiring winners?
Do people forget that Trayvon was a criminal, committing a crime when he was killed (not murdered) by a victim protecting himself!!!???
Zimmerman started it. If you don’t want to get your head bounced off the side walk, stay in the car
@@emilyfeagin2673 Zimmerman was walking to his car when he go ambushed but to you that means Zimmerman started it huh. You need to spend less time studying critical race theory and more time learning critical thinking.
@@sdafasdfasdfsda That isn’t what happened dummy quit spreading false information
Trayvon wasn’t a Criminal he was protecting himself dummy just say you’re racist and go on
@@sdafasdfasdfsda Zimmerman started the altercation, Zimmerman escalated the altercation, Zimmerman having provoked Martin into physically defending himself then Intentional shot and killed the unarmed teenager. MURDER.
Worst mistake bringing those people over here. Where are those targets sold?
The liar Obama
Please point out a president that has never lied
@@kondoneit ever heard of honest abe? He couldnt have lied its in the name.
The liar is you talking to yourself. No one believes you either. Get off social media ANTISOCIALIST, you aint ready for truth yet.
It is completely trayvons fault he attacked a stranger started a fight Zimmerman only defended himself never should have made it to court Zimmerman is innocent I feel bad for the guy
It’s not Trayvons fault dummy cause Zimmerman started it just say you’re racist and go on
@@kjs257incpen3 how did Zimmerman start it by going & speaking to the kid? The kid started throwing punches & got a bullet put in him just like it goes down the streets
@@MMAGODZ Zimmerman was stalking and messing that with that kid for no good reason
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NO TRAYVON did it when he ATTACKED a man with a GUN DUH
The other way around: th-cam.com/video/2KfiGcGhyjY/w-d-xo.html
NO HE DIDN’T DUMMY QUIT SPREADING FALSE INFORMATION
Obamanation of desolation
NY Times:. Like Mr. Obama, you clearly have not done your homework.
NTY probably still believe the Tawana Brawley story that Al Sharpton assured us was a racist attack. This whole video lost all credibility when that race grifters mug popped up.
Why their are African American and no British American, Polish American etc.
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is what’s called propaganda!
When your chikd is followed by a racist, gunned down on the way back from buying candy at a store...text me directly. I will "pray & think" about you & yours.
He was a thug 😂
No he wasn’t dummy 😂
Thanks Obama for cleaning up Chicago 😂😂you did a swell job clown
When was he Mayir of Chicago? Or Chief if Police. Or on the city Council?
its ok, historical democrat leadership will eventually clean up chicago. soros funded and racist lori lightfoot will save the day!!!!
@@blqest125 yep, the democrats will clean up every city they control...eventually lol
the biblical concept of "original sin" is literally just "collective punishment" under the geneva convention. a literal warcrime.
this critique does not stem from the authority of the geneva convention over the bible, but from the principles within.
original sin punishes the WRONG person for an action. this is a SERIOUS lapse in judgement on gods part.
proving god is not perfect.
believe it or not, even god contradicts god on this one. ezekiel 18:20 says "the soul who sins is the one who will die. the son will not share the guilt of the father, nor will the father share the guilt of the son." the concept of original sin, which supposedly came from god, doesnt just go against all normative ethical positions, it LITERALLY goes against god as well. we love christianity !
@@ab-wj8yg prove it
@@ab-wj8yg you herd it here first folks, cancel the justice system its no longer needed. Nobody is guilty.
"perceived" Trayvon as a threat? LOL, Trayvon hid in some bushes, waited for Zimmerman to walk by, jumped him, got on top of him and started wailing punches. Yeah...I guess he did "perceive" a threat!
You are absolutely incorrect
That’s not what happened, Trayvon IS THE VICTIM HERE
@@marietellez6021 In what way?
You do know that to “jump” someone takes multiple people, right?
@@marietellez6021 Trayvon left and turned around to confront Zimmerman. This is what the girl on the phone with Trayvon and the cell phone signal backed up. Trayvon started the fight. There’s no disputing that. He never had to turn around.
cringe propaganda piece
Our original sin started with colonial contact. Until we fully understand what colonialism did and how it continues to work, we'll not stop racism and overt police brutality and murder. We need white women, such as in this case, to understand their inherent bias and racism, to realize that that their racism doesn't keep them safe.
#BIPOC
If you want to see some real racism simply roll some BLM footage. If you want to hear real racism flip on your local rap station
Anyone who says slavery is an American original sin that neoliberal lie.. Native ppl been here before
May the future bring brilliant days and peaceful nights. Best wishes to all.
No Anti-Black crime though 🤔.
I hope people realize that this is an opinion piece and leaves out a whole other side to the argument. They show you a bunch of little kid pics of Trayvon as if Zimmerman stocked and killed some 10 year old. Trayvon was a big dude, he had been in a fight that day, and Zimmerman sustained injury. We won't know what exactly happened, but I believe the ruling was a right one because a reasonable doubt exists.
So being big and being in a fight that day constitutes what to the situation that happened? George Zimmerman saw a black teenager walking through his neighborhood and felt that he had no right to be there so he starts to follow him and then engages with him which lead to a mother and father senselessly losing a son. Black people are allowed to take up space. It’s a free country unless your black walking through a neighborhood with a hoodie on. In those circumstances you become a vagrant, someone on drugs, etc. Had George Zimmerman stayed in his home Trayvon would be alive.
Trayvon and Zimmerman was African Americans that’s why they are dead Now , be nice
@@Heychinaa it's also not a crime to confront someone. Zimmerman claims he was attacked and used self defense. It could be true. Our court system to set up to give the defendant the benefit of the doubt. I don't know what happened for sure and neither do you!
@@marietellez6021 life's more complicated than that.
George could have stayed in his vehicle.
But his privilege protected him and he knew it
What happened to the Indigenous tribes is America's original sin.
I still don't think that captures what happened. At a time when germs and microbiology was unknown, the first contacts that spread disease were not deliberate. Had the disease exchange gone the other way, I wouldn't be accusing indigenous people of some original sin. But we absolutely bury the moral dilemmas that the Spaniards argued about in their later treatment of the remnants of that initial genocide. Our history is so rich, it's hard to boil it down into easy catch phrases.
Who takes this seriously when you have al sharpton giving his unwanted opinion !🤡🤡🤡🤡
That is Al Sharptongue.
Is this video from 2022, 2021, 2020…? Thx.
interesting soft framework here nyt lol
HE IS A FRAUD
Totally disagree!
Yes me too I disagree with the United Racists of America , that boy was murdered by criminals
Which is why this video is necessary.
Ya racist people always oppose BLM
@@marietellez6021 So Trayvon didn't jump Zimmerman, knock him down and start beating him? Ohhh, we just gonna ignore that part huh.
@@cuttingman007 BLM is one of the most racist organizations around, they have some good values but they're overshadowed by their ignorance. Creating riots, wanting to lock up innocent white people because "if he were black he would be behind bars", supports defunding the police despite rising crime, calling people who want an All Loves Matter march racist for being egalitarian...
BLM is a glorified terrorist organization that doesn't give af about unity.
It's always the same characters
How come New York Times stayed silent all these weeks & looking the other way rather than reporting on amnesty’s report of Israel being an APARTHEID STATE ???
Go shill some more for wallstreet obombya
The hate in the comments, makes that video even more relevant.
No pass given for skin color. Only the actions of the Human.
because its propaganda
@@Alritealritealrite everything is propaganda to ppl who don’t wanna know the truth
@@lexm17 lol thanks for sharing your wisdom
No one in the comments hates anyone, we're just sick of the race card being played every day. People of all races die unjustly but we rarely hear about that because apparently every issue in America is a race issue the past couple years.
We love to ignore the fact this guy was a massive war criminal, don't we.
Awww. The ol' Skittles trope again. LOL! He died with a little Skittle on his tongue.
Calling Black girls and boys, guys, men and women is the problem. WP don't see children, they see adults. No other group of people is seen this way. It's so tiring and exhausting. The savagery that comes from the non-Black people is TIRING.
Great video!
I hope your neighborhood fills up with Michael Browns, Trayvons, Ahmuads and George Floyds
More like trash and propaganda.
@@brendo7363 Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd can't be compared to Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown. They were real victims, while the other 2 were fake victims.
America still has the original sin
which is what?
Radical globalists?
@@hellooutsiders6865 , henry ford, founder of ford motors tried to warn america. even wrote a book about this. his fears and what he wrote have come true.
@Meghan assigning an entire country with “original sin” is humanities “original sin.” No one in America today chose the past we have.
@Meghan it’s literally the philosophy of the past 2000 years. Jesus dying removed the concept that people should suffer for the actions of their parents or ancestors. When you are born, you have no original sin. For thousands of years before, people were seen as born with original sins.