STOP, FRISKE, AND SHOOT

We can now change the expression so hated in the black community from stop and friske, to stop, friske and shoot.  Imagine you are sauntering down a dark street and someone stops you and starts to search your pockets. You object, which gives your assailant the right to shoot you. That is exactly what happened to Trayvon Martin. Now embellish the story with details. George Zimmerman was not in uniform. He was without a badge or any symbol of authority. He could have been anything from a person looking for friendly conversation to a mugger. It mattered that the street was dark. It mattered that to stop a person on a dark street is unusual. It mattered that the person stopped was black and the person doing the stopping was a white person. It mattered more that he was a white person with an attitude.

Think about what Zimmerman’s objective might have been. The only way his action could have served a purpose was to find burglar tools or stolen property on Trayvon.  The only way this could happen was to have searched him. How could it be that volunteer neighborhood watch persons can have that level of authority that would allow him to stop and search a stranger. He did not have that authority other than in his own mind.  He did have in his mind the idea that he could harass a stranger. An unwritten a sense of racial superiority gave him that authority. As false as it is, his parents, his friends, and his community caused him to develop that sense of superiority.  His State gave him the right to have a concealed weapon.  Trayvon Martin objected to being stopped and pushed around by a stranger in the night—both I would and you would, which means collectively, we would. Thus, the truth is that this 17-year old kid was beating the hell out of a 28-year-old race baiting wan-a-be cop—a wimp with a gun—who stopped him only to harass him. There can be no better reason for gun control than that—guns don’t kill people but wimps with gun do. I like to think justice would have been better served had there been no gun.

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