This was spray painted on the side of an Ohio State University Center for Black Studies.
"Long Live Zimmerman"
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Kill an Unarmed, Innocent 17-year-old Black Kid now equals Live, Long and Prosper.
Ohio State's University Police are investigating after someone spray-painted "Long Live Zimmerman" on the campus' black cultural center.
University newspaper The Lantern reported that the racially-charged graffiti was apparently left Wednesday night or early Thursday morning on the Hale Hall building, which houses the Frank W. Hale Jr. Black Cultural Center. The message is thought to be in support of George Zimmerman, a Florida neighborhood watchmen who admitted to the February killing of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed African-American teen.
Even if you assume that the shooting of Trayvon Martin was either an accident or somehow "justified" - no one is asking for George Zimmerman to
die, only that what happened that night between him and Trayvon be thoroughly and fairly investigated - how exactly does issue that led you to the point of painting on the side of a College Black Studies Building? What do they have to do with it? And if it's not racial - WHY THEM? Why
that Building?
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There's a point where vandalism isn't just vandalism. It's not just causing damage just to cause damage.
There's a Reason that Dogs Piss on Fire-Hydrants: TO MARK THEIR TERRITORY
This was a shot across the bow by a mangy coward who doesn't have the courage to make his point and argument openly.
Oh, I suppose he's afraid he'll be called a "Racist". Poor guy.
But it just might be that "Racist" is something that comes to mind when you write paeans to the killer of young black kids. Pissing in your own yard is one thing, but pissing in someone else yard is a threat. This was clearly meant to instill Fear and Panic in those Black Studies Students. It was clearly meant to say - "Watch Your Back, You could be next if you wander out alone at night with a Hoodie and some Skittles."
It was meant to say - YOU. ARE. HUNTED.
You are Prey.
That is the definition of Terrorism.
This should not be a partisan issue. It actually isn't a racial one, it's simply a matter of justice. But then we've had plenty of people who are more than willing to make it racial and make it partisan, haven't we?
We had Newt Gingrich claim it was a "Disgrace" for the President to say Trayvon "looked like he could have been my son". Yeah, it's not like that big bigot would say Sandra Fluke reminded him of his daughters - except that he did say exactly that when he called her to apologize for the slurs hurled at her by the likes of Rush Limbaugh.
We've had everyone from George Will to Juan Williams on the Right suddenly bemoaning the huge rate of black on black crime and why there isn't a national outcry about that? Wow, since exactly when did you give a Frack?
From NYTimes
The national outrage over the Trayvon Martin case has prompted some recent examples. Last week, the journalist Juan Williams wrote in The Wall Street Journal of the tragedy of Trayvon's death but wondered what about all the other young black murder victims? Nationally, nearly half of all murder victims are black. And the overwhelming majority of those black people are killed by other black people. During a debate about the case on Sunday on an ABC News program, the commentator George F. Will argued that the "root fact" is that about 150 black men are killed every week in this country and 94 percent of them by other black men.
Here's another "Root Fact" for you. The other half of the people who are murdered everyyear in the U.S.
are White and at least 83% of them are killed
By White People. Alert THE Media!
And in point of fact, Will's figures were wrong. According to the 2010 Uniform Crime Report from the FBI there were slightly more murders of Blacks (6,470) than of Whites (6,043) that year. The percent of those killed by the same race is an incomplete figure because it only includes cases with a single offender and a single victim (Multiple to Single or Multiple to Multiple would get too messy I suppose) so for Whites that comes out as 3,327 murders by 2,777 offenders (83.46%) and for Blacks it's 2.720 murders by 2,459 offenders (90.40%).
So it's not the case there are "150 black men killed every week". The figure for Black Men per Year in 2010 was 5,505 (or 105 per week) and for White Men in 2010 was 4,234 (or 81 per week).
Nor were they killed by 94% Black Men - it was 90%, while White were killed by other Whites about 83% of the time. Overall these figures don't really tell a clear cut story of how either Blacks or Whites are so much more or less "violent" than each other. It's actually fairly even.
So whose out there talking about the Epidemic of White on White Crime because that seems nearly as bad to me as Black on Black Crime percentage wise.
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Are those crickets I hear?
Yeah, and wouldn't it be nice if people would get up and March about all those other killings? That'd be something. Kinda like the Stop The Violence March that occurred this past Saturday.
WASHINGTON PARK -- A crowd gathered Saturday at Village Hall and marched to a nearby convenience store shouting for an end to the violence that is taking too many young lives.
"Put down the guns. Stop the violence now. What do we want? Stop the violence. When do we want it? Now," marchers shouted at the top of their lungs. The participants also hoisted their signs high above their heads for all to see and the message written on them was the same "Stop the Violence!"
Chris "Chaos" Hodges, the march organizer, said he has lived 36 years in Washington Park and has never seen violence at the magnitude that it is now.
Read more here: http://www.bnd.com/...
I guess Juan and George missed that one eh?
It's not just the point that their facts are technically wrong, it's that they both exaggerated the case to distract from a subject they just can't bring themselves to face.
Of course there are more Whites than Blacks in the country, but that skews towards White Men being far safer statistically and Black men being more likely to be killed more than anything else.
So why are all the White (and Non-Black) Men so afraid of Black Men?
Why was this young man Trayvon was automatically considered a "suspect"? Why was he followed? Why was he confronted? Why is he dead when all he was trying to do was get a bag of skittles and some ice tea?
That's the issue, that's the point. They can't face it, they have to play Look Over Here - LOOK at THAT SHINY OBJECT! Go play with that! As if people aren't already doing exactly that. As if people haven't felt the sting of death in their own family and spoken out and march and protested over it - and wondered "Why?"
Particularly when Police or Law Enforcement-Adjacents are involved. Police that are supposed to be protecting our young men and women, not shooting them down in the streets.
Here's a shooting protest from Montreal, which had nothing to do with Trayvon.
Here's another protest of a Student Shooting.
Protest against the Shooting of Sean Bell in New York.
The point is that this kind of thing disgusts nearly all of us. Especially when it happens under the color of "Authority".
Each year there are about 400 "Justifiable Homicide" shootings by law enforcement according to the UCR. The UCR also now documents the number of "Citizen Justifiable Homicides" during that same period. http://www.fbi.gov/...
That number has been steadily rising each and every year.
2006: 238
2007: 257
2008: 265
2009: 266
2010: 278
How many people think it's going to break 300 by the end of this year?
And how many people really think those shooters should all "Live Long", because it's pretty clear the people they shot - didn't.
What is the guy (or shiver girl) who writes "Long Live Zimmerman" going to think and do the next time they're out at night and spot a scary black guy in a Hoodie?
Somehow I don't think they're going to shake their hand. Somehow I don't think they'll believe, if they aren't black, that the person most likely to harm, hurt or kill them - probably isn't black either.
Vyan
10:09 AM PT: Don't know why I'm having photobucket issues with images, but I did provide links to the original articles and pics. Sorry
12:16 PM PT: Via the Comments - someone drew Swastika's and "Niggers" on an Obama Mural 4 Blocks Away from Hale Center.
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If these are the same persons, and they may or may not be, I think the semantic issue of is this or is this not "Terrorism" is now done and over. Would anyone ask that if they'd burned crosses on the lawn? They might as well have done exactly that.
1:00 PM PT: The way the Mural used to look, and how it was created.