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Translation: Well 'merica, the polls have shown that less than 25% of you actually bought our heavy-handed propaganda piece about this case being racially motivated. But.... I'm gunna make sure I do everything in my power to keep the flames of hate burning as long as possible.

Anything to keep all the other terrible **** I've done out of the news is great in my book!

The tinfoil is strong around here.

...that reminds me, I knew I forgot something when I bought groceries on the way home today.

Look, I don't like the verdict either. As far as my opinion goes, the end result was 'guy with handgun kills teenager with bare fists and gets away with it.' That's just all this blustering is, though: an opinion. Sure I was pissed when Zimmerman's verdict was announced, and it took a couple of days to get over it, but I did.

I don't even pay attention to the Tinfoil Brigade anymore, though. I'm just upset I didn't think to buy stock in Reynolds Group Holdings.

Doesn't an act of racism typically require one white Caucasian and one none-white Caucasian? If a Latino shoots an African American after an altercation does it make a Raciest thud? It seems to be happening all of the time (and visa versa) in both our inner cities as well as around the world.




I feel like I am qualified to say stuff like this because I play a black man in an interweb spaceships game.

So, in other words, you listened to the race-baiters and self-flagellating liberals and ignored all the evidence?

Racism sounds like it works differently on that side of the pond. Over here we know racism can be any race against any other race. My grandfather for instance had a fair bit against him because he was white and served in Africa. Same with my mother and grandmother for being German in Britain, mainly Poles for the worst part.

Americans and identity politics, you guys lost me at [geographic location] American and I respectfully bowed out of the debate.

Especially the Caucasian thing, fairly large amount of the Easter Europeans would take offence at being called that

Also not English

Yeah I can see where some can get detracted by that line, what I am saying is that even idiots along with jurors A B & C can be selected to serve on the jury, essentially jury selection is a toss up, it can work in your favor or against you depending on the selection. (Jury Selection is like a box of chocolates you never know what you're gonna get).

While I don't pretend to elevate the state's judicial process to the level of perfection, that's not exactly a fair explanation of the trial in question.

The prosecution and defense both agree on who fills the jury. I don't think either camp would desire a stupid juror, or at least would not screen for IQ. What they're looking for are social biases. The prosecution probably banked on the fact that women are overwhelmingly liberal-leaning and hoped that liberal feelings about social injustice and discrimination would allow them to pain Zimmerman in a racist light more effectively. I don't know what the defense could have hoped to gain by giving the go-ahead to that jury pool, but their case was clearly made to the jury.

In terms of what the jury has to do, it isn't exactly rocket-science. They're presented with the law in question which the accused is being tried as in violation of. They are witness to all the testimony, evidence, and appeals by the lawyers. Then they are instructed to render a verdict as to whether or not the law in question was, beyond a reasonable doubt, violated.

So it doesn't really matter how intellectually inclined the jurors are. They're simply deciding, in a matter of fact way, whether or not the description of events matches the accusations. They did not and thus Zimmerman was acquitted.

i didnt bother to read what your talking about