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Ashmaele  Title: Pastor of Muppets
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Ashmaele Title: Pastor of Muppets
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paulg_68 posted:
Because mug shots are the only place the media can get pictures? They came up with a picture of Trayvon that wasn't a mug shot.
What made me think that it was a regular pic as opposed to a mug shot is the presence of a collar on the shirt, I don't think I've ever seen polo style prison shirts.
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paulg_68 Posts: 2,469
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Ashmaele posted:
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Ashmaele Title: Pastor of Muppets
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Something bothers me about this, tell me if I'm off base:
http://gma.yahoo.com/trayvon-martin-shooter-told-cops-teenager-went-gun-030349812--abc-news.html
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George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch crime captain who shot dead 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, originally told police in a written statement that Martin knocked him down with a punch to the nose, repeatedly slammed his head on the ground and tried to take his gun, a police source told ABC News.
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In addition, an eyewitness, 13-year-old Austin Brown, told police he saw a man fitting Zimmerman's description lying on the grass moaning and crying for help just seconds before he heard the gunshot that killed Martin.
Shouldn't he also have seen Martin on top of him trying to get the gun at exactly that point?
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Blue_arrow  Posts: 468
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Ashmaele Title: Pastor of Muppets
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Whoops
http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2012/03/trayvon_martin_no_thats_not_hi.php
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Update: Wonderfully, Business Insider touted the bogus photo as accurate in a story on how the media is badly reporting the Trayvon Martin saga. Their source for the photo: white power message board Stormfront.
lolracistnoobs
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paulg_68 Posts: 2,469
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So choice of pictures does cause bias?
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I read the left, right and middle writers on an issue and then decide for myself. For those so far to the left that they think the middle is far right; here is the far right view of the issue.
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/03/26/trayvon-martin-and-the-politics-of-racial-guilt/2/
When at the beginning of March, Allen Coon, a thirteen-year-old boy, was set on fire by two black teenagers who told him, “You get what you deserve, white boy,†this did not prove to be an occasion for national soul-searching. But the shooting death of Trayvon Martin by a Hispanic neighborhood watch captain after a scuffle between the two men has led to hysterical media coverage, state and federal investigations, civil rights marches, lynching threats from the Black Panthers and a statement from Obama urging Americans to search their souls for some unspecified reason.
Even Trayvon Martin only matters because he is in some hypothetical sense linked to Obama, and every trending topic from Jeremy Lin to the million hoodie march must be commented on by him in some way to demonstrate his own relevance in the mobius strip of fame. There can be no 2012 election without the race card, and so Martin was posthumously drafted into the Obama family portrait that appears on campaign ads to remind the rest of the country that they still need to feel guilty and vote the left’s ticket.
The Trayvon Martin case was far from the worst shooting death this year. Or even the worst shooting death involving an African-American victim. That honor might belong to Delric Waymon Miller IV, a nine-month-old boy killed in Detroit when his house was peppered with an AK-47 assault rifle just last month. The investigation on that one is still ongoing and could presumably benefit from federal assistance, which it won’t receive because there is no political payday from highlighting black on black violence. Or from helping to solve a crime instead of stirring up racial hate.
Obama knows better than most how the game is played. As a descendant of privileged Africans and American whites, he has no skin in the game; he is an outside observer of the dysfunction of Americans of both colors and an expert at manipulating their tensions for his own benefit. Having played out hope, he has fastened on guilt, a primal emotion that promises nothing, but takes everything. Much as he has done. To complete the great work, he will work the power of guilt and promise once again to lift the sin of racism from us, if we only shut down our minds, forget about our jobs and businesses, and blindly push the lever once more.
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Ashmaele Title: Pastor of Muppets
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paulg_68 posted:
So when racists post pictures that aren't even of the guy in question trying to make a point they're probably biased?
Indeed!
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paulg_68 Posts: 2,469
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Why would it matter if choice of picture doesn't create bias?
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