this should make great fodder

Obama says "Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago," in his first live comments on the court case.

teedubbya wrote:

Victor did you fail civics?

ZRX1200 wrote:

Oh please, edify me.[sarcasm]

victor809 wrote:

Hell, check the wikipedia article and there are witnesses saying Z was on top of T. Some of the accounts suggest his actions were less than responsible, and ultimately led to someone being dead. That's essentially the definition of manslaughter.

victor809 wrote:

I'm surprised (not really) that everyone is offended that some people wanted there to be a trial to determine innocence.

victor809 wrote:

What witness? I'm not sure that is entirely factual that wikipedia is stating that. It can't be manslaughter if one is in compliance with the state law on self defense.

HockeyDad wrote:

I'm not sure anyone is offended that some people wanted a trial. It was just clear that the trial was a politically motivated lynching.

Who cares what Barkley thinks about anything other than basketball?

rfenst wrote:

HD, I have no doubt that things got blown up out of control, but seriously... even if a witness claims trayvon was sitting on z's head, I'd suggest there should be a bit more inquiry. Lethal force against an unarmed man resulting in death is a cause for inquiry. Hell, check the wikipedia article and there are witnesses saying Z was on top of T. Some of the accounts suggest his actions were less than responsible, and ultimately led to someone being dead. That's essentially the definition of manslaughter.

Again, I'm not disputing the decision. I don't even care. I'm surprised (not really) that everyone is offended that some people wanted there to be a trial to determine innocence.

victor809 wrote:

Well it shows that blacks don't always think as a monolith bloc.
See? Sir Charles is part of the 5% that occasionally don't.

bloody spaniard wrote:

It may be even higher than that but blacks that aren't part of the monolith are typically ignored by the media, not to mention excoriated by their brethren.

DadZilla3 wrote:

It may be even higher than that but blacks that aren't part of the monolith are typically ignored by the media, not to mention excoriated by their brethren.

DadZilla3 wrote:

Who's Charles Broccoli?

Bitter Klinger wrote:

In even further news a bunch of fat cigar smoking blowhards will selectively hang on the words of any idiot as long as in the moment it fits their agenda, ignoring the 98.7% of the time said idiot says things even the blowhards find stupid.

teedubbya wrote: