By Derek Hunter
Sunday, July 14, 2013
NOTE: As of this writing the jury was deliberating and cable
news networks were “filling time with wild speculation from media ordained
experts” who know as much about what’s happening in the jury room as a
coin-toss. The jury could come in at any time between hitting “send” noon on
Saturday and this going live at midnight Sunday.
Can I just say something controversial that must be said?
I don’t care about the George Zimmerman trial. I don’t, not even a little.
That’s not to say I don’t feel sorry for those involved who’ve lost a loved
one, I do. One family lost a child to a gun, the other lost a child to a mob.
One is in eternal rest far too soon, the other will never know rest in all his
remaining days. But that doesn’t mean I should care about it, nor should you.
Sympathize away, but being invested emotionally while not
being a friend or family member of anyone involved is irrational and dangerous.
But an emotional investment is exactly what every news
outlet in the country wants you to have. There’s money in it and it fits their
progressive agenda.
From the first moment the MSNBC prime-time clown car
metaphorically emptied into Sanford, Florida, an agenda was set in motion to
manipulate as many people as possible into believing things that were not true.
But they weren’t alone.
While progressives tried to paint a picture of racism to
fit their needed narrative of an America where the Klan roam the streets and
hold public office (as Democrats, a part of their past they always conveniently
omit), many conservatives attempted to prove that there is no circumstance
under which George Zimmerman shares at least a slice of the blame pie.
The progressive case goes something like this: Trayvon
Martin, a black 17 year old, went to the store to buy candy and a drink. On his
way home, this black teenager, was racially profiled by a “white” Hispanic guy,
who followed him with the intention of killing him for being black. He provoked
Trayvon into punching him in the nose and banging his head on the sidewalk so
he could shoot him. Diabolical. Oh, and did I mention Trayvon Martin is black?
The conservatives who care present a case probably closer
to the truth, but no less speculative. A generally good guy was looking out for
his neighborhood and saw someone he didn’t recognize walking in an odd place.
With the neighborhood having suffered its fair share of crime, he called the
police and, trying to be extra helpful, set out on foot to follow a guy walking
home. Trayvon decided to confront the “creepy-ass cracker” stalking him by
jumping out of the bushes and punching him in the face. Zimmerman, completely
overpowered and fearing for his life, shot Martin in self-defense.
The truth is somewhere in the middle and nowhere as
clear-cut. There were dozens of opportunities for this not to happen, Zimmerman
could’ve not gotten out of his car, Martin could have not decked him, etc. But
they did. Someone’s dislike of these facts doesn’t make them any less so.
So we’re left with a dead kid and a man on trial. This
happens all the time in the world, but it doesn’t get this much attention.
Over the 4th of July weekend, the city of Chicago had 74
people shot, 12 died. One of the shooting victims was a 5-year-old boy. There’s
no ambiguity about that. What was that child’s name? What are any of their
names? You don’t know because not only were the suspected shooters black, so
were the victims. In the progressive media equation of what constitutes news,
black on black crime – a tragic epidemic by any normal unit of measure –
doesn’t rate.
To the progressive media, who set the narrative tone, a
busty blonde being involved in a crime, either as victim or perp, trumps
everything else. After that, it’s black victim with a white perpetrator. The
list beyond that fades into insignificance until you reach “I don’t know what
you’re talking about” level. Under that, tied with “putting your fingers in
your ears and shouting ‘lalalala, I’m not listening’ is black on black crime.
You’d think a “civil rights leader” like MSNBC’s Al
Sharpton would care since it’s what he claims to care about, but you’d be
wrong. There’s not nearly as much camera time and money in scores of bleeding
bodies on Chicago’s south side as there is when the perpetrator is white.
Aside from the rank hypocrisy of silence on an ongoing
issue of life and death, the Zimmerman trial offered another opportunity for
progressives to express distracting outrage to avoid an important issue.
Trayvon Martin’s girlfriend, Rachel Jeantel, a
19-year-old high school senior, testified in the case and was mocked for not
being able to read cursive handwriting. Progressives were outraged anyone would
mock this woman who has obviously gone through Hell. But imagine the good that could
come out of her testimony had the progressive media been half as angry at a
union dominated public education system that churns out 19-year-olds who can’t
read cursive as they were at people who found it odd. Opportunity lost because
it didn’t fit the narrative.
The George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin case is a tragedy,
but it’s not unique or special, it’s simply one that can be exploited.
Progressives need people to believe America is a horribly and hopelessly racist
nation to justify bigger government and more thought crimes.
If Zimmerman walks or is found guilty, life will
continue. That you know about this case in the first place is a testament to
just how powerfully manipulative the progressive media is. That you can’t name
one person shot in Chicago over a 3-day weekend from a list of 74, or that
people aren’t protesting outside of Rachel Jeantel’s school chanting
“malpractice,” shows just how effective the corrupt progressive media is.
There are lessons to be learned from everything in life,
that’s especially true in the Zimmerman trial. Unfortunately, the progressive
media will learn only how to manipulate even better the next time because
actually talking about and solving problems for which they’ve appointed
themselves champions would put them out of business.
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