George Zimmerman, Not Guilty : Blood on the Leaves : The New Yorker

George Zimmerman, not guilty: blood on the leaves
▻http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/07/george-zimmerman-not-guilty-blood-on-the-leaves.html #plo

O’Mara’s statement echoed a criticism that began circulating long before Martin and Zimmerman encountered each other. Thousands of black boys die at the hands of other African Americans each year, but the black community, it holds, is concerned only when those deaths are caused by whites. It’s an appealing argument, and widespread, but it’s simplistic and obtuse. It’s a belief most easily held when you’ve not witnessed peace rallies and makeshift memorials, when you’ve turned a blind eye to grassroots organizations like the Interrupters in Chicago, who are working valiantly to stem the tide of violence in that city. It is the thinking of people who’ve never wondered why African Americans disproportionately support strict gun-control legislation. The added quotient of outrage in cases like this one stems not from the belief that a white murderer is somehow worse than a black one but from the knowledge that race determines whether fear, history, and public sentiment offer that killer a usable alibi.

Conservatives celebrate, race-bait and taunt in the wake of news that Trayvon Martin’s killer will walk free
▻http://www.salon.com/2013/07/14/most_disgusting_reactions_to_zimmerman_acquittal

Prayer, Anger and Protests Greet Verdict in Florida Case
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/15/us/debate-on-race-and-justice-is-renewed.html?pagewanted=all

Within moments of the announcement of the verdict Saturday night and continuing through Sunday, demonstrations, some planned and some impromptu, arose in neighborhoods in Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, New York and Atlanta. There were no reports of serious violence or arrests as the day went on, a contrast with the riots that swept Los Angeles after the verdict in another race-tinged case, the 1992 acquittal of white Los Angeles police officers in the beating of Rodney King, a black construction worker.

pas vraiment des #émeutes, donc, à Los Angeles
▻http://berthoalain.com/2013/07/15/zimmerman-acquitte-affrontements-a-los-angeles-14-juillet-2013

President Obama’s remarks on Trayvon Martin (full transcript)
▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/president-obamas-remarks-on-trayvon-martin-full-transcript/2013/07/19/5e33ebea-f09a-11e2-a1f9-ea873b7e0424_story.html

So — so folks understand the challenges that exist for African- American boys, but they get frustrated, I think, if they feel that there’s no context for it or — and that context is being denied. And — and that all contributes, I think, to a sense that if a white male teen was involved in the same kind of scenario, that, from top to bottom, both the outcome and the aftermath might have been different.

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et ►http://blog.emceebeulogue.fr/post/2013/07/29/Trayvon-Martin-et-le-discours-d-Obama,-le-Blanc-dissimul%C3%A9-de