No punishment too harsh

Since apparently murdering their son wasn't enough, subhuman woman beater and small time criminal George Zimmerman this week said that Trayvon Martin's mother and father were bad parents who didn't raise their son the right way.

As if his own parents did such a bang up job--I mean, it takes an awful lot of courage to shoot a teenager who's packing a bag of multi-colored Skittles.

Many people, after killing a child because of their own stupidity, would spend the rest of their lives trying to make up for it and would feel that no apology they could make would ever be enough to console the parents of that child.  But at least they would try.

George Zimmerman isn't one of those people.

And whatever ill should befall him over the course of the rest of his life will be richly deserved.

Peace,
emaycee

It ain't no secret

Michael Brown, an unarmed black man, was killed by a police officer this weekend in Ferguson, MO.

An unarmed black man being killed in this country?

Man, that almost never happens in America...(sadly, there are more here).

Peace,
emaycee

Cojones

President Obama stood before America today not only as the President, not only as the Commander-in-
Chief, but also as a black man in America and spoke about the death of Trayvon Martin.  He was, as he often is, both eloquent and thoughtful.  It was a bold gesture, and the President deserves all the accolades he has been receiving throughout the day.

The republican response was typical, calling the President the racist in chief, and it was brutally obvious his thoughts and emotions were far above their meager I.Q.s

The President is supposed to stand above the fray, but as an ordinary citizen, I am not.  My response to the republican whiners can be summed up in three words:

Fuck you, haters.

For all his faults, President Obama on his worst day is ten times the human being any of his racist detractors will ever be.

Peace,
emaycee

Motor City moron

In their pathetic and sad quest to have a celebrity, any celebrity, that agrees with their outdated and hateful views, the conservative movement continues to turn to the Motor City moron, Ted Nugent.  This time, Mr. Nugent weighs in on the Trayvon Martin tragedy by claiming that Martin Luther King is rolling over in his grave at having wasted his life after what has become of black America.

Mr. Nugent did get one thing right (one more than he probably ever has before)--Martin Luther King is indeed rolling over in his grave (not the least because racists like Nugent distort his words to justify their hatred of black Americans) because 45 years after his death we are still not judging people based on the content of their character.

If we were, then a racist asshole like George Zimmerman would be rotting in jail where he belongs.

Peace,
emaycee

Republican heroes come pretty cheap

So...for killing an unarmed black young man, George Zimmerman is going to be a hero, hoisted high in republican circles as an All-American exemplar of (white) justice, and make more money than those of us who have played by the rules and busted our butts for years at our jobs (not to mention not killing an unarmed human being in the process) can only dream of.

I'd like to say that there once 'twas a time when a man such as this would have been rightfully sent to prison, or at the very least, sent home to live a life of shame, but it isn't so.  But I think it sounds legions about the current republican party, where murder deserves the death penalty, unless of course, the skin of the victim is black and the skin of the murderer is white.

In which case it is reason to celebrate and pay homage to the murderer.

How fucked up is that?

Peace,
emaycee

Zimmerman unwound

The prosecution and the defense have made their final arguments in the George Zimmerman trial, and quite frankly I have no idea how it will be decided.  Regardless, based on this transcript, it is irrefutable that had George Zimmerman, after making the 911 call, gone home and let the police do their job, Trayvon Martin would still be alive, no one outside of family and friends would have the slightest idea who Trayvon Martin or George Zimmerman are, and the taxpayers of Florida would have been saved millions of dollars in legal fees and court costs.

And the world (especially the world of Trayvon Martin's parents) would be much better off.

Peace,
emaycee

Beholden to the base

Regardless of which bozo eventually wins the republican nomination (yeah, I know it's going to be Willard, but a man can dream), the winner will be beholden to people just like these commenters on the Trayvon Martin killing.  It's a pretty safe bet that none of them will be pulling the lever in the voting booth for Obama this fall.

How many, though, of those "knowledgeable" independent voters will be pulling levers for the republican candidate, blind to the true nature of his party?

Just askin'....

Peace,
emaycee