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Originally Posted by MelBridgeman
African Americans in the US have a lot in common with Natives in Canada...
Both make up the vast majority of prisoners of their respective countries.
Both have had prior histories of being treated inferior by the majority.
I'll stop there is point 2 the root cause?
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And women.
Women have been treated as second class citizens for hundreds of years in this country, and have been treated and are still treated as inferior by the majority.
What I see from these message boards is the usual on any message board in America- some people trying to be ultra liberal- overusing the race card. Some people who are actually looking at this situation and discussing it with intelligence and having a healthy debate, and then some people who obviously think that blacks are inferior to whites.
My point is this- this case is not about race. ZIMMERMAN IS NOT WHITE. Sheesh, if you live in this country, you know that Hispanics are profiled and judged all the time- like blacks, NAs, women, etc. Zimmerman was probably trigger happy and Martin was probably walking around with a chip on his shoulder which ended up in a tragic situation which could have been avoided- the problem here is once again, a gun. If Zimmerman didn't have a gun I doubt he'd be so gung-ho on following Martin in the first place. If he didn't have a gun, maybe no one would have been killed, or maybe the police would have gotten there in time to help Zimmerman from getting the crap beat out of him. I really hate that people are making this about race.
The race card is getting really old. Again, the friggen testimony as well as FACTS show that race did not factor in this situation and people, the media AND the President are making it be something it's not- a spectacle to talk about how racist this country is. For every single person who talks about a travesty that happens to a black male, I can mention 3 that have happened to a person because she was a woman. Put the race card face down on the table and talk about the real issues, it's boring.