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1. Silver Lining, Almost
Now that the backlash from the Zimmerman verdict has settled, I feel much better about the entire incident. I don't think that the case should have taken up as much of our attention as it did, but I'm glad that the right verdict was rendered and that an innocent man, at least in my opinion, didn't go to jail because of the unjust actions of agitators. I really do hope that the Zimmerman family keeps to their word and sues everyone who contributed to this story getting out of hand. No political group should get to endlessly slander a private citizen/criminal defendant for their own selfish motives. I hope this never happens again.
It is also nice to see so many people of all persuasions actually supporting the verdict. I'm pretty annoyed that the president took the time to inject his race into it again, but I guess he's entitled to also ignore the facts of the case and validate people who are too ignorant to understand the law if he wants to. I hoped that after the verdict, some of the people trying to nail Zimmerman would at least admit that they made a mistake, but I guess it was naive of me to think they would. I mean, they've had plenty of opportunities to correct their errors on one aspect of the case or another, and they just don't want to. If we were still looking at pictures of 14-year old Trayvon and believing that Zimmerman said "coons" on the 911 tape, these folks would be perfectly fine with that. The truth matters little to them. They're projecting all of their negative life experiences onto this case, and once people get into that state of mind, you can't ever knock them out of it.
As I write this, it is now being announced that juror B29 came forward to discuss the verdict. I find this amusing because she basically invalidates everything the anti-Zimmerman crowd was saying about how the absence of a black juror led to a skewed verdict. She's someone I think most would identify as "black," and she even wanted second degree murder and just couldn't find the evidence that was needed to stick him with anything. Yes, it's nice that she feels in her heart that Zimmerman was guilty of murder, and I even predicted that the jury just might come back with a conviction because of how the prosecution played up the emotions that created that gut feeling that Zimmerman is guilty, but she couldn't just throw him in prison because of her gut feelings. So I'm not sure why people see it as a victory that a juror "felt" that Zimmerman got away with murder. A lot of people think and feel things, but it doesn't mean they can prove it. Anyways, I'm glad that B29 eventually made the right decision, even though it was hard for her. It shows this idea that all black jurors will just be unreasonably biased and throw a wrench in the system regardless of the law is just a wishful fantasy of the racial justice crowd.
I actually believe that most people don't engage in insane levels of racial solidarity expected by racial justice activists unless they're trained to see everything as a racial issue through their education or other peer influences or unless agitators in the media get ahold of them and brainwash them into seeing something as a racial issue. I also believe that when you don't have agitators whispering in their ears, many non-white people will try harder than anyone to be impartial because they want to show that minorities, like any other American, can be trusted to do their duty as citizens. This idea that minorities just want to subvert everything in this country because they are minorities is actually kind of offensive and is among the long list of insulting implications that racial justice activists get away with making all the time. The fact that none of the jurors thus far, including this one, sees this case as a race issue, also shows that it really is the left that hypes up race while most people in this country are just trying to get along.
I knew that there was going to eventually be a juror to come out and say that she believed Zimmerman was a murderer, so I'm not very shocked or surprised by the interview at all. In fact, her interview shows why it is just sick to bring cases like this with poor evidence to trial in the first place. Juror B29 says that she feels that she has been made an accomplice in Martin's murder, and that's a natural response when you have the prosecution playing on your emotions like that and making a defendant seem like the worst murderer on the planet while not giving you the evidence you need to be able to convict someone of the crime they're charging someone with. What a really awful thing to do to someone. I really agreed with O'Mara when he said in his closing statement that the jury should come back out from deliberation and tell the prosecution never to bring them a case like that before them again. I do think that it was just callous and insensitive for activists to push for this trial and needlessly get the hands of more innocent people bloody, when most people with working brains have known for a long time that the jurors would have to acquit Zimmerman.
But I have faith that many people saw just what I've expressed now, and they'll start to push back against racial agitators. I think that most people inherently don't want to live in a society where they're spending every second thinking about their skin color or identity group and mix-matching this up against the skin colors/identity groups held by other people in society. I think the reason that MLK's statement about a "colorblind" society gets spread around more often than almost anything else he's ever said is because most people realize that they have a soul that goes beyond their physical form. So I do think that even if the left has all of this "research" showing that a colorblind approach to race relations is ineffective, a growing number of people won't accept those studies should be our destiny. I know that I would prefer for people to try to be colorblind, even if they don't always get it right, rather than have a society of quotas and other racial regulations that operate on the assumption that people can't be fair. So in a way, I'm really glad that this Martin trial became the event that it turned into. I've read many comment sections on various forums and news outlets, and I was very impressed to see that more people are being turned on to the same critiques of racial justice activism that I had years ago.
2. Refocusing
Okay, so I'm taking deep breathes and trying to just calm down. The Zimmerman case really raised my blood pressure because of all of the buffoonery that I saw in the media surrounding the case. I also learned from the Piers Morgan show that I am old school, but Rachel Jeantel is new school. I was utterly terrified when the studio audience applauded that statement. You know, I expect that teens don't make good decisions and will engage in bad behavior that they may come to regret, but it's pathetic that the "adults" in our world go out of their way to validate dysfunctional behavior in youth and actively promote it. Do we really want to encourage kids across the country to emulate Jeantel? It's funny because people claim that my generation is taking an awfully long time to grow up, but I think the next generation will probably consider themselves to be "kids" at thirty with all of the coddling that they get. There really is little incentive to be particularly responsible or disciplined because there are so many people who will just excuse away my failures for me. Sometimes I use this to my advantage, but sometimes I feel completely insulted that society doesn't expect more from me.
But I realize that it's not worth it to get upset over all of this. I look at all of the trends in our society, and to protest the way that we've been on the decline would be as productive as throwing my body on the tracks to halt a speeding train. I need to unplug myself from the mainstream media and many of the news sources that frustrate me. When I think about it, I could be completely clueless about this world if I wanted to. If I just focused on what is right in front of my eyes, my experiences would be limited to the neighborhood I live in, which is a calm, quiet, and uneventful place. Really, I imagine that this is what daily life is like for most Americans when they aren't plugged into a manufactured monolithic view of society that is concocted by the media and our education system. I think a reason I check up with the outer world so often is that I look for clues that society is changing. However, I think that we're kind of born into the time periods that we're born into, and it would take a few generations before I see a society that's markedly different. Right now, this isn't the society I would like to fully participate in, but I think we're at a point where just about everyone is equally miserable with their standing in mainstream society, no matter what their background. So at least I'm not suffering alone. :-)
Now that the backlash from the Zimmerman verdict has settled, I feel much better about the entire incident. I don't think that the case should have taken up as much of our attention as it did, but I'm glad that the right verdict was rendered and that an innocent man, at least in my opinion, didn't go to jail because of the unjust actions of agitators. I really do hope that the Zimmerman family keeps to their word and sues everyone who contributed to this story getting out of hand. No political group should get to endlessly slander a private citizen/criminal defendant for their own selfish motives. I hope this never happens again.
It is also nice to see so many people of all persuasions actually supporting the verdict. I'm pretty annoyed that the president took the time to inject his race into it again, but I guess he's entitled to also ignore the facts of the case and validate people who are too ignorant to understand the law if he wants to. I hoped that after the verdict, some of the people trying to nail Zimmerman would at least admit that they made a mistake, but I guess it was naive of me to think they would. I mean, they've had plenty of opportunities to correct their errors on one aspect of the case or another, and they just don't want to. If we were still looking at pictures of 14-year old Trayvon and believing that Zimmerman said "coons" on the 911 tape, these folks would be perfectly fine with that. The truth matters little to them. They're projecting all of their negative life experiences onto this case, and once people get into that state of mind, you can't ever knock them out of it.
As I write this, it is now being announced that juror B29 came forward to discuss the verdict. I find this amusing because she basically invalidates everything the anti-Zimmerman crowd was saying about how the absence of a black juror led to a skewed verdict. She's someone I think most would identify as "black," and she even wanted second degree murder and just couldn't find the evidence that was needed to stick him with anything. Yes, it's nice that she feels in her heart that Zimmerman was guilty of murder, and I even predicted that the jury just might come back with a conviction because of how the prosecution played up the emotions that created that gut feeling that Zimmerman is guilty, but she couldn't just throw him in prison because of her gut feelings. So I'm not sure why people see it as a victory that a juror "felt" that Zimmerman got away with murder. A lot of people think and feel things, but it doesn't mean they can prove it. Anyways, I'm glad that B29 eventually made the right decision, even though it was hard for her. It shows this idea that all black jurors will just be unreasonably biased and throw a wrench in the system regardless of the law is just a wishful fantasy of the racial justice crowd.
I actually believe that most people don't engage in insane levels of racial solidarity expected by racial justice activists unless they're trained to see everything as a racial issue through their education or other peer influences or unless agitators in the media get ahold of them and brainwash them into seeing something as a racial issue. I also believe that when you don't have agitators whispering in their ears, many non-white people will try harder than anyone to be impartial because they want to show that minorities, like any other American, can be trusted to do their duty as citizens. This idea that minorities just want to subvert everything in this country because they are minorities is actually kind of offensive and is among the long list of insulting implications that racial justice activists get away with making all the time. The fact that none of the jurors thus far, including this one, sees this case as a race issue, also shows that it really is the left that hypes up race while most people in this country are just trying to get along.
I knew that there was going to eventually be a juror to come out and say that she believed Zimmerman was a murderer, so I'm not very shocked or surprised by the interview at all. In fact, her interview shows why it is just sick to bring cases like this with poor evidence to trial in the first place. Juror B29 says that she feels that she has been made an accomplice in Martin's murder, and that's a natural response when you have the prosecution playing on your emotions like that and making a defendant seem like the worst murderer on the planet while not giving you the evidence you need to be able to convict someone of the crime they're charging someone with. What a really awful thing to do to someone. I really agreed with O'Mara when he said in his closing statement that the jury should come back out from deliberation and tell the prosecution never to bring them a case like that before them again. I do think that it was just callous and insensitive for activists to push for this trial and needlessly get the hands of more innocent people bloody, when most people with working brains have known for a long time that the jurors would have to acquit Zimmerman.
But I have faith that many people saw just what I've expressed now, and they'll start to push back against racial agitators. I think that most people inherently don't want to live in a society where they're spending every second thinking about their skin color or identity group and mix-matching this up against the skin colors/identity groups held by other people in society. I think the reason that MLK's statement about a "colorblind" society gets spread around more often than almost anything else he's ever said is because most people realize that they have a soul that goes beyond their physical form. So I do think that even if the left has all of this "research" showing that a colorblind approach to race relations is ineffective, a growing number of people won't accept those studies should be our destiny. I know that I would prefer for people to try to be colorblind, even if they don't always get it right, rather than have a society of quotas and other racial regulations that operate on the assumption that people can't be fair. So in a way, I'm really glad that this Martin trial became the event that it turned into. I've read many comment sections on various forums and news outlets, and I was very impressed to see that more people are being turned on to the same critiques of racial justice activism that I had years ago.
2. Refocusing
Okay, so I'm taking deep breathes and trying to just calm down. The Zimmerman case really raised my blood pressure because of all of the buffoonery that I saw in the media surrounding the case. I also learned from the Piers Morgan show that I am old school, but Rachel Jeantel is new school. I was utterly terrified when the studio audience applauded that statement. You know, I expect that teens don't make good decisions and will engage in bad behavior that they may come to regret, but it's pathetic that the "adults" in our world go out of their way to validate dysfunctional behavior in youth and actively promote it. Do we really want to encourage kids across the country to emulate Jeantel? It's funny because people claim that my generation is taking an awfully long time to grow up, but I think the next generation will probably consider themselves to be "kids" at thirty with all of the coddling that they get. There really is little incentive to be particularly responsible or disciplined because there are so many people who will just excuse away my failures for me. Sometimes I use this to my advantage, but sometimes I feel completely insulted that society doesn't expect more from me.
But I realize that it's not worth it to get upset over all of this. I look at all of the trends in our society, and to protest the way that we've been on the decline would be as productive as throwing my body on the tracks to halt a speeding train. I need to unplug myself from the mainstream media and many of the news sources that frustrate me. When I think about it, I could be completely clueless about this world if I wanted to. If I just focused on what is right in front of my eyes, my experiences would be limited to the neighborhood I live in, which is a calm, quiet, and uneventful place. Really, I imagine that this is what daily life is like for most Americans when they aren't plugged into a manufactured monolithic view of society that is concocted by the media and our education system. I think a reason I check up with the outer world so often is that I look for clues that society is changing. However, I think that we're kind of born into the time periods that we're born into, and it would take a few generations before I see a society that's markedly different. Right now, this isn't the society I would like to fully participate in, but I think we're at a point where just about everyone is equally miserable with their standing in mainstream society, no matter what their background. So at least I'm not suffering alone. :-)