There is a recurring question among the liberal apologists
for Trayvon Martin insofar as the George Zimmerman not-guilty verdict in
his Florida
trial. It is, “If the roles were
reversed and Trayvon were white (/Hispanic?) and George were black, would
Zimmerman have been found guilty?” This,
of course, implies that rampant racism still exists (particularly in the South)
to the point where it always trumps our justice system.
Of course such a hypothesis is impossible to answer because
the smug posers of this query will accept no answer except in the affirmative.
However, we do have an convenient analogy to this posit in the O.J. Simpson
trial where a black man brutally killed two whites and yet was found not-guilty. Yes, it wasn’t in the South, but it involved an
immense amount of evidence of O.J.’s guilt which was conveniently ignored by a
mostly all-black jury … primarily because one of the arresting officers had
once used the N-word.
Let us return to the original supposition where we need to
do a total role-reversal: Imagine that white
Trayvon Martin has been suspended (and expelled?) from multiple schools for
fighting. He is a regular user of
marijuana … possibly other drugs … and is likely a small-time drug dealer. He has bragged about his gang connections on
Facebook … as well as posting personal pornography there. Whereas, George Zimmerman is a Afro-American A-student and has ambitions of getting into law enforcement (or, to use the
media’s pejorative, is a “wannabe cop”).
Zimmerman is licensed to carry and has volunteered for his
neighborhood watch after multiple incidents of white punks invading homes there and
robbing black residents. On the fateful
night, Trayvon is suspiciously on his way back to his white father’s house there as he has
just been suspended from school for 10 days … probably for punching-out a
school-bus driver. You know the rest of
the story … white Trayvon Martin is dead and black George Zimmerman is accused of
second-degree murder. President George
W. Bush has said that Trayvon Martin looks like he could have been his son.
Would an all-black jury in Florida have found our transformed George Zimmerman guilty
of anything? Come-on, get serious. Justice is blind … but it is not brain-dead.
