VERDICT: Assumptions and indignation
Re: “Mob willfully ignorant of the facts” (letter, 7-22). In a letter full of double speak, two schemes stand out. First, instead of a homicide, the discussion becomes a case of assault. The writer...
View ArticleVERDICT: Who should do the soul searching?
President Obama recently compared himself to Trayvon Martin. The only thing they had in common was the frequent use of marijuana at an early age; commonalities diverge from there. Any “soul searching,”...
View ArticleVERDICT: Armed and emboldened
I respect the verdict of the jury who heard the evidence and the law and delivered the verdicts of not guilty in the trial of George Zimmerman. I also respect the anguish of African Americans and...
View ArticleVERDICT: A little civility could have gone a long way
Re: “Martin ‘could have been me'” (TNT, 7-20). A portion of this article struck me as not only poor reporting but also incendiary in describing an encounter in which a little civility on both sides...
View ArticleVERDICT: Stand up against Stand Your Ground laws
I believe George Zimmerman’s confidence in Florida’s Stand Your Ground law allowed him to pursue and confront Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman knew that if an altercation ensued, he could use his gun and...
View ArticleVERDICT: Trayvon had right to stand his ground
From most of what I’ve heard and read, we’ve got the Martin-Zimmerman conflict backwards. George Zimmerman left a place of security and stalked someone who he thought was suspicious. Trayvon Martin was...
View ArticleVERDICT: Disgraceful for judge to show his bias
My wife shared an article via social media that questioned the biased coverage of the George Zimmerman trial. She was immediately called out as a racist by a minority friend of ours. The politically...
View ArticleGUNS: Obama deceitful on Stand Your Ground laws
I feel compelled to write after reading President Obama’s latest misrepresentation of the “Stand Your Ground” laws. Our president is a lawyer who knows how to manipulate and obfuscate facts to push a...
View ArticleVERDICT: Cuthbertson spoke the truth about injustice
I heard Judge Frank Cuthbertson speak at the forum at Shiloh Baptist Church held in the wake of the George Zimmerman verdict. Cuthbertson had the courage to speak the truth about racial bias in our...
View ArticlePROFILING: False equivalence of two disturbing crimes
Re: “Equal rights for elderly white men” (letter, 8-27). The writer pronounces the random beating and murder of Delbert Belton in Spokane to be equivalent to the random shooting and murder of Trayvon...
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