Charles Pierce To Juror#B37: "take your barely implicit racism and fk off."

[kpete]

More Evidence That It Never Was About Race
By Charles P. Pierce at 9:07am
I am taking heat in some quarters because of what people think was my less-than-nuanced view of the verdict handed down in the case of George Zimmerman, Crimebuster.


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OK, let's consult the expert opinion of one local citizen down Sanford way, so that I may be enlightened about the feelings of the other side. Take it away, Juror No. B37.

"I think George Zimmerman is a man whose heart was in the right place, but just got displaced by the vandalism in the neighborhoods and wanting to catch these people so badly that he went above and beyond what he really should have done. But I think his heart was in the right place. It just went terribly wrong..."

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Such a shame when things go so terribly wrong that good-hearted people shoot down unarmed teenagers in the street. Whatever is the world coming to, anyway?

When Cooper asked the juror if she would feel comfortable with Zimmerman being a neighborhood watch volunteer in her community, she said, "if he didn't go too far." She added, "I would feel comfortable having George (as a neighborhood watchman)...I think he's learned a good lesson."

See, that's why George Zimmerman made Trayvon Martin dead. He needed a "good lesson" in how to be a better neighborhood watchman and crimebuster. Trayvon Martin died as an object lesson because that is the proper function of a young black man in our society. And this, mind you, was a juror in the case of how Martin came to be dead. I understand this person very, very well, and I feel very comfortable in telling her to take her barely implicit racism and fk off.


Read more: George Zimmerman Juror's Explanation - More Evidence That It Never Was About Race - Esquire
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/A_Juror_Speaks_Her_Mind

[BeyondGeography]

1. She's a casual monster

Stuff happens. La-dee-da.

[OneGrassRoot]

9. I initially misread it as "causal monster"...

I thought that was absolutely perfect and wanted to thank you.

I see people like her as perpetuating the systemic racism BIG TIME, so "causal monster" really fit.

I now see it's "casual monster" -- which also fits.

Either way, thank you.

[TheLion]

2. The disgusting irony

This *impartial* juror can state, with a straight face, that this trial was never about race, and in the same breath, say:

>... wanting to catch these people ...<

The concept of an impartial jury is dead. There is no way that six white women in Florida were EVER going to give the state an impartial judgement in the case of a white man killing a black man.

[enough]

3. He learned a good lesson????

What lesson is that, exactly?

[SaveAmerica]

4. A jury of your peers, my friends.

[joeybee12]

5. Is that the best they could do for jurors down there?

This woman reeks of ignorance.

[SunSeeker]

6. K & R

[Heather MC]

7. I guess the only good neighborhood watchmen are the gun toting unfortunately killing kind!

So every other neighborhood watchman still has a lesson to learn. Great just great

[KamaAina]

8. The banality of evil.

[Rex]

10. So murdering a kid in cold blood is a good life leason?

B37 is a monster, just like Zimmerman.

[Nye Bevan]

11. Isn't it possible that "these people" referred to those who committed the vandalism?

The sentence was about vandalism in the neighborhood.

[WestSeattle2]

12. That was my take on it as well - the race or nationality of those doing

the vandalizing wasn't the issue at all.

Some posters here are awfully hateful and judgmental.

[leftstreet]

16. Who cares?

'these people' could mean vandals, blacks, the impoverished, the disabled, etc

I'm guessing she could fill in the bigot-blank on all kinds of 'these people'

She's a fucking idiot
Let us watch her hoisting herself on own petard!

[joeglow3]

17. I must be a racist asshole too

There have been a rash of car break ins in our neighborhood and our neighbor three houses down was robbed. I am sick of these people (I have no clue what their race or gender is nor their sexual orientation). I have thought about doing the same thing GZ did - just walk the neighborhood. Difference is that I don't own a gun and wouldn't carry one.

[leftstreet]

18. Not necessarily

You just said you don't know the ethnicity or gender orientation of these individuals

Butthead537 or whatever her name is is happily racist and doesn't mind anyone knowing

[noiretextatique]

20. sure it is

and up is down, and peace is freedom too.

[Bryn]

13. She is just like Michelle Bachmann

Zimmerman is a fucking cop wannabe asshole & should have been thrown to prison for a long time.

[Blue_Tires]

14. Pierce is a daily must-read

[Liberal_in_LA]

15. shut up juror

[Doctor_J]

19. George learned a good lesson. Wow

that's like the people who think what's going on in NC and TX and VA is good - so people will see what Repukes are like.

Can't cure stupid

[UTUSN]

21. R#43 & K n/t

[DonCoquixote]

22. best quote in the article:

If we just understood how the other side felt, if we just could hear them, and not be distracted from their well-meaning, good-hearted opinions by the sound of sniper fire bringing down doctors in their kitchens, then we could come to a balanced solution to this most vexing issue. How'd that work out in practice, anyway?

[BlueToTheBone]

23. Evil is so banal.

She is casual and careless in her racism and hatred for "other." May she receive all her just rewards.

[Scurrilous]

24. K & R