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In reply to the discussion: (White) Man Beaten By Mob, In Critical Condition "Justice for Trayvon" [View all]The Magistrate
(95,247 posts)Understand, if any 'inflaming' has been done, it owes to the killing without just cause of Mr. Martin, and the intention of the local authorities to leave Zimmerman go without let or hinderance. Hue and cry to compel the authorities to do their job and arrest Zimmerman and charge him with murder is proper use of free speech to petition for redress of grievances; what democracy in this country is supposed to be about: it is not 'inflaming racial tensions.'
Racial tensions have been inflamed by a deliberate political policy of the party, appealing to white racism for votes since the campaign of Sen. Goldwater in 1964. The root of this is the refusal of many white people to accept blacks as equals, whether regarded as citizens, as legal persons, or just as human beings, and white resentment at the removal of open and unassailable social constructs reflecting white superiority and black inferiority.