{"id":8607,"date":"2013-07-24T10:36:41","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T10:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/24\/roderick-scott-the-black-george-zimmerman\/"},"modified":"2013-07-24T10:36:41","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T10:36:41","slug":"roderick-scott-the-black-george-zimmerman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/24\/roderick-scott-the-black-george-zimmerman\/","title":{"rendered":"Roderick Scott, the Black George Zimmerman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Black man shoots and kills<\/a> white 'child' and is acquitted.  The Zimmerman case with colors reversed.  Here is how the piece ends:<\/span><\/p>\n

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This is what\u2019s wrong with the culture of New York State.  Our state values victims over victors.  It enshrines passivity over direct action to preempt or thwart criminal activity.  It excuses the acts of teenaged thugs, revising history to absolve them of blame for their petty crimes, while pillorying good citizens who dare to defend themselves with legally permitted arms.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a state with the strictest gun control in the union, to own a legal handgun is no small thing.  Roderick Scott is a decent person who did everything legally and correctly\u2026 yet in the minds of many, he is the villain simply because he dared not to do nothing<\/em>.  Had this shooting occurred in another state with less liberal hand-wringing underlying its legal code, it\u2019s possible Roderick Scott would never have stood trial.  It is, quite frankly, a miracle that the jury \u2014 deadlocked just a few hours before it came to the \u201cnot guilty\u201d verdict \u2014 eventually granted Scott his life back.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fortunately, Roderick Scott is not bitter.  \u201cI feel that justice was served today,\u201d he said after his legal ordeal.<\/span><\/p>\n

His lawyer was diplomatic but more pointed: \u201cI just want to say that I hope this case sends a message to families out there to watch their kids, to know where they are and what they are doing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

That lawyer\u2019s message is clear: If your kids live like garbage, trade in garbage, and contribute nothing to their community but<\/em> garbage, they very well may die like garbage.  If that happens they have no one to blame but themselves\u2026 though their parents ought to think good and hard about whether they share responsibility.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Exactly right.  Live like a punk, die like a punk.  Equal justice for all, no matter what the race or ethnicity.  No excuses for blacks.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Black man shoots and kills white 'child' and is acquitted.  The Zimmerman case with colors reversed.  Here is how the piece ends: This is what\u2019s wrong with the culture of New York State.  Our state values victims over victors.  It enshrines passivity over direct action to preempt or thwart criminal activity.  It excuses the acts … Continue reading “Roderick Scott, the Black George Zimmerman”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}