The video of his speech is below, and here is a link to the transcript.
I've posted some highlights from his speech below the video.
"Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago."-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"There are very few African-American men in this country who have not had the experience of being followed when they are shopping at a department store. That includes me."
"There are probably very few African-American men who have not had the experience of walking across the street and hearing the locks click on the doors of cars. That happens to me - at least before I was a senator."
"There are very few African-Americans who have not had the experience of getting on an elevator and a woman clutching her purse nervously and holding her breath until she had the chance to get off. That happens often."
"The African-American community is also knowledgeable that there is a history of racial disparities in the application of our criminal laws, everything from the death penalty to enforcement of our drug laws," he said. "And that ends up having an impact in terms of how people interpret the case."
There is a photograph now (very recently) circulating of George Zimmerman's family.
Below is the photograph. Zimmerman's black great grandfather is holding George's mother, Gladys, in his arms. The woman in the back is George's grandmother.
The photograph was taken in Peru. Gladys Zimmerman, George's mother, traveled from her native Peru to Florida to visit relatives, where she met Robert Zimmerman Sr. They married in 1975.
Zimmerman must be aware of this photograph, of his infant mother in his grandfather's arms. That is a powerful image to have of one's close relative. In the multi-ethnic family in which he clearly grew up (this source says that Zimmerman's mulatto grandmother took care of him as a child), Zimmerman must have had some empathy for all these different races. How can he hate a black grandfather? How can he hate a Hispanic mother? And his white father of German descent?
Here is the contrast of ethnicities between Robert Zimmerman Sr. and his wife Gladys Zimmerman:
In the jumbled racial world in which Zimmerman grew up, he cannot have strong "racist" feelings, unless he is after some vendetta for the obvious confusions this heritage brings him. And everyone who knows Zimmerman says he was not a vengeful person. He grew up to be an upright and good man.
Shame on those who try to malign him.
The jurists, try as they probably did, couldn't find anything with which to implicate him.
I think his saving grace was his cry for help as Travis was pummeling him on the back of his head. Neighbors heard his shout, as did the telephone call he made to report his capture of the assailant.
What mature, adult male cries for help when attacked? He fights back instead.
I think he was crying out to God, to someone higher than him to prevent him from doing what he he knew he was driven to do. But, he obeyed that instinct. He had to defend himself.
George Zimmerman was after truth, not racial bias. He was doing his job of protecting his neighborhood, with which he had been entrusted. He
Slowly, surely, the demonic hatred of whites by non-whites is coming to the surface.
But a non-white with a varied and multi-ethnic background, including a black one, who pursues truth and reality, and stakes out a black criminal, is deemed a "white racist" whereas a non-white with almost a similar racial background of white and black roots, yet who demonizes whites and favors and enriches blacks, is deemed acceptable. And who is the latter? None other than President Barack Obama.
But, as I've written before, whites are understanding this. Their persistent support of Obama is not paying off. He is in fact systematically weakening them, with the aim of strengthening blacks through their (whites') money and efforts.
Sooner or later, whites will catch on, for good.
Left: A jovial, happy Obama. It seems he had a different, happier, childhood from George Zimmerman's.I have deduced Obama's age in the photo above, since there is no age given anywhere online where the photo appears (how can professional sites not include an important .
Photo Source: Salon.com describes Obama's and Ann Dunham's photo, from which I cropped the above Obama portrait, as:US Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) is seen as a child with his mother Ann Dunham in an undated family snapshot from the 1960's released by his presidential campaign, February 4, 2008.Right: Zimmerman at seven years old, young and serious.
Perhaps life as a multi-racial child was not easy
Photo Source: Daily Mail
- Obama was born in 1961Based on this, I would put Obama as five or six years old.
- Various sources, including the 2012 Financial Press, indicate that the photograph was taken in Honolulu.
- Obama was in Honolulu twice:
-- Once when he went to kindergarten from 1966-1967
-- Much later in 1971 when he returned to resume his 5th grade, after time in Indonesia from 1967-1970.
- The photo of the toddler Obama was taken in 1966, presumably when he was there for his brief Honolulu stay in kindergarten.
- Kindergarten age for US schools is five to six years old
From this bit of leg work, what I intended to do was to show the two very different personalities of who resemble each other racially.
Obama seems to have taken his racial confusion to the level of a vendetta, where whites are the evil incarnate, whose financial and empathic energy needs to be milked to right the wrongs they've done, from slavery to impoverished inner city black neighborhoods. He won his election on the guilt of whites and the vendetta demanded by blacks.
Zimmerman, who was labeled as a white racist, in fact has black and non-white Hispanic roots. Yet, his search was for truth, or more precisely, a desire to fight the evils of crime. The testimonies that keep surfacing show that he was, if anything, doing his job of keeping his neighborhood safe from criminals. Yet, he is shown no mercy by blacks, who refuse to see what is in front of them, and will rearrange facts to suit their bitter demands.
Truthful blacks and angry whites will at some point demand that these biases stop. It may be a "civil rights" type of peaceful transition, or it may be more violent and volatile.
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Posted By: Kidist P. Asrat
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