Black Lives Matter

Well, there will never, ever be peace without justice. There will never be calmness without accountability. There will never be order without fairness. So when I hear the authorities call for peace and call for calmness and call for order, I say, yes, but it’s not the absence of tension. It’s got to be the presence of that justice and accountability and that fairness. When I hear the authorities – even President Obama says, well, the attack on the police is an attack on all of us. I said, OK, but an attack on black people, especially black youth, is also attack on all of us. If, in fact, the attack on the police is an assault on all of us, then when the police unfairly maims and murders civilians, the police is killing on behalf of all of us. Well, I don’t want the police killing on behalf of me. I want the police to be treated with respect and fairly, and I want black youth and brown youth, black men and black women to be treated fairly. Cornel West ☀

George Zimmerman: The Mind of a Cold Blooded Murderer

Taken from Pyschology Today:


"Let's analyze Zimmerman's mind-set: He mentioned to the 911 dispatcher that there had been several burglaries in the neighborhood, and NBCMiami confirmed that there were 8 burglaries within the last 15 months, and that most of those were by young black men.


Zimmerman had called 911, 46 times during those 15 months, one of them being on April 22, 2011 to report a suspicious 7 year old black boy. A 7 year old boy? Clearly Zimmerman's was paranoid, angry and perhaps fearful. When he saw a young black male walking with a hoodie, his mind associated this with the prior burglaries and immediately jumped to the conclusion "guilty!" At that point what is a "neighborhood watch captain" to do? Why, be the hero, of course.


This led him to follow Martin. When he sees something in his hand his pre-conditioned brain immediately thinks "weapon" and when the confrontation developed, Zimmerman, as a criminal justice major understood ‘stand your ground' and twisted this into a justification. Then as things escalated and a scuffle began, his mind racing with jumbled emotion, fear, anger and thinking he was in the right, he drew the gun and shot Martin.


Trayvon Martin's death is clearly a tragedy in every sense of the word but it has nothing to do with ‘Stand Your Ground', gun control or the second amendment. This is about psychology and badly warped judgment by a single individual. A perfect storm of events, misperceptions and, yes, prejudice.


In terms of preventing a recurrence in the future? Education would be the place to start. There is no law that would have prevented this—you can't legislate good judgment."


Zimmerman displays:


Poor conflict resolution
Anger Management
Racist Mindset
Poor Judgement
Paranoia
Poor Impulse Control
Able To Twist Gun Laws
Wanted to Kill for Years


May hate himself for being
gay and attracted to young
Black Males


Raised to view certain types of people as inferior


Does not feel safe without a gun even
though Zimmerman is big