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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (648691)	3/23/2012 7:27:36 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583384

>>. Inode, my issue is that you seem to feel more for those kids who died because they were dealing in illegal narcotics than for Trayvon Martin who was dealing in a bag of Skittles. Not the case at all. I have a problem with Obama using it for political purposes while he turns a blind eye to all the innocent, and sometimes not so innocent, lives lost in this idiotic drug war. I think what happened in the case of Trayvon, from what I've seen of it, was murder. But it is no more a murder in my view than was what happens in every city on a daily basis which Obama and almost all other politicians just look away to avoid. If Obama really wanted to make a difference he would try to do something about thousands of drug related murders, rather, he chooses a politically convenient one to speak out about. It is sorry. A three year old kid gets gunned down in a Miami neighborhood and he has nothing to say about it. Gunned down because of stupid drug laws. Where was he then?

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (648691)	3/24/2012 1:38:11 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1583384

Trayvon was a negro youth inside a conservative gated community. He should have known better. The next boy will, thanks to his sacrifice.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (648691)	3/24/2012 10:35:23 AM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583384

"But it's clear to me that you have no interest in actually discussing the Trayvon Martin case." what do you really know about the case ? why was Zimmerman on the ground ? Was he the one screaming ? have you seen Trayvon's police record ?

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (648691)	3/24/2012 10:36:24 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1583384

Newt calls Obama's Trayvon Martin comments 'disgraceful' \| 3/23/12 7:11 PM EDT Per POLITICO's Ginger Gibson, Newt Gingrich accused President Obama of playing race: Newt Gingrich called Obama's remarks about Trayvon Martin "disgraceful" in an interview with Sean Hannity, according to CBS/National Journal. “It’s not a question of who that young man looked like. Any young American of any ethnic background should be safe, period. We should all be horrified no matter what the ethnic background," Gingrich said. "Is the President suggesting that if it had been a white who had been shot that would be ok because it didn’t look like him?" Earlier in the day Gingrich told reporters that he thought the case should be investigated and suggested the shooter was at fault. "That’s just nonsense dividing this country up. It is a tragedy this young man was shot," Gingrich continued on Hannity's show. "It would have been a tragedy if he had been Puerto Rican or Cuban or if he had been white or if he had been Asian-American of if he’d been a Native American. At some point we ought to talk about being Americans. When things go wrong to an American. It is sad for all Americans. Trying to turn it into a racial issue is fundamentally wrong. I really find it appalling.” Obama has gotten some criticism for discussing a pending legal matter. But the question of whether Martin's race was a factor in his death, in which his alleged shooter was not arrested, is very much a part of the outcry over the case, and why it's gotten so much attention.