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To: tejek who wrote (733958)	8/21/2013 3:41:45 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Respond to of 1578445

'Who will Obama identify with on this one?' On the heels of news that three Oklahoma teens allegedly shot and killed an Australian jogger for sport, former Florida Republican Rep. Allen West lashed out at President Obama and the “race industry crew.” “‘We were bored & decided to kill somebody.’ 3 black teens shoot white jogger.Who will POTUS identify w/this time?” West tweeted Tuesday afternoon with a link to a New York Post article on the matter. Following the acquittal of shooter George Zimmerman for the killing of Florida teen Trayvon Martin, Obama said that Martin ”could have been me 35 years ago.” Earlier, Obama had said that if he had a son, “he’d look like Trayvon.” (RELATED: The racists Tweets of one of the accused teenagers) West cast a wider net on Facebook. “[S]hall we hear anything from the race industry crew, Hollywood elites, or maybe Oprah Winfrey? The issue is not about proliferation of guns in America. This is about a failing black community and the fact that its young men are desensitized to violence because a gangsta culture promotes it,” West wrote on Facebook, reiterating his Twitter question. “So who will President Obama identify with in this case?” Chancey Allen Luna, 16, and James Francis Edwards Jr., 15, have been charged with first-degree murder in the Friday shooting death of Australian baseball player Chris Lane in Duncan, Oklahoma. Michael Dewayne Jones, 17, is being charged with the use of a vehicle in the discharge of a weapon and accessory after the fact to murder. Jones told police that the teens killed Lane “for the fun of it” and because they “were bored and decided to kill somebody.” Read more: dailycaller.com

To: tejek who wrote (733958)	8/21/2013 4:25:17 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	4 Recommendations Recommended By FJB one_less TideGlider TopCat Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578445

Ted, The problem is people like you don't see it all. Oh bullshit. Zimmerman profiled Trayvon. Is that racist? Technically yes. Do black youths get a bum deal because of it? Of course. Is that a valid reason to convict Zimmerman of murder? No. Is that a valid reason to castigate Zimmerman and drive him into hiding for the rest of his life? No. Adam Jones tweeted that a banana was thrown at him. Was that racist? No, Adam Jones never posted anything about race, and the guy who threw the banana said he was only expressing his frustration at the game and grabbed whatever was near him at the time. Only the media drew a "connection" between this incident and some isolated incidents in the past where bananas were used in racial taunts in sports. Both of these were used as examples by SilentZ to "prove" that I deny racism whenever I can. But it can be argued that racism is being overplayed in these two examples. I point this out, only to have the white libtards on this thread tell me that I'm "denying that racism exists at all." This is complete bullshit, and I should not have to defend myself from such ludicrous accusations, except for the fact that this is the legacy of political correctness and that I'm forced to deal with it. Tenchusatsu