{"id":36493,"date":"2013-07-14T21:19:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T01:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=36493"},"modified":"2020-07-07T21:19:59","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T01:19:59","slug":"well-that-was-predictable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=36493","title":{"rendered":"Well, that was predictable"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I was watching a baseball game when suddenly the scores ticker at the bottom of the screen turned red and started scrolling \u201cGEORGE ZIMMERMAN WAS FOUND\u201d and I mouthed the words \u201cnot guilty\u201d before it slowly scrolled out the words \u201cNOT GUILTY.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

My first thought was curiosity of when the first rash of race-related protests were going to start.\u00a0 When the game ended, I switched to FOX News and CNN (yeah, I know, they\u2019re not exactly the most reliable news outlets but I don\u2019t really know of any others, nor did I really care that much to inquire), and sure enough the protests were already in full swing, and naturally it wasn\u2019t so much about George Zimmerman being found not guilty, but about how the black man was once again wronged.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I could be wrong, but I don\u2019t remember there being any protests by white people when OJ Simpson was found not guilty for murdering two people.\u00a0 I do remember an editorial in TIME Magazine which showed a picture of a room that looked like a lobby during the moment of the not guilty verdict being reached in the OJ trial, and all the black people were out of their feet with their fists raised in victory and smiles on their faces, while all the white people were somberly still seated and looking disappointed or indifferent.\u00a0 The caption read \u201cA picture worth a thousand words?\u00a0 People looking on at the time of the verdict of the OJ Simpson trial.<\/em>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway, back to the case of George Zimmerman, I get why there were protests, but at the same time, I think that if people were paying attention to the case, they frankly didn\u2019t have much reason to protest, because the conclusion to the trial became extremely transparently predictable once the groundwork for determining the verdict were established.\u00a0 It would be one thing if people were protesting the poor way in which deciding what should be judged upon, but they\u2019re not.\u00a0 They\u2019re protesting the simple notion that George Zimmerman is allowed to be free because the person he killed was black, and nothing else.\u00a0 Unless they were protesting that the direction of the trial were allowed and steered into the direction it went because Trayvon Martin was black, and that would be some slightly more meta shit, but frankly their signs and chants don\u2019t seem to indicate such.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m not going to claim that I definitively know everything about the case, because it\u2019s quite the contrary.\u00a0 If you asked me before the trial started, I would have figured that it was as much a layup as there ever could be, because it was a not-black guy killing a black guy.\u00a0 But to some regard, the media did its job, and I ended up picking up enough bits and pieces of the whole debacle to become somewhat interested, and it was on every television at the gym (that\u2019s employed by 90% black guys hmm) that couldn\u2019t be controlled by users, to where I could see how things progressed on a daily basis.<\/span><\/p>\n

What I do know, is that the prosecution equipped themselves with spoons going into a knife fight.\u00a0 Whenever I hear the term \u201cstar witness,\u201d I imagine a person who can essentially break a trial, or at least swing it decisively towards the side they\u2019re on.\u00a0 Instead the prosecution brings out a 19-year old girl, and I\u2019ll use the description I read on Barstool, because it\u2019s pretty spot on, \u00a0that looked like Precious with E. Honda\u2019s top-knot.\u00a0 The defense snuffed her out like whenever one WCW superstar ran to the ring to defend another guy from the nWo, but then got destroyed by all ten other nWo members.\u00a0 Not only was she not given any preparation of what to expect by being on the stand by the prosecution, it would be revealed that she could barely speak English, and was incapable of reading cursive handwriting (seriously?).\u00a0 The rest of the internet then took great relish in dismantling her themselves, with prejudice, photoshopping her to hell and back, and pointing out her Twitter account where she essentially admits to underage drinking, drunkeness and taking pictures of her shiny painted nails while waiting to go on the stand.<\/span><\/p>\n

And then there\u2019s whole \u201cwhat exactly is the trial trying to determine\u201d thing.\u00a0 I have to imagine that there are all sorts of things that George Zimmerman could have been found guilty of.<\/span><\/p>\n