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There’s No Double Standard: Why the Killings of Trayvon Martin and Chris Lane Are Not the Same
Over the last few days there has been a rumbling of sorts throughout white America – or at least a certain segment of it – that the recent shooting of Chris Lane is on a par with the shooting of Trayvon Martin.
Why isn’t the main-stream media talking about this obvious and blatant example of reverse racism? Where is President Obama’s outrage over this heinous act? And why couldn’t Chris Lane just as easily have been his son? After all, he is half white, isn’t he? Why no mourning for the death of a white man at the hands of black thugs who, from the evidence, had a predisposed hatred of white people?
This is the sort of false equivalence argument that makes my blood boil. It is not based on empirical evidence; rather it is based on a flawed theory that says all violence is ostensibly equal and that therefore there is a quid pro quo at work.
To be clear, the mopes who committed this ghastly crime should rot in prison for the rest of their natural lives, as should anyone who kills another human being. . . . If you’re going to engage in nonsensical equivalency arguments you should at least have the decency to admit your guy got away with murder, literally.
If you at all followed the trial you kinda knew deep down the Martin family was screwed from the get go. There was never going to be any justice in that courtroom. Indeed, if you are black and Hispanic and you happen to live in a state that has a “Stand Your Ground” law, you already know that you have two strikes against you anytime you go toe to toe with a white man. The law is basically a license to shoot anyone perceived as a threat to you. And that’s why it is imbecilic to even remotely equate the killing of Chris Lane with Trayvon Martin. Yes, both men were shot by someone of the opposite race and neither had done anything to warrant death. But that is where the similarity ends. . . .Without the byproduct of 400 years of systemic racism to fuel his resentment there was never any reason for Zimmerman to confront Martin in the first place. All James Edwards needed was a target. Anyone would’ve sufficed. Sadly Chris Lane just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Why isn’t the main-stream media talking about this obvious and blatant example of reverse racism? Where is President Obama’s outrage over this heinous act? And why couldn’t Chris Lane just as easily have been his son? After all, he is half white, isn’t he? Why no mourning for the death of a white man at the hands of black thugs who, from the evidence, had a predisposed hatred of white people?
This is the sort of false equivalence argument that makes my blood boil. It is not based on empirical evidence; rather it is based on a flawed theory that says all violence is ostensibly equal and that therefore there is a quid pro quo at work.
To be clear, the mopes who committed this ghastly crime should rot in prison for the rest of their natural lives, as should anyone who kills another human being. . . . If you’re going to engage in nonsensical equivalency arguments you should at least have the decency to admit your guy got away with murder, literally.
If you at all followed the trial you kinda knew deep down the Martin family was screwed from the get go. There was never going to be any justice in that courtroom. Indeed, if you are black and Hispanic and you happen to live in a state that has a “Stand Your Ground” law, you already know that you have two strikes against you anytime you go toe to toe with a white man. The law is basically a license to shoot anyone perceived as a threat to you. And that’s why it is imbecilic to even remotely equate the killing of Chris Lane with Trayvon Martin. Yes, both men were shot by someone of the opposite race and neither had done anything to warrant death. But that is where the similarity ends. . . .Without the byproduct of 400 years of systemic racism to fuel his resentment there was never any reason for Zimmerman to confront Martin in the first place. All James Edwards needed was a target. Anyone would’ve sufficed. Sadly Chris Lane just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
http://thebigslice.org/theres-no-double-standard-why-the-killings-of-trayvon-martin-and-chris-lane-are-not-the-same/
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