You won't recognize me.

Bob wrote:

You won't recognize me. My name was Antonio West and I was the 13-month old child who was shot at point blank range by two teens who were attempting to rob my mother, who was also shot. A Grand Jury of my mommy's peers from Brunswick, GA, determined the teens who murdered me will not face the death penalty...too bad I was given a death sentence for being innocent and defenseless.

My family made the mistake of being white in a 73% non-white neighborhood, but my murder was not ruled a Hate Crime. Nor did President Obama take so much as a single moment to acknowledge my murder.

I am one of the youngest murder victims in our great Nation's history, but the media doesn't care to cover the story of my tragic demise. President Obama has no children who could possibly look like me - so he doesn't care and the media doesn't care because my story is not interesting enough to bring them ratings so they can sell commercial time slots.

There is not a white equivalent of Al Sharpton because, if there was, he would be declared racist; so, there is no one rushing to Brunswick, GA, to demand justice for me. There is no White Panther party to put a bounty on the lives of those who murdered me. I have no voice, I have no representation and unlike those who shot me in the face while I sat innocently in my stroller - I no longer have my life.

So while you are seeking justice for Treyvon, please remember to seek justice for me too. Tell your friends about me, tell you families, get tee shirts with my face on them and make the world pay attention, just like you did for Treyvon.

2seaoat wrote:Racism is alive and well.

Bob wrote:"If there was a white equivalent to Al Sharpton he would be called a racist"

Looks like seaoat proved whoever wrote to right!  Lol

2seaoat wrote:before because a bunch of his black "friends" burned it down because he talked and was friendly to white people...true story.

Then this would be a true equivalency.......those black racist lynch and burning black folks homes because they were friendly with white folk.....true stories.....those other lynchings and burnings were uncertain.......

2seaoat wrote:.I think you enjoy it.

I have seen the pain of the continuing racism in this country.......I could tell a hundred stories or I could tell one from this week.......what does it matter, I cannot make people courageous.......we cower in our homes when people call out for help.....we carry concealed weapons because we are afraid and weak, we pretend that racism is gone in America.....this grand illusion, and when somebody points out the obvious.....they are accused of enjoying the same.  I prefer to live my life with courage.....to put my childish fears aside......to walk like a man......not afraid of my shadows or the diversity which has changed my Mayberry.   I simply want Andy......I am sick to death with the Barney syndrome which has consumed America.

2seaoat wrote:Racism is policy.  It is politics.   It is not a wart on somebody's nose.  The politics of fear will increase our border by 20k employees, or cut food stamps and give subsidy to large agriculture corporations, because we do not want to give freeloaders and their worthless children food.......what you think the whole conceal and carry debate is about......the threat of black crime, and the need for wimps to have guns.....I get that because some of that fear is real, but when racism is used to divide people and work against their mutual interests, it could not get any uglier.   You go ahead and convince others about where your heart is.....It is not my call, but the threads we post tell a great deal about who we are..........

Bob wrote:It's pretty revealing that neither seaoat nor Sal have expressed any sympathy for that 3 month old.   And instead of having any feeling for that child all they want to do is preach about racism.

Sal wrote:

And, for those who are a little slow on recognizing false equivalencies, were the perpetrators of this vile act promptly arrested and charged?