If George Zimmerman was black and Trayvon Martin was white...

[tpfkaw]

This should be very amusing.

[Yank2133]

Zimmerman would have been convicted of manslaughter.

[DrScholl]

Manslaughter, it was the appropriate charge.

[Del Tachi]

No one would care because the case would have never garnered enough attention to make it a national story...

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Manslaughter, it was the appropriate charge.

[DC Al Fine]

As Dibble said in the other thread: No watchman, regardless of race, would question a white boy walking around a gated community.

[7,052,770]

Not guilty, just like in the Zimmerman case.

And I would have done so reluctantly, against my hunch, because of the lack of proof, just like in the Zimmerman case.

[BluegrassBlueVote]

It's hard to say since white Martin clearly would have never been approached.

[NVGonzalez]

Manslaughter, it was the appropriate charge.

[Modernity has failed us]

As Dibble said in the other thread: No watchman, regardless of race, would question a white boy walking around a gated community.

This is a fact.

It's also a fact that if the two switched races, Zimmerman would have been convicted in a heartbeat.

[Silent Hunter]

It's also a fact that if this was 60 years ago, Zimmerman might not have been prosecuted in the first place.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Not guilty

[dead0man]

No one would care because the case would have never garnered enough attention to make it a national story...

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[barfbag]

No one would care because the case would have never garnered enough attention to make it a national story...

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That's very true. Blacks murder non-blacks all the time and when they murder other blacks the media looks the other way because it gives the black community a bad name.

[Sbane]

No one would care because the case would have never garnered enough attention to make it a national story...

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Very true and our hypothetical black Zimmerman would be in jail or death row. Agreed?

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

No one would care because the case would have never garnered enough attention to make it a national story...

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Very true and our hypothetical black Zimmerman would be in jail or death row. Agreed?

Not death row.

[minionofmidas]

As Dibble said in the other thread: No watchman, regardless of race, would question a white boy walking around a gated community.

And nobody, in southern suburbia, would dream of sparing him the electic chair if he did.

[DC Al Fine]

Red avatars: Why on earth do you think black Zimmerman would get a 1st degree murder conviction?

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

As Dibble said in the other thread: No watchman, regardless of race, would question a white boy walking around a gated community.

And nobody, in southern suburbia, would dream of sparing him the electic chair if he did.

Oh, quit your trolling.  Someone from Southern suburbia has already said they'd find him not guilty, in this very thread...

Not guilty, just like in the Zimmerman case.

And I would have done so reluctantly, against my hunch, because of the lack of proof, just like in the Zimmerman case.

[Lief 🗽]

Red avatars: Why on earth do you think black Zimmerman would get a 1st degree murder conviction?

Because that's the way the justice system works in this country when a violent ghetto thug stalks and murders an innocent white child. Especially in a Southern state like Florida. Burdens of proof aren't necessary when the defendant is black.

[Bacon King]

I personally believe nothing would have happened at all, echoing this:

As Dibble said in the other thread: No watchman, regardless of race, would question a white boy walking around a gated community.

And if the altercation still did happen, it probably would have been like this:

No one would care because the case would have never garnered enough attention to make it a national story...

Black Zimmerman wouldn't have been allowed to just go home, he would have definitely been taken back to the police statiion and they would have crossed every T and dotted every I from the beginning. The media only got interested when that wasn't the case.

I think it would have been more likely for him to get the manslaughter charge but I wouldn't be surprised if he still got off.


I like the question of swapped races here, hence why I posted the thread with that picture, because it's very interesting how people with different viewpoints interpret it totally different ways.

[opebo]

Red avatars: Why on earth do you think black Zimmerman would get a 1st degree murder conviction?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_and_ethnic_discrimination_in_the_United_States

[opebo]

Though I have to say, to be fair, Zimmerman didn't look all that white to me.  He looked like he could have been mixed race or Hispanic.  I suppose he could be a Jew.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

Though I have to say, to be fair, Zimmerman didn't look all that white to me.  He looked like he could have been mixed race or Hispanic.  I suppose he could be a Jew.

And his name ends with man, and names ending in man are Jewish.

[Lief 🗽]

Three similar cases, with the racial roles reversed: http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/07/15/2297541/self-defense-zimmerman/?mobile=nc

SPOILER ALERT: the black people lose each time.