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George Zimmerman Wasn’t on Trial -- We Were

By Daniel Greenfield  ~  July 15, 2013

 "Liberal race-baiting isn’t about race in the same way that rape isn’t about sex. It’s about power."

 "Their show trials indict individuals for the crime of being a member of a class

and then convict the entire class..."

      “What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? 
       " ...in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. " Romans 8:31-32

The one thing that everyone knows about Martin and Zimmerman is the thing that matters least. Race. Based on George Zimmerman’s history, which included defending a black homeless man who had been a victim of police brutality, Trayvon Martin’s race would not have been a factor in his calculations. But the media was not interested in any of those things. The liberal narrative consists of a box labeled 'white racism' that its activists have to fill from time to time. George Zimmerman was put into that box, not because of who he was or what motivated him, but because it was time to put someone in that box.

The race-baiting left had to tell its familiar story and they weren’t going to let anything get in the way of telling that story. They have to tell and retell that story because it establishes their moral authority to run our society and our lives.

The story is black and white with no room for ambiguities or gray areas. It’s about race as martyrdom. It’s about white guilt. The story is already written and the left is always looking to stick someone’s name in the empty space between “White racist” and “Minority victim.” The head of Stalin’s secret police once said, “Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime.” The American left reverses that equation. They already know the crime. All they need is the man.

...It wasn’t George Zimmerman’s freedom that they wanted to take away. It was our freedom....

Zimmerman wasn’t being indicted as one man, but as a representative of a group. It didn’t matter that his appearance, his background and his motives did not fit the profile. He was indicted as a white racist. And by indicting him, the media was actually indicting the ordinary American for being part of a racist system that murders black youth....

Trayvon Martin became every black teenager everywhere. George Zimmerman became every white man everywhere. The simplified portraits of both men transcended their identities and defined them solely by the media’s construct of their races....

The left isn’t just out to indict George Zimmerman. It’s out to indict all of us. It isn’t just out to lock up George Zimmerman....

The first goal of the Zimmerman case was to deepen racial divisions. That mission was undeniably accomplished.... The Trayvon Martin shooting was used to fuel outrage and boost voter turnout in the black community.

Liberal race-baiting isn’t about race in the same way that rape isn’t about sex. It’s about power.


Read the whole article here: http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/george-zimmerman-wasnt-on-trial-we-were/


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