The Murder of Trayvon Martin

[DrPhil]

Rant/

I don't dislike Rush Limbaugh and I sometimes see what he is at least trying to say. With that said....

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2013/07/22/barack_obama_has_more_in_common_with_george_zimmer man_than_trayvon_martin

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I agree, white people around the world and in the U.S.A. should not feel guilty. Guilt is annoying and breeds annoying things like (1) diversity trainings, (2) color blindness, (3) colorblind racism, (4) nonstop apologies, and (5) apologetic demeanor that is actually conducive to racism and discrimination.

DUH, white people around the world are not the only people to have slaves and participate in slave trades. Anyone who has studied history knows that Native groups and groups of the African diaspora, among other groups around the world, owned people because slavery is about using easily targeted humans as cattle. No, white people around the world are not the only people to go to war to abolish slavery to boot. That would be amusing considering white ethnic groups around the world are among the central components of world slavery. It is like whooping someone's ass for centuries, coming to your senses and apologizing, and expecting to be thanked for coming to your senses. The abolition of slavery in the Americas was generally not rooted in the inhumanity and immorality of slavery. For many abolitionists, it was rooted in what can be gained beyond the slave trade. Many of these white people did not hate Black people, they loved money which is the monetary root of slavery around the world. Money is correlated with race, ethnicity, and culture but it is spans beyond race, ethnicity, and culture. Abolish slavery if you can find a better way to make money and to oppress disadvantaged racial, ethnic, cultural, and religious groups.

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No, President Obama is not more similar to Zimmerman than Martin just because he is biracial and "raised in Hawaii by two rich white people and attended a prep school." People tend not to see our resume' or family background when they see us. They tend to see the group identifiers with which they believe we can be easily categorized.

/rant