If Zimmerman is convicted, will conservative, gun wielding, white people riot?

[Agnosticsherbet]

I've seen the question and concern asked the other way around. So I am wondering, with all the concern that Zimmerman was just standing h is ground, will white people concerned that candy wielding hoodie wearing black kids run rampant in their neighborhood riot to show their anger at the injustice of profiling and killing an unarmed teenager.

[Robb]

1. The sign will be the cloud of Cheetos dust. Keep watching the skies.

[Agnosticsherbet]

5. I will watch for it.

[onestepforward]

75. LOL! n/t

[Rex]

2. No, that is some racist trash being thrown around by RWing/Foxnews types.

They WANT there to be violence and more bloodshed.

[Agnosticsherbet]

8. It is said th e other way everywhere.

But few entertain it the other way around.

I just think it is interesting to see that in print and ask why no one is saying that.

[Rex]

15. Oh I understand and was wondering if anyone would make a thread like this one.

nt.

[Pab Sungenis]

20. I almost alerted on your post

but once I saw what you were aiming at, I understood and agreed wholeheartedly.

[Agnosticsherbet]

24. Just after I posted, I realized that might happen.

But, what the hell. Some questions have to be asked.

We will never get the right answers, without first asking the right questions.

[Cooley Hurd]

3. No, because conservative, gun-wielding white people haven't been enslaved, or lynched...

...or fucking profiled and followed and HARASSED while going into a store, repeatedly for 150+ years.

The false-equivalency of race in this country is astounding!

[MotherPetrie]

6. +1

[Agnosticsherbet]

13. Not my exact point. I wanted to reverse the meme

that is used even in supposed less right wing information media sources.

Personally, I think they are afraid of riots because of basic racial bias and stereotypes.

[Cooley Hurd]

16. Your point is irrelevant. Reality is.

[Zoeisright]

65. BINGO!!!

God, what an incredibly racist and stupid OP.

[99Forever]

73. Exactly.

The OP is a stinking pile of absurd racist nonsense.

[tularetom]

4. The Million Beer Bellies March

[Ilsa]

49. LOL. You're in great form tonight!

I'm sitting here on the porch, reading DU, reading tularetom's posts, thinking, "fukin' A, man."

[tularetom]

58. It's a great night for porch sitting ain't it?

We sat out there, drank wine and watched the cows on the hillside across the creek.

Until it got dark and the skeeters chased us inside.

[uponit7771]

81. +1

[Pab Sungenis]

7. Some are already discussing it on Facebook.

[Cooley Hurd]

10. Sounds like terrorism to me. I hope the red bars are removed...

[Pab Sungenis]

11. The names have been removed

to protect the stupid.

I have the original, though.

[Pab Sungenis]

18. And before you ask

I did already click on the "report to Facebook" link.

[Cooley Hurd]

19. Cool!

[Agnosticsherbet]

17. That doesn't surprisre me. The guys posting naked form the mother's basement crowd...

is heavily armed and angry.

[ZombieHorde]

22. I am not very talented at race issues, but I believe the first post is anti-black satire. nt

[bluedigger]

30. That has to be satire.

The KFC?

"burning our own homes and apartments and businesses to the ground in a show of solidarity"?

[Igel]

44. Sarcasm?

The best you got is sarcasm?

[Pab Sungenis]

48. I'm not buying into the whole race riot thing

On either side.

[NoOneMan]

9. You can't win them all

White males are the benefactors of this system, who know you can't win them all. Why would they riot? They aren't the oppressed who don't win any

[Agnosticsherbet]

21. The real question why is't anyone using that meme...

I see it repeated everywhere, and I think it is just deep racial bias. The number of concern trolls in the media that ask, "Will black riot" is ridiculous. To be fair, if they are concerned one way they should be fair and be concerned the other.

[bushisanidiot]

12. Those who would riot have been rioting since President Obama won his first election

They are called the republican tea party.

[riverwalker]

14. they will blame women

"that female judge and those 6 wimmin"
you can count on it.

[Agnosticsherbet]

26. That does seem to be the default Republian whipping boy right now. n/t

[Ilsa]

50. You mean "whipping girl". It's the 1st time GOPers are equal-opportunity. nt

[Nye Bevan]

23. When was the last time "conservative, gun wielding, white people" rioted?

I'm drawing a blank here.

[Agnosticsherbet]

25. In general, they call out the national guard to do their murdering for them.

or they put on white robes and have a lynching.

In the 1892 Homestead, PA strike, the called out the state militia and hired Pinkerton detectives to do their rioting. (3 Pinkerton detectives and eleven union men and bystanders died.)

When you have power, you can hire people to do your rioting for you. It is only the powerless and downtrodden who are accused of rioting.

Conservative, gun wielding, white people call that standing up for their rights.

[1StrongBlackMan]

54. That’s an important point …

When white folks riot … it’s called a lynching, or social unrest, or ... anything but rioting.

[Number23]

55. "social unrest" My friend, you just won the Internet.

[1StrongBlackMan]

59. Or, and we can't forget this one ...

just really, really happy their sports team won the big game!

See in America, white white rip sh!t up and burn sh!t down for a good reason; whereas, with Black folks ... it's a response to heat, humidity and ... oh, yeah ... an unreasonable response to social pressure, frustration and disappointment.

[aristocles]

27. In this country, i know some of the first times

The Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party.

[Skip Intro]

35. Now don't ruin a perfectly good race baiting thread, Nye. n/t

[Lizzie Poppet]

62. Bingo.

Usually you'd have to go to some disgusting site like chimpout.org to see racist stereotyping in full force. Now? Just come to DU...

[NoGOPZone]

37. Then you should read more American history

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

[Nye Bevan]

46. DAMN. How could I have forgotten the 1943 Zoot Suit Riots?

My bad.

[JoePhilly]

76. I'm going to say ... around 1850. nt

[bluedigger]

28. I thought they had been pre-rioting since...1861?

[coldmountain]

29. I bet there will be killings justified by Zimmerman conviction somehow

[gollygee]

31. They'll know they don't have an handy loophole if they want to shoot someone.

I think that would be a good thing.

[Agnosticsherbet]

32. This case doesn't make stand your ground go away.

But it will show that it is not a perfect defense for murder.

[Skip Intro]

33. Will Hispanics riot?

[upaloopa]

34. they will threaten to but they're to pansy assed to follow through

[Township75]

36. Why White people and not Mixed-Race people? Isn't that what Zimmerman is?

?

[Agnosticsherbet]

39. If Zimmerman is convicted, he won't riot. His supporters I've seen do not claim to be "mixed race."

In most places I've seen them, they tend to be closer to the lilies in the field than a mix of begonias.

Besides, most black people in America are descended from slaves so most of them are of mixed genetic ancestry because their owners considered their females as property.

In reality, race doesn't exist from a scientific point of view, we are humans. Race is a social construct.

[riverwalker]

38. they've already started

Zimmerman supporter protesting already
:large

[Hoyt]

47. CAC is apt term for Zimmerman and that yahoo.

[RZM]

61. That's a riot?

Looks more like two people standing around with signs.

[premium]

72. That's rioting?

A few people holding signs in protest is rioting?

[NoGOPZone]

40. No, of course not

they may rebel, there may be an uprising, but never a RIOT.

[Agnosticsherbet]

41. Very, very good. n/t

[UserNSAv32]

42. No but expect to see another wanna be cop murder someone in cold blood so they can walk and be a

hero to those who worship guns and those who enjoy shooting minorities for sport.

[korak]

43. Nah. They will do some of that in post nr 38....

But mostly they will brag on Free Republic about buying more ammo. lament the fall of the republic, and dream of SHTF and CWII.

[RedCappedBandit]

45. My question is whether the media reports rioting equally between races

It would be interesting to see if there has been a discrepancy between the MSM's definition of 'rioting' when it involves various races.

[Douglas Carpenter]

51. as Ghandi once said, "Violence is the language of the unheard."

Those that own and control the state apparatus rarely feel the need to riot. In spite of claims of victimization they know that they are the ones holding the reins of power and that the state apparatus and the police are there for them. No matter what they may claim - that is how it works and they know it and have always known it.

[Ian David]

52. They pretty much already do, just not in large groups. n/t

[UTUSN]

56. They will be ANNOYING ad finitum. Like we're not used to it. n/t

[Catherine Vincent]

57. ...

Will there be cameras at colleges in Florida? (like they did during the OJ acquittal).

[RandiFan1290]

60. You never know!

Here you will see a bunch of crazy white people rioting after their team lost a hockey game.

[lindysalsagal]

63. I believe it's called The Tea Party

and it's sponsored by multi-national corporations who want to garner huge profits in america while breaking all economic, labor, and ecological laws.

Their first rally is already planned: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/12/tea-party-republicans-flocking-to-appear-monday-at-white-nationalist-connected-march/

[flash47]

64. I have different plans

Since I am a gun wielding boy living in Central Florida I just plan to load up my standard capacity magazines when Zimmerman is acquitted. That is the only need I think I will have to protect my family.

[Zoeisright]

66. You mean like after Katrina

pictures of African-Americans were captioned as "looters" and pictures of white people were captioned as "finders"???

What a fucking racist OP.

[flvegan]

67. Either way, somehow it will get blamed on Obama. n/t

[Ohio Joe]

68. Gun nuts don't riot...

They go on murderous rampages and kill as many innocent people as they can.

[Ohio Joe]

74. Another law abiding gun nut...

They are always that way... Until they are not.

[bemildred]

69. We tend more in the direction of vigilantes, lynchings and burnings. nt

[premium]

71. NO.

That is all.

[d_r]

77. It does reflect a deep cultural bias

that people speculate that black folks would riot and that white folks would be law abiding citizens. The difference, I think, is power. We don't think of white folks "rioting" because they have the power. But there sure has been examples of mob mentality - from lynchings to now.








Like the Little Rock 9






U of AL desegregation




Ole miss riots a generation ago and not that long ago

[Agnosticsherbet]

80. Great, great post

thanks.

[OmahaBlueDog]

78. No, but "open carry" rallies will be on the horizon