George Zimmerman’s Father Says The ‘True Racists’ Are African-American
Source: Think Progress
As the murder trial for George Zimmerman begins, his father has released an emotional and highly unusual e-book, publicly opining on all aspects of the case. The book by Robert Zimmerman Sr., called “Florida v. Zimmerman: Uncovering the Malicious Prosecution of my Son, George” was released today on Amazon for $3.99.
The most striking chapter is called “Who Are The True Racists,” an apparent effort to rebut claims that his son’s actions were racially motivated.
Previously, Zimmerman Sr. “believed generally racism was a thing of the past.” He says that, personally, he hadn’t encountered much racism, even though his wife is Hispanic. But after his son shot and killed Trayvon Martin, however, Zimmerman learned that racism is “flourishing at the insistence of some in the African American Community.”
Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/media/2013/06/14/2162501/george-zimmermans-father-says-the-true-racists-are-all-african-american/
No wonder his son held beliefs bigoted enough to go after Trayvon.
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Interesting user name as well. 
even though we often disagree about who the underdog is. In any case, racists and homophobes get just about no sympathy here. I bet they do on Freerepublic though. Just keep in mind this is a partisan website and different rules apply. But we do have rules! Welcome to DU! It's the greatest. 
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
The wounds of slavery which could have been healed in the First Reconstruction, account for natural reactions. If we assume that Daddy Z believes racism ended with the Emancipation Proclaimation, we are insulting his intelligence, or ours.
History proves that the inherent rights of AAs were not made whole. I've thought for many years of that, imagining what our nation would be if this had been addressed then. The equal footing that the GOP claims we all have, is false:
40 acres and a mule refers to the short-lived policy, during the last stages of the American Civil War during 1865, of providing arable land to black Freedmen (former slaves) who had become free as a result of the advance of the Union armies into the territory previously controlled by the Confederacy, particularly after Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's "March to the Sea." General Sherman's Special Field Orders, No. 15,[1] issued on January 16, 1865, provided for the land, while some of its beneficiaries also received mules from the Army, for use in plowing.[2] Such plots were colloquially known as "Blackacres", which may have a basis for their origin in contract law.[clarification needed][citation needed]
The Special Field Orders issued by Sherman were never intended to represent an official policy of the United States government with regards to all former slaves and were issued "throughout the campaign to assure the harmony of action in the area of operations."[3] Sherman's orders specifically allocated "the islands from Charleston, south, the abandoned rice fields along the rivers for thirty miles back from the sea, and the country bordering the St. Johns River, Florida." Brigadier General Rufus Saxton, an abolitionist from Massachusetts, was appointed by Sherman to oversee the settling of the freed slaves.[4] By June 1865, about 10,000[citation needed] freed slaves were settled on 400,000 acres (160,000 ha) in Georgia and South Carolina.
After the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, his successor, Andrew Johnson, revoked Sherman's Orders and returned the land to its previous white owners. Because of this, the phrase "40 acres and a mule" has come to represent the failure of Reconstruction policies in restoring to African Americans the fruits of their labor.[5]
In testimony before Congress in 1871, “forty acres and a mule” was attributed[by whom?] to be a promise made to African Americans by President Abraham Lincoln before he was killed.[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/40_acres_and_a_mule
Land ownership is real power. From it spring prosperity and freedom to live as you choose, and not necessarily answer to others. This is the liberty that some speak of, and in that they are not wrong. They have a basis from which to make demands others cannot, by lack of stability or loss of time working to live.
The fall of Reconstruction was enforced by the night riders of the KKK. Followed by poll taxes, questionnaires, Jim Crow laws and the murders of Medgar Evers and MLK, and countless others.
Black disenfranchisement, segregation and economic discrimination didn't stop 150 years ago, or 50 years ago or at any time with Z, Sr.'s lifetime. Nixon and Lee Atwater's Southern Strategy has been steady part of the GOP political scene. And it doesn't just hurt blacks, either. A lot of the squalling from the newly disenfranchised don't ring a lot of bells with me because they didn't say anything when it is was the blacks going through the fire.
Daddy Z may have been hiding out in an undisclosed location and didn't see a thing. But anyone knows there are reactions to things, and a level of black racism would not be unexpected. But I've seen little of it in my lifetime, in fact have found most blacks to be supportive of human beings no matter what color they sport in this time we get in life.
Daddy Z needs to rethink history and so do a lot of other people. Treat people as you would have them treat you. If Z was afraid of property loss or his life, he and those who support him should take heed of what this wise man said:
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
~ Frederick Douglass
That's not endorsing racism or violence of any kind. And it applies to everyone, including white people, just so those who feel attacked will understand. It's a point of logic people abandoned to pretend they have nothing to do with the violence in this nation. So ignoring it will never work, there will never be peace as long as some suffer.
JMHO.
It's "not over yet" and might never be.. as long as people are too insecure in their own bodies, but, thanks to people like you who stand up for humanity over the centuries and decades.. we are getting better.
The Obamas have been excellent roles models for tolerance and civility. 
Well written. And filled with awesome sauce and REASON. You have an overwhelming need to make SENSE and it shows! 
Only overboard if you are the person who popped off nonsense. 
Even among the potential jurors laying blame at the parent's feet - right there in the courtroom where they sat only a few feet away! wtf?
I felt so bad for Trayvon's mom and dad.
(and right-wing "libertarians" .
Wrote for and was very good friends with Richard Pryor. Check out Negrodamus and Ask A Black Guy skits on Chappelle show reruns! 
He also published a book a few years ago Black Is The New White. Buy it - and laugh!
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What a racist nutjob. 
