Let's talk about Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman, and how unbelievably fucked up this all is

if Florida starts to feel an economic squeeze, who is going to bear the brunt of it?

"starts to feel"

u know what I mean

i wish to make them feel the crushing weight of shame and opprobrium

just throwing this out there but the anti-SA boycott went on for 20+ years and was repeatedly circumvented by US and UK businesses.

fuckin paul simon

anyone willing to boycott florida doesn't appreciate the importance of slip-n-slide records to global culture, much less the continued necessity of miami bass to a functioning society

lol but also OTM

I think it'd be fun to organize a boycott of every state with a Stand Your Ground law. At least, I'd love to sit back and watch someone try it.

"Psst, Stevie Wonder, half the country has the same fucked up law ..."

it's easier to lop off Florida.

I mean, I guess Michigan is also loppable-offable, but where do you put it afterwards? The lakes aren't that big.

;_______________;

http://now.msn.com/awaken-cafe-puts-remarkable-sign-in-broken-window

http://blu.stb.s-msn.com/i/60/D1BB7531B7D94AC1C4BCCB44B91864_h316_w628_m5_cYSZJNwQm.jpg

wait ... do 1 in 25 white people really go to jail?

I know I should know by now but Jesus H Christ the comments. For real who are these people?

Substantial Disparities
Between Men and Women
And Among Racial Groups

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- If 1991 incarceration
rates were to remain constant, approximately one
out of every 20 United States residents (5.1
percent) would be confined in a state or federal
prison during his or her lifetime, according to
estimates made by the Justice Department's Bureau
of Justice Statistics (BJS).
Based on the report's assumptions, which do
not reflect the actual experience of any group of
residents, the lifetime chances of a person going
to prison are higher for men (9.0 percent) than
for women (1.1 percent) and higher for blacks
(16.2 percent) and Hispanics (9.4 percent) than
for whites (2.5 percent). An estimated 28.5
percent of black men, 16.0 percent of Hispanic men
and 4.4 percent of white men can be expected to
serve a state or federal prison term.

At every age, men have a higher likelihood of going
to prison than do women, and blacks and Hispanics
are more likely than whites.

The percent of men who will go to prison by
age is as follows:

Age White Men Black Men Hispanic Men

Birth 4.4% 28.5% 16.0%
20 4.1 25.3 14.8
25 3.0 17.3 11.1
30 2.1 10.8 8.6
35 1.5 6.5 6.8
40 1.1 3.6 4.3

xp

i don't know but apparently comments box racists outnumber comments box non-racists by 10 to 1

bureau of justice stats report xp

the type of people who comment on internet sites are the same people who stand in long-assed lines on free Slurpee day.

says the guy commenting on ILX

touche!

*slurp*

this doesn't really feel like the internet somehow

^^ honeymoon phase

i mean, someone did call me a "worthless human being" on here today. that felt like the internet.

in general though i love this place. i can just type my opinions about stuff and most of the time i'll get a thoughtful response.

fuck you

haha

jk

yeah but that dude is a douche treeship

yeah I guess I've just lost my sense of humor wrt this bullshit. enough is enough. where are the FEMA camps we were promised?

i mean, someone did call me a "worthless human being" on here today. that felt like the internet.

If that person got paid to call you that you should call mom. Otherwise, you're doing OK

true. that brings me to another point i have about ilx though: when am going to start getting paid?

just be grateful those donation drives only happen once a year!

there's an ILM joke around here somewhere ...

that no-face "in orbit" made at me upthread has been haunting me .... what did it even mean?

She is from MI

Lol I was thinking about c+p/re-posting that

oh. thank you. xp

makes me realize how senselessly i stumble through the world ... oblivious to those i might be harming ...

(maybe there's still a way to excise that part of MI containing the nuge though.....)

Lol I was thinking about c+p/re-posting that

― Drugs A. Money, Friday, July 19, 2013 5:01 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

misread this as 'crepeposting' and was amazed at the coinage

You can go ahead and credit me w that anyways

God I hadn't read the inevitable Nuge comments
Really hope that guy dies

He's coming to Cleveland next month, you want me to arrange something?

That Nugent thing is kind of surreal, although he's always been openly racist (despite his love for Howlin' Wolf), hasn't he?

Trayvon Martin viciously attacked him causing great bodily harm and threatening his life

Is the medical examiner a race-baiter too?

Also, has any of GZ's defenders commented on why shooting TM to death was necessary for him to be able to defend himself, as opposed to e.g. just showing TM his gun or firing a warning shot?

How skeptically did the prosecution examine Zimmerman's claim that Martin was "reaching for [Zimmerman's] gun?" How would Martin even have known that Zimmerman HAD a gun?

Huh, thought this thread would be bumped by now

posting this here just cause it took me a minute to find the full text,

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/07/obama-talks-about-trayvon-in-surprise-speech.html

well that's only going to fan the flames of white outrage