“(CNN) -- The national conversation over Trayvon Martin's killing is loud and intense. In some places, it's also vile and violent.
The case -- in which a Hispanic neighborhood watch volunteer killed the unarmed black teen in Sanford, Florida, on February 26 -- has sparked a national controversy. It has also stoked extremist views, particularly on the Internet, experts say.
George Zimmerman said he shot Martin in self-defense after the teen attacked him. Martin's family has disputed that.
Investigators have not charged Zimmerman.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, the civil rights group that fights bigotry, said the case has stirred up "extremists on both sides of the racial divide."
A visitor to the website of one white supremacist group, for example, left a comment calling Martin "a punk negroe who messed with the wrong guy."
Meanwhile, the New Black Panther Party has offered a $10,000 reward for anyone who "captures" Zimmerman, an offer that Martin's family has condemned…”
There are events that happen that cause an increase in racism. The Rodney King event was one of them. The OJ trial was one of them. The Trayvon Martin death is another one.
Just when we think that things are getting better in the United States something that will happen and extremists have something to use to try and create hate and drive a wedge between races. (In Iraq and other places they can use a bombing or something to create hate.)
Here the extremists have events created for them. Something will happen and then both sides jump in.
I think things are getting worst because of the Internet and all the message boards and comment sections and the news media.
The news media fan the flames when they try and get a story and be first with it and come up with some new point. The news media feels no responsibility for the rage they help create. If there is more rage then that gives them something more to report.
The anonymous internet comments are a major part of the problem. I do not think that we should even allow anonymous comments. Everyone that wants to comment should have to prove that they are who they say they are.
With the Trayvon Martin shooting you got a lot of white racist leaving comments pretending to be black. They will leave comments about killing white people or something that is going to make weak minded and stupid rednecks to come back and comment.
Everyone pretty much knows what buttons to push to fan the flames of the fire.
If you own a gun shop and you want to increase sales just log on and post a comment someplace saying you are black and you are going to kill white people. White people will run out to gun shops and buy every gun in the store. Everyone pretty much knows how to do shit like that.
I do not even think that CNN should have a comment section after a news story. If you read the comments they are always filled with hate. Or they could just not allow anyone to post a message until the message has been read and approved by CNN staff. Of course then they would have very few messages.
I think that someone should have some sort of way to punish the “news media” for their errors.
When there is a school shooting and students and teachers are hiding in a classroom and the news media reports on TV we just got word that students and teachers are hiding in such and such a class room there should be some sort of punishment that the network suffers to they do not do that again.
I am 100% sure that there is no “fucking coon” on the Zimmerman 911 tape. The FBI will have the ability, I bet, to tell is yes or no. I watched CNN playing with the tape and playing it over and over again. So now if the FBI comes out and say no that was not “fucking coon” on the tape you got millions of people that will never accept it.
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