Mauaji ya Martin Trayvon...je haki ilitendeka?

[Kaunga]

The Parents - Sybrina Fulton & Tracy Martin

Tracy Martin, center, speaks at the Sanford City Commission meeting with Trayvon's mother, Sybrina Fulton, left, and the family lawyer, Benjamin Crump at the Sanford Civic Center in Sanford Fla., Monday, March 26, 2012. Martin, a black teen, was fatally shot by a neighborhood watch captain last month.

The Killer - George Zimmerman
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[Kaunga]

nimetumiwa hii na freind; an african americann lady, nimeona nishare na ninyi.

 

[Tango73]

By now, you probably know the shameful details, but they are worth repeating, in any event. On the evening of February 26, George Zimmerman, a self-appointed “neighborhood watch captain” in an Orlando suburb, shot and killed 17-year old Trayvon Martin. Because Martin was black. And no, don’t even think of rolling your eyes at the suggestion. That is what happened, just as surely as so many might well be loathe to admit it. Oh sure, he denies such a motivation, as does his family, but the details of the incident, now emerging from that evening leave very little question about it. This was not, as we too often hear in the wake of such incidents, “a tragedy.” This was not, as some would have it, “a terrible accident.” It was murder, plain and simple. And it would be called such by everyone in a nation that had any commitment to honest language, which, sadly, would pretty much rule out the one in which Martin’s life began and ended, and in which Zimmerman continues to operate as a free man, unarrested by the police. Trayvon Martin is dead because George Zimmerman believed his neighborhood needed and deserved to be protected from young black men, who could not possibly belong there, in his estimation. Never mind that Martin was in the community with his father, visiting friends. Never mind that Martin was armed only with Skittles and iced tea, while Zimmerman carried a loaded weapon. Zimmerman, who has a history of aggressive behavior (including assaulting an officer a few years ago), appears to have something of a Dirty Harry syndrome about him. He is someone described by his own neighbors as overzealous, motivated by an obsessive desire to guard the perimeter of his community and pose as a crime-fighting hero to those around him. It doesn’t take much imagination to size up Zimmerman psychologically. He’s like so many other utterly unaccomplished males who fantasize about being a badass law officer, meting out justice to the ne’er-do-wells. He’s the kind of person who, if he weren’t playing at policeman, would be one of those guys fabricating stories of his war heroism, buying fake military uniforms and medals on eBay and telling strangers in bars how he single-handedly held off insurgents in Kandahar or some such shit. He’s one of those guys. If you’ve met one, you’ve met them all: a wannabe somebody with a gun permit and a healthy dose of amped up, testosterone-fueled anxiety about outsiders; and so too, in his case, it appears (not only from this incident but also from dozens of previous 9-1-1 calls he’d made), a consistent fear about black men, whom he seemed to consider, almost by definition, as not belonging in his neighborhood. If Trayvon Martin had been, say, Todd Martin, a 17-year old white male, in the same neighborhood on the same evening, it wouldn’t have mattered that he was wearing a hoodie, looking at homes as he passed them by, or fiddling with his waistband. These, it should be noted, were the apparent indicators of criminality that Zimmerman felt compelled to share with the police during his 9-1-1 call, before opting to chase Martin himself, in brazen defiance of their explicit instruction to stay put. Had he been white, Martin’s humanity would have been clearly discernible to Zimmerman. But he was black, and male, and that alone inspired Zimmerman to conclude that there was “something wrong with this guy,” and that he appeared to be “on drugs,” a judgment Zimmerman felt qualified to render based on his extensive background in behavioral psychology, bested only by his prodigious law enforcement training, and by extensive and prodigious, in this case, I mean none whatsoever. Indeed, if you do not know that Martin’s race (and more to the point, Zimmerman’s racism) is central to the former’s death at the hands of the latter, it may well be that you are incapable of ever comprehending even the most obvious manifestations of this nation’s longstanding racial drama. Worse still, it may suggest that you are so bereft of empathy as to render you morally and emotionally dangerous to decent people. And by empathy here, I don’t mean merely the ability to feel for the family of this murdered child. I’m guessing most all can manage that much. Rather, I refer to the kind of empathy too rarely attainable, by whites in particular, in the case of black folks who insist, based on their entire life experience and the insight gained from that experience, that their rights to life and liberty are too often subject to the capricious whims of those with less melanin than they, and for reasons owing explicitly to the color of their skin. Empathy — real empathy, not the situational and utterly phony kind that most any of us can muster when social convention calls for it — requires that one be able to place oneself in the shoes of another, and to consider the world as they must consider it. It requires that we be able to suspend our own culturally-ingrained disbelief long enough to explore the possibility that perhaps the world doesn’t work as we would have it, but rather as others have long insisted it did. Empathy, which is always among the first casualties of racist thinking, mandates our acceptance of the possibility that maybe it isn’t those long targeted by oppression who are exaggerating the problem or making the proverbial mountain out of a molehill, but rather we who have underestimated the gravity of racial domination and subordination in this country, and reduced what are, in fact, Everest-sized peaks to ankle-high summits, and for our own purposes, rather than in the service of truth. And please, let us have no more ignoble and dissembling rationalizations for Trayvon Martin’s death and Zimmerman’s killing of him. If you are one, like those firmly ensconced in the pathetic Sanford, Florida police department, trying against all logic and human feeling to square this pernicious circle, just stop it. That there had been a half-dozen or so break-ins in Zimmerman’s community, ostensibly orchestrated by black males matters not a whit. Likewise, that there was a string of robberies in my New Orleans neighborhood during my senior year of college, which were the handiwork of white men, would not have justified my being stopped by police every time I returned home from a late afternoon class, to say nothing of being accosted by some community asshole with a Charles Bronson complex. But of course, such an analogy is silly isn’t it? We all know that whites are never subjected to this kind of generalized suspicion, even when we do, indeed, fit the description of one or another bad guy on the loose. We are not all looked at sideways when yet another white male serial killer is at large, or yet another abortion clinic bomber. We don’t face police roadblocks in lily-white communities so as to catch drunk drivers, even though the data is quite clear that whites represent a disproportionate number and percentage of those driving under the influence. As for Zimmerman’s claims of self-defense, that anyone could believe such a demonstrably transparent lie as this is stunning. Or rather it isn’t. It makes perfect sense in a nation where blackness and danger have long been considered synonymous, such that any black male over the age of perhaps 10 can “reasonably” be assumed a predator whose designs on decent people and their property are so concretized as to warrant virtually any measure invoked to monitor, control and incapacitate them. However much has changed in the U.S. since the 1960s, or for that matter the 1860s, make note of it that at least this much has not: black folks are still, in the eyes of far too many whites, a problem to be addressed, a riddle to be solved. And deprived of the old mechanisms of social control to which we were once so wedded — formal segregation, regular lynchings, forced sterilization, even enslavement — we have opted for the development of new forms: racial profiling, gated communities into which we shall police entry, zoning laws that limit who can live among us, and mass incarceration for non-violent drug offenses, among others. Under what rational interpretation of self-defense could Zimmerman’s actions qualify? Zimmerman chased Martin down. Zimmerman tackled Martin after Martin demanded to know why Zimmerman was following him. Martin screamed for help. And Zimmerman shot him. Even if Martin fought back, how could such a thing — a quite reasonable response, it should be noted, to being attacked by a total stranger — justify pulling a gun, pulling the trigger and shooting the person who was acting in self-defense against you? To those who accept Zimmerman’s claim of self-defense, let us ask a simple question: would you be so willing to buy that argument if a black person were to chase down a white person in a mostly black neighborhood, and then upon catching him, end his life when the white person resisted being pummeled? You know full well the answer. We all do. If I chase you and jump you, and you resist my assault, and in response to your resistance I kill you, I am the bad guy. Period. End of story. No exceptions, no prevarications, no ifs ands or buts. It’s me. Trayvon Martin is the innocent one here. He is the one who was acting in self-defense, when he resisted the assault of a total stranger, whose purposes for chasing him and accosting him made him rightfully afraid. After all, “neighborhood watch captains,” whether duly elected as such or just in their own heads (as seems to have been the case with Zimmerman), don’t wear official law enforcement uniforms, which might help identify them to the persons they may find themselves pursuing. And ya’ know why? Because despite their fervent and pre-adolescent desires to play cops and robbers like they used to do when they were eight years old, they are not cops. They are not even security guards. They are self-appointed enforcers with no authority whatsoever, save that which they have chosen to fabricate so as to make themselves feel more important. Oh, and when you abuse that ill-gotten authority and take the life of a young black man in the process, you don’t get to be taken seriously when you swear that your actions couldn’t have been racist because, after all, you’re Latino (this being the latest fanciful insistence of Zimmerman’s family). Dear merciful Lord, what is that supposed to prove? Racism is not about the identity of the person acting it out so much as those upon whom it is acted, and for what purpose. There were black slave owners in the South, after all, and what of it? American slavery was a racist institution because it subordinated people based on racial identity, and was predicated on the notion of black inhumanity and white supremacy. That there were some black people who bought into both sets of lies does not acquit the institution of the charge of racism, nor those among the African American community who participated in it. So too, that there are persons of color who are just as anti-black in their thinking as many whites, pathetic and heartbreaking though it may be, means nothing and truthfully, should surprise no one. It should be especially unsurprising that Zimmerman would have internalized racially-biased assumptions about black males, given the society in which he (and we) reside. And although this hardly lets him off the hook — one must be responsible for one’s own actions in any event, no matter the social contributors to those actions — it is worth noting a few things about the milieu in which this wannabe police officer was operating. In other words, Zimmerman’s culpability, while total and complete, is not solitary. After all, we are a society in which research has shown quite conclusively that local newscasts overrepresent blacks as criminals, relative to their actual share of total crime, and overrepresent whites as victims, relative to our share of victimization. A society in which other studies have shown that these racially-skewed newscasts have a direct relationship to widespread negative perceptions of black people. Indeed, a substantial percentage of anti-black racial hostility can be directly traced to media imagery, even after all other factors are considered. A society in which the disproportionate incarceration of black males — especially for non-violent drug offenses, which they are no more likely (and often even less likely) than whites to commit — feeds the perception that they are so treated because they are dangerous and must be kept at bay. A society in which criminality is so associated with blackness that whites literally and almost instantly connect the two things in survey after survey, and study after study, even though we are roughly 5 times as likely to be criminally victimized by another white person as by a black person. A society in which anti-black racism has been so long ingrained that not only most whites, but also most Latinos and Asian Americans, demonstrate substantial subconscious bias against African Americans in study after study of implicit racial hostility (and even about a third of blacks themselves demonstrate anti-black racism). George Zimmerman was very simply taught to fear black men by his society, and he learned his lessons well. And while he must be punished for his transgressions — and hopefully will be, now that the Justice Department is investigating and a Grand Jury is being convened — let there be no mistake, he cannot and should not take the fall alone for that which stems so directly from a larger social and cultural narrative to which he (and all of us) have been subjected. Black males are, for far too many in America, a racial Rorschach test, onto which we instantaneously graft our own perceptions and assumptions, virtually none of them good. Look, a black man on your street! Quick, what do you see? A criminal. Look, a black man on the corner! Quick, what do you see? A drug dealer. Look, a black man in a suit, in a corporate office! Quick, what do you see? An affirmative action case who probably got the job over a more qualified white man. And if you don’t believe that this is what we do — what you do — then ask yourself why 95 percent of whites, when asked to envision a drug user, admit to picturing a black person, even though blacks are only 13 percent of users, compared to about 70 percent who are white? Ask yourself why whites who are hooked up to brain scan monitors and then shown subliminal images of black men — too quickly for the conscious mind to even process what it saw — show a dramatic surge of activity in that part of the brain that reacts to fear and anxiety? Ask yourself why whites continue to believe that we are the most discriminated against group in America — and that folks of color are “taking our jobs” — even as we remain roughly half as likely to be out of work and a third as likely to be poor as those persons of color. Even when only comparing persons with college degrees, black unemployment is about double the white rate, Latino unemployment about 50 percent higher, and Asian American unemployment about a third higher than their white counterparts. George Zimmerman must be held accountable for his actions, and hopefully he will be. Innocent until proven guilty of course, there is a process for determining matters of formal legal responsibility, and may that process now move forward to a just conclusion. But beyond the matter of legal guilt or innocence, beyond that which can be addressed in a court of law — one way or the other — there is a bigger issue here, and it is one that cannot be resolved by a jury, be it Grand or otherwise, nor by judges or prosecutors. It is the none-too-minor matter of the monster we as a nation have created, not only apparently in the heart of George Zimmerman, but in the minds of millions: individuals far too quick to rationalize any injustice so long as the victim has a black face; persons for whom no act of racially-biased misconduct qualifies as racist; persons who have allowed their own fears, anxieties and occasionally even hatreds to numb them, to inure them to the pain and suffering of the so-called other. Yesterday, I received an e-mail from someone suggesting that perhaps we should begin to sport buttons like those that became so ubiquitous in the case of Troy Davis last year. You know the buttons, right? The ones that said: “I am Troy Davis.” The ones that aimed at solidarity with an unjustly executed man, but which, on the lapels and t-shirts of white people seemed, to me at least, more banal and offensive than anything else, since we were not, in fact (and would not likely ever be) in the position of Troy Davis. And while in this case too, I understand the sentiment and appreciate the real compassion underlying the suggestion — or the no-doubt-soon-to-be-witnessed insertion of Trayvon Martin’s name in many a Facebook profile handle — I feel that perhaps we who are white should remind ourselves, before we jump on either bandwagon, that unfortunately, we are much less like Trayvon Martin and much more like George Zimmerman. And that is the problem. For sources pertinent to the various data and study claims made in this piece, please see Tim Wise’s 2010 book, Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity. To join the call for a serious Justice Department investigation into the killing of Trayvon Martin, please sign this petition at ColorOfChange.org

I have been living in america almost 15 yrs and never seen mistreatment of black people. America Is the only place in the world where a black people shine like a morning stars! 99% of black over here are living the first class life than elsewhere in the world , yet you wanna bring up misinfomatioon about black american lifestle. You need to grow up sometime, enh boy! You had better talk about women mistreatment in Saud Arabia and Iran than wishing for tanzanians to hate americans P Po.

women in Saud Arabia never drive a car nor sit at a fron sit! women in Iran do not allowed to watch a soccer match neither participate in olyimpic game! That is the drama wi supposed to address worldwide, get me you jaives turkey!shame on you!

 

[Tango73]

kusoma article yako ina bidi mtu kwanza uvute bangi halafu utumie valium na mwisho uugue kichaa! Nigeria na Sudan, kuna ubaguzi wa dini na Rangi kuliko america, leo unataka watu wakuelewe vipi wewe? nenda Nigeria sehemu iitwayo Kano au abuja ukaone ubaguzi wa dini. Nenda sudan ukasikie kule north kulivyo na ubaguzi wa dini, mbona husemi hayo unasingizia eti marekani kuna ubaguzi wa rangi wakati huyo mtu umteteaye alikuwa kibaka mkuu!

 

[Kaunga]

I have been living in america almost 15 yrs and never seen mistreatment of black people. America Is the only place in the world where a black people shine like a morning stars! 99% of black over here are living the first class life than elsewhere in the world , yet you wanna bring up misinfomatioon about black american lifestle. You need to grow up sometime, enh boy! You had better talk about women mistreatment in Saud Arabia and Iran than wishing for tanzanians to hate americans P Po.

women in Saud Arabia never drive a car nor sit at a fron sit! women in Iran do not allowed to watch a soccer match neither participate in olyimpic game! That is the drama wi supposed to address worldwide, get me you jaives turkey!shame on you!

Sijaishi Marekani, just visited the Country a couple of times.
Ila kwa kusoma tu, ninajua ubaguzi bado upo; at least to some states Washington State included; na kwa makala hii ya Tim wise (ambaye ni mzungu/mweupe) pamoja na makala zake nyingi, na shuhuda za rafiki zangu wanaishi kule ambao ni pamoja na african american, wabeba maboksi na wazungu bado ubaguzi upo. Critics na matusi anayopata Obama, bado inanionesha ubaguzi upo. Nikiwa New York some years back, nilishatukanwa na mwandishi wa habari (alikuwa ananienterview na akaniuliza swali la kijinga; "kuwa kitendo cha blacks kuwa na big behinds ni kiashiria kuwa hatujaevolve kama wao na kwamba wao wakiwa na mawowowo ni obesity na si maumbile). So nina ushahidi wa kutosha tu juu ya uwepo wa ubaguzi wa rangi USA

Siwachukii wamarekani, ila nawachukia wabaguzi wa rangi.

Nb
Mimi si mkaka

 

[Kaunga]

kusoma article yako ina bidi mtu kwanza uvute bangi halafu utumie valium na mwisho uugue kichaa! Nigeria na Sudan, kuna ubaguzi wa dini na Rangi kuliko america, leo unataka watu wakuelewe vipi wewe? nenda Nigeria sehemu iitwayo Kano au abuja ukaone ubaguzi wa dini. Nenda sudan ukasikie kule north kulivyo na ubaguzi wa dini, mbona husemi hayo unasingizia eti marekani kuna ubaguzi wa rangi wakati huyo mtu umteteaye alikuwa kibaka mkuu!

Hii ni comment ya Tim Wise juu ya 'post-racial' era ya USA
By Tim Wise, Special to CNN
(CNN) – Being asked to describe what “post-racial” means is a bit like being asked to describe a leprechaun, cold fusion or unicorns: we know what is meant, but, if we are willing to be honest, we also know that none of the four describe something real, something tangible, something true.
To me, “post-racial” is little more than a nonsense term devised by people (mostly white, frankly), who would simply rather not deal with the ever-present reality of racism and ongoing racial discrimination.
It is a diversion, intended to paper over the divisions that have long roiled our nation, and continue to do so today.

Though some sincerely believe this describes America’s reality– especially since a man of color was elected president – the illogic of believing this signals the veritable death of racism should be apparent: after all, we certainly wouldn’t claim that sexism and patriarchy had been smashed in Pakistan, India, Great Britain, Israel or the Philippines just because they all have elected women as heads of state.
Perceptions of discrimination a black and white story
To believe that the United States is post-racial requires an almost incomprehensible inability or unwillingness to stare truth in the face.
How can we be post-racial, after all, when the typical white family has 20 times the net worth of the typical black family, and 18 times that of the typical Latino family?
How can we be post-racial when studies find that even white men with criminal records are more likely to be called back for job interviews than black men without them, even when all other credentials and personal characteristics are indistinguishable?
How can we be post-racial when evidence suggests that the lightest-skinned immigrants earn roughly 17% more than the darkest-skinned immigrants, even when qualifications and levels of productivity are the same?
How can we be post-racial when Asian Americans, Latinos and blacks with college degrees are anywhere from one-third more likely to nearly twice as likely to be unemployed as their white counterparts? When schools serving mostly students of color are more than ten times as likely to be places of concentrated poverty, and far more likely to have the least experienced teachers?
How can we be post-racial when people of color continue to be so disproportionately targeted by our nation’s drug laws?
Although whites use drugs just as often as blacks (and more often than Latinos), it is people of color who comprise nearly 90% of persons incarcerated for a drug possession offense. And it is people of color who are disproportionately stopped and searched for drugs and other illegal contraband, even though they are no more likely (and sometimes less likely) to be in possession of such items than whites are.
How can we be post-racial, when presidential candidates are either too afraid to raise these issues publicly, for fear of voter backlash (as with the Democratic incumbent), or willing to shamelessly exploit racial anxieties and resentments (as with at least one of the primary Republican challengers) by calling President Obama the “food stamp” president, or suggesting that poor black kids have “no habits of work” and should be made to clean their own schools as janitors?
This, despite the fact that most people in poor communities do work, and black teenage unemployment rates (now well over 40 percent) reflect only those black teens who are searching for jobs, and thus, by definition already have a solid work ethic, lacking only the opportunities to put that ethic into practice.
Sadly, the claims of America’s equanimity and post-raciality are not really new.
Even in the early 1960s, before the passage of civil rights legislation, at a time when we were still a formal apartheid state, polls found that a vast majority percent of whites already believed that blacks had just as good a chance to obtain a good job, housing or a good education as we or our children did.
In other words, white denial - one might say, delusion - on the matter of the nation’s racial reality has been longstanding.
It’s hard to say when or if we will actually arrive at that place called “post-racial”, or, better yet, post-racism.
But until whites begin naming streets in our neighborhoods after Martin Luther King, and naming the schools that our children attend after him (rather than fearing that such a designation might signify that our kids attend a “ghetto school”), I know for certain we are not “post-racial” yet.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Tim Wise.

 

[Nyani Ngabu]

Hivi kwa nini huwaga hakuna outrage dhidi ya black on black crime?

 

[Tango73]

Hii ni comment ya Tim Wise juu ya 'post-racial' era ya USA
By Tim Wise, Special to CNN
(CNN) – Being asked to describe what “post-racial” means is a bit like being asked to describe a leprechaun, cold fusion or unicorns: we know what is meant, but, if we are willing to be honest, we also know that none of the four describe something real, something tangible, something true.
To me, “post-racial” is little more than a nonsense term devised by people (mostly white, frankly), who would simply rather not deal with the ever-present reality of racism and ongoing racial discrimination.
It is a diversion, intended to paper over the divisions that have long roiled our nation, and continue to do so today.

Though some sincerely believe this describes America’s reality– especially since a man of color was elected president – the illogic of believing this signals the veritable death of racism should be apparent: after all, we certainly wouldn’t claim that sexism and patriarchy had been smashed in Pakistan, India, Great Britain, Israel or the Philippines just because they all have elected women as heads of state.
Perceptions of discrimination a black and white story
To believe that the United States is post-racial requires an almost incomprehensible inability or unwillingness to stare truth in the face.
How can we be post-racial, after all, when the typical white family has 20 times the net worth of the typical black family, and 18 times that of the typical Latino family?
How can we be post-racial when studies find that even white men with criminal records are more likely to be called back for job interviews than black men without them, even when all other credentials and personal characteristics are indistinguishable?
How can we be post-racial when evidence suggests that the lightest-skinned immigrants earn roughly 17% more than the darkest-skinned immigrants, even when qualifications and levels of productivity are the same?
How can we be post-racial when Asian Americans, Latinos and blacks with college degrees are anywhere from one-third more likely to nearly twice as likely to be unemployed as their white counterparts? When schools serving mostly students of color are more than ten times as likely to be places of concentrated poverty, and far more likely to have the least experienced teachers?
How can we be post-racial when people of color continue to be so disproportionately targeted by our nation’s drug laws?
Although whites use drugs just as often as blacks (and more often than Latinos), it is people of color who comprise nearly 90% of persons incarcerated for a drug possession offense. And it is people of color who are disproportionately stopped and searched for drugs and other illegal contraband, even though they are no more likely (and sometimes less likely) to be in possession of such items than whites are.
How can we be post-racial, when presidential candidates are either too afraid to raise these issues publicly, for fear of voter backlash (as with the Democratic incumbent), or willing to shamelessly exploit racial anxieties and resentments (as with at least one of the primary Republican challengers) by calling President Obama the “food stamp” president, or suggesting that poor black kids have “no habits of work” and should be made to clean their own schools as janitors?
This, despite the fact that most people in poor communities do work, and black teenage unemployment rates (now well over 40 percent) reflect only those black teens who are searching for jobs, and thus, by definition already have a solid work ethic, lacking only the opportunities to put that ethic into practice.
Sadly, the claims of America’s equanimity and post-raciality are not really new.
Even in the early 1960s, before the passage of civil rights legislation, at a time when we were still a formal apartheid state, polls found that a vast majority percent of whites already believed that blacks had just as good a chance to obtain a good job, housing or a good education as we or our children did.
In other words, white denial - one might say, delusion - on the matter of the nation’s racial reality has been longstanding.
It’s hard to say when or if we will actually arrive at that place called “post-racial”, or, better yet, post-racism.
But until whites begin naming streets in our neighborhoods after Martin Luther King, and naming the schools that our children attend after him (rather than fearing that such a designation might signify that our kids attend a “ghetto school”), I know for certain we are not “post-racial” yet.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Tim Wise.

HUyu jamaa aliyetunga hii article ya kishenzi ni mzungu mweupe ambaye hutunga vitabu na kupeleka TV documentaries. namfahamu sana . yeye ili nakala zake azipate market anajifanya kubase kwenye ubaguzi wa rangi na kweli anauza sana maana watu wengi hununua ili kuona katukana vipi. Hilo swali ungeulizwa na mmarekani mweusi usingesema ubaguzi wa rangi kwa sababu ya wowowo za wanawake ila kwa sababu kakuuliza mzungu wewe unasema ubaguzi wa rangi. kua ndugu yangu na acha kuwachikia watu bure.

kwa kifupi ubaguzi wa rangi marekani hakuna kabisaaa ila maneno ya kukandiana yapo yapo kwa kila race. kule uarabuni kuna waafrica wengi sana lakini mbona hatuwaoni madarakani wala katika mabunge yao? hilo wewe halikukeli mpaka leo uanze kutunga habari za kipotoshotaji za kutaka wamarekani waonekane eti bado wabaguzi?

kuna ricle na Tv series ambazo zinaonesha Iraq ina waafrica weusi kama 10% na wanateswa sana na mpaka kubaguliwa kupewa viwanja vya kujenga wasijenge karibu na waarabu wewe hilo halikuumi?

nenda nigeria kano state kaombe kazi wakati jina lako unaitwa stephen, halafu uone kama utajibiwa, sasa wewe hilo hulioni kama ni tendo baya mpaka leo unawaingilia wamarekani waonekane wabaya ktk jamii ?

kuhusu obama kukandiwa ni haki ya kila mtu kumcritisise raisi, hata wamrekani weusi nao humpinga baadhi ya sera zake. kuna jamaa anaitwa mike moore yeyey mpaka alitunga movie ya kusimulia maudhi ya George bush lakini hilo halikuwa baya kwako kwa sababu ya mzungu kwa mzungu. Ila angetunga move ile kwa obama ingekuwa issue kwako! Kua zee hununui hasira zangu hata kidogo.

kuna mzee hapo bongo kmlazimisha mwane wa kike kumfukuza kijana wake mpenzi asisishi nae hapo hapo washington Dc kwa sababu huyo kijan kwao bongo ni jua la utosi na baba yake ni massenger. ubaguzi upo huko huko bongo kuliko marekani.

 

[jebs2002]

Hapa bongo tu tuna ubaguzi wa hali ya juu, kwani hujui kwani ndoa kati ya wahindi na watanzania weusi ni chache mno, ikiwezekana za kuhesabu? Kwani hujui hapa bongo mbohora hawezi kumuoa hindu na vice versa, au ismailia kuoa hindu na vice versa? wakristo tu kuoa waislamu au vice versa inakua issue.
Pia wale wakina marealle, kida, bomani, kahama, mgaya, n.k. kwani hujui hawaruhusiwi kuoa walalahoi?!
Kweli binadamu tukiamua kufumba macho na masikio huwa tunafumba!

 

[AshaDii]

One thing is for sure... Racism will end at the end of the existence of this world. When you look at the Pic of the 17 year old, he looks so young and innocent whereas as Zimmerman certainly a thug and yet he had the audacity to have pull the trigger.... Imagine that has happened in the US the only country in the world to be believed as the Land of freedom and all be it African American or a white person are equally free...

The writer thou is a bit biased... At least that is my IMO.

 

[Kaunga]

Hivi kwa nini huwaga hakuna outrage dhidi ya black on black crime?

Sijaelewa! Outrage dhidi ya blacks?
N what is a black crime au wamaanisha crimes zifsnywazo na black?

 

[Kaunga]

@Tango73
I understand u as l understand African American! Nikuulize swali? During ur 15yrs of stay in US, were you close to African American? Au ulikuwa scared na ukawa karibu na weupe tu! Hii ni kwa wabeba mabox wengi ninaowafahamu.

1st time nimeenda US, nikiwa natembezwa na host wangu mzaliwa wa Manhattan kwenye viunga vya NYC; nilienda almost sehemu zote kasoro Harlem baada ya kusimuliwa story za kutisha juu ya uhalifu wa blacks! I was scared; ni siku hizi nimeanza kuamua kujaribu kuwaelewa (epathy) kwa kusoma makala zao, kuchat nao na kuwatch movies zao.

Ni rahisi kuwaignore kuliko kuwaelewa ndicho wazungu wengi (wasio 'wabaguzi') pamoja na waafrika waliopata favor kutoka kwa weupe wanafanya! N do u know why they hate blacks from Africa? Coz wanaona mmechukua nafasi zao (vyuoni na kwenye ajira) so the country in record ya how many blacks wako vyuoni bora wawe 'yes men' from Africa ambao kwao it has been a huge favor kuliko kuwa na aggresive African American ambao wanai treat hiyo as their right na so favor!

 

[Gaijin]

Outrage kwenye kesi hii tajwa ni chimbuko lake kuwa 'labda' kuna elements za kibaguzi.

Blacks on blacks crimes ni crimes zenye chimbuko jengine ambalo halijawakirihisha watu kama ubaguzi

 

[Kaunga]

@AshaDii
Ofcourse ubaguzi of some sense uko kila siku; but kwa nchi Kama US ambayo wengi hu-look up to (of course ni baada ya kujifanya kiranja wa dunia) inashock. Wengi huamua kuignore tu na kujoin the song kuwa being black means being a thug, doing drugs n involved in crime.

N to some extent, govt inafacilitate. I remember nilisoma sehemu in one of the states ambazo kuna blacks wengi; kila street haikosi 5 shops za kuuza silaha (pistols n the like).

Everyone akiwa oppressed kwa muda mrefu; mwisho wa siku ataend up being a bitterman!

 

[Nyani Ngabu]

When you look at the Pic of the 17 year old, he looks so young and innocent whereas as Zimmerman certainly a thug and yet he had the audacity to have pull the trigger....

Haya ndiyo madhara ya taswira zinazojengwa na media. Kwa kipindi kirefu media outlets zilikuwa zinaonyesha picha ambazo zinamfanya Trayvone aonekane 'innocent' halafu picha ya Zimmerman ilikuwa ile ya mugshot ambayo haimfanyi aonekane ni mtu mzuri.

Sasa kuna picha zingine ambazo zimetoka na zinamuonyesha Trayvone kama ki-thug flani hivi...na pia kuna picha za Zimmerman (akiwa amevaa suti) ambazo zinamuonyesha kama mtu wa kawaida kabisa.

 

[chitambikwa]

Mie ni mvivu wa kusoma kwa leo

 

[Anheuser]

Blacks on blacks crimes ni crimes zenye chimbuko

Ni "black on black crime" sio "blacks on blacks crimes" na wewe!

 

[Gaijin]

Ni "black on black crime" sio "blacks on blacks crimes" na wewe!

Yessir!

 

[m_kishuri]

Haya ndiyo madhara ya taswira zinazojengwa na media. Kwa kipindi kirefu media outlets zilikuwa zinaonyesha picha ambazo zinamfanya Trayvone aonekane 'innocent' halafu picha ya Zimmerman ilikuwa ile ya mugshot ambayo haimfanyi aonekane ni mtu mzuri.

Sasa kuna picha zingine ambazo zimetoka na zinamuonyesha Trayvone kama ki-thug flani hivi...na pia kuna picha za Zimmerman (akiwa amevaa suti) ambazo zinamuonyesha kama mtu wa kawaida kabisa.

Its true NN! Black Ammerricans should value themselves first in order to demand respect. Lakini ukweli unabaki palepale kwamba, the 17yrs old young blackman is dead, and Mr. Zimmerman was not arrested. The kid didn't deserve to die like that, black or white.

 

[Namtih58]

A humble request, tafadhali, tunapo nukuu jamani tusinukuu post yote, It makes the conversation hard to follow not to mention the wasted space. Naomba chagua visehemu ambavo vina husika na unachokisema.

Ahsanteni.