George Zimmerman Trial Verdict Reached - Page 22

The truth always comes to the surface....

The real Story is always last to surface when Money talks and BS walks

YR

And what would that truth be, YR? 


 

I don't know Trayvon's mother personally. I won't judge what's in her heart or shove her under the bus because she MIGHT not be the real deal. In the past good has come as a result of grieving parents whose children were lost under tragic situations - Megan's Law, MADD, John Walsh's projects, etc.. Maybe some good will come from Trayvon's death too.  When I decide to make a donation to any cause, I base it on my interpretation of the merit of the cause, not one someone's youtube presentation.

I am not black and I will not sit in judgment of how blacks and other minorities feel when they are profiled. I had a brief glimpse of what it's like to be profiled whenever we'd get off the Harley and walk into a store, restaurant, etc wearing leathers and carrying our helmets. We were glared at and followed around by employees who thought we were going to shoplift I assume.







 

I had a brief glimpse of what it's like to be profiled whenever we'd get off the Harley and walk into a store, restaurant, etc wearing leathers and carrying our helmets. We were glared at and followed around by employees who thought we were going to shoplift I assume.

More of the stereotyping Bee touched on.  It can be fairly complex, IMO.  Stereotyping gets a bad wrap, but it seems to be a very real, very natural mechanism of survival.  There's nothing "wrong" with the "biker scene", of course.  People who participate make that choice knowing the connotations, that's their prerogative.  As an individual, I can be pointedly indifferent to the what people think of me, and by nature, do a lot less projecting, portraying, or playing any part than many.  In sociological terms, this dramaturgical  perspective is interwoven into the fabric of society.  Internally, I inhabit one end of the gamut, and somehow find the will to engage on those terms in order to be effective in certain areas.  I once questioned a sociology professor as to the Christian application (obviously, because of my orientation), because the whole things seems disingenuous.  She helped me to understand that, as opposed to being deceitful, we all bear a certain responsibility in what we say and do as to what we choose to communicate about our true selves to others, on the stage of interaction.   So when we talk about stereotypes, it seems we are dealing with the way we all process information, and some expectations without which, communication becomes impossible (One of the reasons animals lack complex communication).  It's all about balance and choices.  We all know the mores (or should anyway), and the extent to which we choose to be either understood or misunderstood, is largely a function of the temporal goal and values.  I would submit that there is an element (no, not everyone) within the "neo-biker", or "pseudo-biker gang" lifestyle (that desire for free-spirit, rebellion, and edginess), that is only realized in the presence of the very profiling you're talking about. 

Thanks for the morning laugh.

Moons, I was actually expecting you.

SMH..........

Same Bat time, same Bat channel.....LOL

Actually, it's all fairly rudimentary, and pointedly empirical.