Comments on: What if George Zimmerman Gets an All White Jury?

By: Jose

Jose — Tue, 01 May 2012 05:39:14 +0000

And yet, Zimmerman has an Afro-Peruvian grandfather, his “white” Father is not his biological Father, and he is a registered Democrat.

So it is difficult to understand why you race-baiters keep trying to call attention to a non-issue using faulty logic.

Understanding that logic is not your strength, you should know that the primary reasons Juries are mostly White is because Blacks do not show up to jury duty.

But excepting responsibility for the failings of so-called Black leadership, who should be concentrating on lowering the crime rate, improving test scores, and asking Blacks to show up to Jury duty (or work, or school for that matter) is a bit too much. Instead let’s ask for another handout.

Zimmerman’s neighborhood was plagued with theft and burglaries from Blacks, as you said only 11% of the population, but care to look up how much crime is committed by that 11%?

He’ll go free because he did not murder anybody.

By: DaTruth

DaTruth — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 21:01:53 +0000

I’m sure Zimmerman will get an all white and Cuban jury one way or another. ZImmerman will a free man soon.

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 03:35:05 +0000

I believe all this attention focused on Zimmerman is justified, but llet’s not forget the part the Sanford Police played in all of this? I think the Sanford Police should be somehow indited for their sloppy handeling of this case from the time the first officer came on the murder scene to the releasing of Zimmerman. Where they giving Zimmerman cover for a possible trial?

By: James Davis

James Davis — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 11:00:14 +0000

You Hit The Nail Right On The Head

The population make-up of Seminole County, Florida which is where the trial will be held, I guess, if another venue is not requested is 11.1% Black and 17.1% Hispanic. The county population is 422,718 according to the last census. The county is Republican, while the city of Sanford, where Trayvon Martin was killed is Democratic. White Republicans have been over the years extensively involved in Sanford politics where Blacks make-up 30% or 16,200 of the population of Sanford which is a city of 54,000 people. This is why there is such acrimony in the city. Blacks in 1983 won in federal court a ruling which required Sanford to elect its city commissioners based on districts, rather than electing them at large. Prior to the 1983 federal ruling, no Black person was on the city commission. As a matter of fact, Sanford’s current Mayor, I am relatively sure is Republican and two of its five commissioners maybe also. So the Republicans actually hold sway on that commission which of course is suppose to address city matters on a non-partisan basis. This is going to be a trial that is going to be racially charged. Surely the defense will attempt to draw jurors from the county, while I assume the prosecution will attempt to draw jurors from the city.