Progressives have turned the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman incident into a racial incident. The truth of the matter is no way was thios even close to being racial. It was a about a Middle Class man who was doing aneighborhood patrol asking a thug class individual what he was doing in that area. This confrontation between Middle Class and Thug Class is occuring becasue many Middle Class areas have suffered due to the stagant economy we have had the last 13 years. Many Middle Class people live in boderline areas becasue that is where they can afford to live. With declining wages, they can’t save money to move to better areas. Instead, they rely on the police or themselves for protection.
The Zimmerman case is about many things, but it isn’t about George Zimmerman, an Hispanic Obama supporter who campaigned against police brutality only to find himself plucked up by the hand of Big Brother to play the villainous white racist in the latest episode of liberal political reality television.
Zimmerman is the latest Bernie Goetz; another wholly unlikely cult figure who currently campaigns for vegetarian lunches in public schools and squirrel rescue. It’s not that the two men had anything particularly in common. Unlike Goetz, it is very unlikely that Zimmerman jumped the gun, so to speak, but they both fill a similar niche. They represent the embattled lower half of the middle class.
To understand the Zimmerman case, you have to live in a neighborhood that has just enough property values to keep you paying the mortgage and just enough proximity to dangerous territories to make you feel like you’re living on the frontier.
But the case isn’t about race either. It’s about a struggling middle class in a precarious economy trying to hang on to what it has. And it’s about a culture of dropouts from the economy who celebrate thuggery and then pretend to be the victims. It’s doubtful that anyone in Zimmerman’s neighborhood who weathered multiple break-ins has much sympathy for the Martin family. And that’s one reason that the prosecution hasn’t found any useful witnesses.
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George Zimmerman wanted to to be a cop. Trayvon Martin wanted to be a hood. It’s quite possible that Martin got no closer to his ambition than Zimmerman got to his. Both men were just going through the motions on the edge of a game of cops-and-robbers that suddenly turned deadly real. And even in a country where the thug tops the entertainment heap, the vulnerable parts of the middle class have more sympathy for aspiring cops than for aspiring thugs.What are cops and thugs? Cops are the protectors of the middle class and thugs prey on the middle class. Not just any part of the middle class, but the vulnerable parts, the men and women without enough money and mobility to get out when neighborhoods turn bad. And then it all comes down to territory and who can intimidate whom. Either the cops intimidate the thugs or the thugs intimidate the cops.
The race issue is just a distraction from a even bigger issue facing Americans. The economy is no longer providing for upward mobility. The country is increasinly being divided between people who continue to work for the meager wages they can get and those who have given up hope and just live off the welfare state. The Zimmerman-Martin incident is a refelection of ouyr deteriating living standards.
Tags: George Zimmerman, Trayvon Martin
