Willow ,'The Killer In Me'
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I'm not surprised. Appalled, but not surprised.
Frankly, the Stand Your Ground Law is bullshit. The fact of the matter is that even if Zimmerman started it (which frankly everyone seems to agree on). If at any point, he was in fear for his life, he was justified in using deadly force.
Vortex said what I meant but so much clearer.
In selfish news, we ate at a place called Lemonade. I only went because I thought there would be lemon meringue for Katie. There was none. Blargh. The concept of the place was a lot like Tender Greens (get a tray, pick your multiple salads/sides, there is meat or tossed salads if you want), but the food was all Full of Tastes. A green chile butternut squash salad with hominy and white corn, for example. Delicious, but no reason to get anything else with it.
Good, but too much going on and No lemon meringue.
The lack of remorse is the hardest part for me to understand. It is just so very upsetting and heartbreaking.
Very nice, Lee. I'm jealous.
The big problem is stand your ground and how the local cops so fucked everything up at the beginning. Well, no, the BIG problem is that being black makes you a suspect just by existing.
This.
Lee, that looks blissful. Good job!
So jealous of Lee!
I am so heartsick. Last shred of hope for society gone.
Lemonade is my favorite restaurant after Tender Greens! There's one in LAX now, in the Delta terminal. When I was in LA every week, I would go there every time. But I usually just got a few of the side dishes, not any of the stews or sandwiches.
I'm like Kat. I've been on a jury where we were all pretty confident some version of what was alleged went down, but it was so muddled. There was reasonable doubt, even if in our guts, we felt there had been an assault, no one gave us enough to be certain. We largely wanted to convict all of the court, including lawyers, of stupidity, but that wasn't one of our options.
I was also on a jury where we were pretty convinced what actually went down (two defendants on related charges--one was totally guilty, one was a seriously sketchy dude who probably hadn't actually done THAT particular thing). It was a hung jury (different directions on the two different defendants, but hung in both cases). THAT I would've bought, on the Zimmerman thing. Would've still sucked, would've meant he got off (if they chose not to redo) but...straight up not guilty? Lord. Also, as someone said, who's to say Trayvon wasn't standing his ground against the creepy old dude who was following him?? Who gets to stand their ground and who doesn't??
Who gets to stand their ground and who doesn't??
DUh, meara, whoever is more privileged!! Pecking order, people. So sucks to be down the pole.