1) double standard how?
There's virtually nothing similar between the two cases. How the 2007 atrocity is supposed to illuminate the Zimmerman/Martin shooting is beyond me.
Okay, I’ll take a swing at it.
After hearing the un-edited 911 tapes, it doesn’t appear the Martin case was a hate crime, nor even racially motivated. Yet the media, the usual racist attention whores, and the president have all weighed in on this and tried to turn it into a hate crime or at least racially-motivated.
Reading what was done to the two white victims in 2007 was not the result of sick perversion, it’s a very very clear indication of a deep-seated hatred. Where are the hate crime charges? Where’s the outcry about bias or prosecutorial incompetence in over-turning the original convictions due to a judge with a substance abuse problem?
The setting and manner of the two incidents are quite different, yes. However, I don’t see the 2007 case as ever being treated as a hate crime when there is no doubt it was pure evil and hatred behind what those victims endured. I don’t recall Jack$on or $harpton taking the time to address this hate crime and call for a march to action against interracial violence. I don’t recall the New Black Panthers ever issuing a bounty on these low lifes.
I see it as a double-standard as I’m quite certain had this been a gang of white men who did this to a young black couple, it would have been treated far different by the media and those who believe that racism and racist acts only exist in the minds of white people. You can be sure we would have heard of the case had the circumstances been different. The case would have been sensationalized as the perfect example of a hate crime.
There’s your double-standard.