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Become a star for shooting and killing a black teenager? Thats just what will happen if a celebrity boxing match is allowed to happen.When I read the headline that George Zimmermanthe guy who shot and killed Trayvon Martinwas going to fight rapper DMX in a celebrity boxing match, I assumed I was reading, The Onion. This had to be a joke, right?
But unfortunately its not. Celebrity boxing promoter and self described opportunist, Damon Feldman announced that Zimmerman and DMX had agreed to step into the ring together. As Feldman boasted, the match will be one of the Biggest Celebrity Boxing matches of all time.
This event is truly despicable. I cant even imagine the pain that the media reports of this boxing match must be causing the parents of Trayvon Martin. First, they lose their son. And now the man who killed him, will be starring in a TV special where hes considered a celebrity.
Lets be clear: this is far from the typical celebrity boxing match that Feldman has set up in the past which featured the likes of Tanya Harding, Jose Canseco and Michael Lohan. This match showcases a man who shot and killed someone. That is the sole reason we know the name George Zimmerman and why he is considered a celebrity.
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SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)you get celebrity status when you kill someone. Funny how his ilk who are always whining about the unemployed embrace him . Go get a job asshole
goldent
(1,582 posts)and has been for many years.
Skittles
(153,261 posts)except when he has to go up against a skinny, unarmed teenager - then he becomes a gun humping coward......and make no mistake, that gun humping coward considers any money made to be gravy for him
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Cha
(297,935 posts)come back to bite his murdering ass.. like nothing else.
sheshe2
(84,005 posts)They should be ashamed but they are not.
Thanks Don.
Baitball Blogger
(46,776 posts)The clan couldn't do a better job of creating a stealth society like the one that exists in my city. It's that two tiered system where the more you break the laws to advance the cause of a group of professionals in this community, the better off you'll be financially. Before you know it, you end up with 90/10 ratios where the dominant force has no incentive when it comes to protecting the interests of minorities.
And if I haven't said it enough, thank you State Attorney's office and the FBI Corruption department for doing shit all nothing about the abuse of power that goes on all the time around here.
Bjorn Against
(12,041 posts)Sadly it turns out that things have gotten even worse than that movie portrayed. Oliver Stone showed the killers in his movie getting the celebrity treatment, but they were also held accountable and sentenced to long prison terms. Not even Oliver Stone went so far as to suggest that a murderer would not only be treated as a celebrity, but he would also be let free and allowed to continue to legally carry a gun with him everywhere he goes.
boston bean
(36,224 posts)Damn him to hell.
alp227
(32,073 posts)pintobean
(18,101 posts)DebJ
(7,699 posts)hfojvt
(37,573 posts)agentS
(1,325 posts)Yeah... this ain't gonna end well for Zimmerman.
If he couldn't handle Trayvon without a gun...