Disrespect is Not a Reason to Die, or Divide a Country w/There Must Be More To Life Than This - Michael Jackson & Freddie Mercury

By Elizabeth Nelson

In the face of Trayvon and Zimmerman and Michael Dunn and Jordan Davis, which I might add, race was found to be a non-issue in both cases, but was only a case in the media, social and television, which further makes my point.
The Twitterverse Agrees:

why race matters: had passengers looked like this, phantom gun defense all but laughed out of court #dunntrial pic.twitter.com/wtykZokJXK
— trigmund freud (@trigmundfreud) September 30, 2014

Does it matter that forensic evidence came out during THIS trial that Davis was actually outside of the vehicle? NO, the "disrespected" teenager is still dead, and we weren't there.

Boom. Michael Knox just admitted that #JordanDavis' body had to be in the vehicle for the trajectory to match. #DunnTrial
— Robert Mitchell (@RLM_3) September 29, 2014

I would wash my adult's son's ears out with soap and hot water, if he played this QUIETLY in his car let alone played this loud enough to rattle a grown man's mirror. (warning, the F'Bombs that are dropped in "Lil Reese - Beef" rap song, that Davis was listening to would decimate ISIS and send them crying home to their mama):

#DunnTrial - Song Played In #JordanDavis Shooting Revealed "Lil Reese - Beef" | Song ...: http://t.co/bNIQDIhghY via @YouTube
— Wild About Trials (@WildAboutTrials) September 26, 2014

You know we have a problem with unchecked violence against black males when we are surprised when justice is served #DunnVerdict
— Ron Harris (@RonHarrisMN) October 1, 2014

#liberalJustice  If at first you don't get the "justice" you seek, try, try again.  However, when the shoe is on the other foot, or a black kid shoots a white kid, or a bunch of blacks start hitting whites in Florida for shi*s and giggles - God forbid we Stand-our-Ground or use Self-Defense. No, we "crackers" are racist for wanting equal "justice?"

But wait, now you're shocked that the DOJ just released their final report on Zimmerman and due to insufficient evidence [sic - Zimmerman isn't a racist], they WON'T be filing a Civil Rights case against him? No shock there, they testified in court that the shooting had "nothing to do with race," but you wouldn't hear it. Did you think this case was going to set the precedent for Try Try Again? #CryMeAriver When people get their DAY in Court, like OJ and Casey Anthony, when the judge says, "So say you one so say you all..." JUSTICE IS SERVED, whether we like what's on the plate or not.  This isn't an episode of Law and Order, Suits, or Franklin and Bash.

One day after #DunnTrial verdict, did the DOJ @CivilRights just give us a reality check? http://t.co/Vnb26gG5ck UNREAL! #justicefortrayvon
— Kuala C. Chambers (@kcarr78) October 2, 2014

Sadly, this is where our human nature gets in the way and where our kids learn from our "Do as I say, not as I do". Our children, whom we've taught - as we were taught - to "love all" have gone on to do as we taught them, to accept without conditions. However, it doesn't seem to take much for us to revert to what we once were, our selfish, prideful nature.

Teens do learn by the example they see lived out at home, that "being disrespected" is equivalent to a "threat," therefore they meet any disrespect with, in their eyes, appropriate retaliatory violence, and they "won't be disrespected."  Trayvon's, "do you have a problem, well you do now," met with a punch to the fist and a bashing to the head, instead of going home, leading to his death instead of his continued life.  

Davis' not wanting to be disrespected, in front of his bros and not acquiescing to a request of "not hurting another human's ears," when there are Noise Ordinances and Disturbing the Peace Laws in FL. Just like Trayvon, this could have been so easily avoided, but this generation will not be disrespected. Disrespect is not a reason to die, or divide a Country. We need to do better in retraining our youth, this angry generation.

Why can't we seem to understand and follow the principal that we conservatives are teaching our children, that we all have more in common than we differ, and if we can't be friends, then we can at least part civilly as adults, without racial epithets and insults, so that our next encounter will be a polite one? 

Slavery ended when the Constitution was ratified and the Congress passed the 13th Amendment, on January 31,1865. Yet, we always seem to make every issue a black, white thing, when slavery effected and enslaved more than the black race.

There is NO Black and White in a Rainbow, yet it's still a beautiful work of God - if we will ever look passed skin tone and ideology, maybe then we will embrace our individual differences and actually unite as one and get along?

Michael Jackson & Freddie Mercury agree with me, There Must Be More To Life Than This 

There is NO Black and White in a Rainbow, yet it's still a beautiful work of God - if we will ever look passed skin tone and ideology, maybe then we will embrace our individual differences and actually unite as one and get along?