Mark Greene asks why George Zimmerman’s new website designed to solicit donations, touts a photo of graffiti reading “Long Live Zimmerman” sprayed on a Black cultural center at OSU.
TheRealGeorgeZimmerman.com is a very difficult website to log on to. Apparently, since news broke about the site, so many people are attempting to view it that the server has crashed. The press and is reporting two things. It has been confirmed that this site belong’s to George Zimmerman and it has also been confirmed that Zimmerman has chosen to feature a photo of a vandalized black cultural center at Ohio State University. The center was spray painted with the words, “Long Live Zimmerman”.
This is the reason the site is getting so much traffic. Not because George Zimmerman is attempting to raise funds for his living and legal expenses. It is because Zimmerman has chosen to include an image that is racially loaded.
Loaded like a gun.
People are going by the hundreds of thousands to Zimmerman’s site to see if he’s really posted that particular image. And when they see it, they will make some very final decisions about Mr. Zimmerman very quickly.
My immediate question is why would Mr. Zimmerman do something this inflammatory? Especially if he is facing the possibility of a trail for murder? I can only arrive at one conclusion.
Mr. Zimmerman simply doesn’t understand the implications of posting this image. He lives among and speaks only with people who live in a certain kind of bubble. And in that bubble, “Long Live Zimmerman” spray painted on a Black cultural center is a good thing.
Welcome to the dark side of America.
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From the editors:
What do you think? Does Zimmerman understand the implications of posting this image?
What does this website, the fundraising, and the photo say about where our society is going?
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Unfortunately I think it says far more about where we actually are than where we’re going.
JFB
Unfortunately I think it says far more about where we actually are than where we’re going.
JFB
I believe that the election of Obama has inspired some racists to try to start a race war.
Were people less racist under Bush?
In a sense, I believe so. Their latent, subconscious racism wasn’t being triggered by an n-word in the White House. It might be acceptable to them if he were a Republican who knew his place, but Democrats are already immoral and inferior. Some of them can’t tolerate so subhuman a father figure.
Well, not to defend the guy (and to play devil’s advocate just a tiny bit) But I have to ask if he is aware of where the grafitti is? I mean, just looking at the picture, I wouldn’t have known it was the wall of a black culture center.
Incidentally, it might just be my terrible browser, but I went to the website and didn’t see the image. Maybe he wasn’t aware of the image’s origin or somebody smarter than him took it down.
Nevermind, it was my browser. the image is still up.
Seems its undergoing heavy traffic, can’t load that page no matter what I do. I can barely load the index. on the upside his web hosting fees are going to be pretty enormous.
Unfortunately, in the age of the internet, once someone has obtained some fame (or infamy), one can make money from the resultant notoriety. In the dark corners of the internet, one can find like minded people who worship serial killers and mass murderers, so why not Zimmerman?
I doubt he’s doing it for the cash, I’d say he’s genuinely pooling money for his defence fund, but that site is pretty shameful, especially after what he’s done.
I can hardly digest the fact that someone would put graffiti applauding the killer of a teenage boy, no matter what his reasons were…but for that killer to use this image on his website? I think you hit the nail on the head when you said people would make a decision about Zimmerman very fast.
I just can’t digest it.