Trayvon Williams tragedy(not)

[Ian Livingston]

Well, then there's the issue of hubris in contemporary terms. That
bears scrutiny, I think, as one of the essential elements in tragedy.
Does hubris apply here? If so, in what way? I think the whole thing
stinks to high heaven, like the recent killing spree in Afghanistan.
What are we seeing here, in these random killings?

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 10:07 AM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Exactly!
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> Laura
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> -----Original Message-----
>>From: Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net>
>>Sent: Mar 22, 2012 9:44 AM
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>>Subject: Re: Trayvon Williams tragedy(not)
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>>This whole thing doesn't sound like a tragedy to me. It looks from every part of the evidence to be an unprovoked racist child murder. This dickhead persuaded himself the Young man was threat to his neighborhood because he was black when in fact the boy was a part of the neighborhood and had gone to the store for some candy. The police had Trayvon's cell but did not notify the parents for over a day. They let the guy go as though shooting unarmed black kids were completely ok . As though self defense were a reasonable claim when they knew this guy was following the unarmed boy with a gun.
>>The guy's mindset is not what I call tragedy but misdirected xenophobic paranoid stupidity and violence the like of which is all too common in America and which is why a million Iraqis  and 5000 American soldiers are dead.
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-- 
"Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all
creeds the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the
trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments
of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates
than the simplest urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant