RIM insists it is not exiting consumer market - just 'refocusing' RIM has reassured shop-wrecking hoodies everywhere that it is not in fact planning to exit the consumer market - after a comment during the BlackBerry-maker's earnings call was misconstrued. Pundits were widely anticipating the sharp exit of the Canadian firm from consumer smartphones, withdrawing from its fight against …
Unless you want the libtards and NAACP booking flights to march on El Reg HQ!
http://www.wcnc.com/news/local/Million-Hooded-March-in-Uptown-draws-Hundreds-145014965.html
I started to put a joke alert icon, but then I realized I'm less joking and more embarrassed at the levels of stupid among my countrymen.
Really? When did I do that?
In all honesty, the facts in this case are still coming out and (as usual) people have a penchant for overreacting. The fact that this is just one giant race card being slapped down on the table is also not helping anyone.
If the races had been reversed, this never would have made national news (let alone local news) and there certainly wouldn't be marches in the street.
Same-race homicides are an order of magnitude more common in this country, and black on white homicide is consistently higher than white on black (Zimmerman is hispanic, by the way). See the bottom chart:
http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/homicide/race.cfm
Where are all the marches for that stuff?
It's a sad state of affairs when some bastards are using this kids death as a means to further their own ends or to line their own pockets... (Jesse Jackson, I'm looking at YOU!)
I agree the race thing is just a huge distraction but the real issue is once again another red state law based purely in ideology has caused unintended consequences. There is a reason every major law enforcement organization in the country is against this retarded stand your ground law.
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