A group with somewhat shady origins — whose members fancy themselves the intellectual heirs to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and call themselves the “Dream Defenders” — is currently occupying the office of the Governor of Florida. They are protesting racial profiling and targeting, prompted by the acquittal of George Zimmerman, who they believe racially profiled and targeted Trayvon Martin — whose only mistake was being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
With their deep commitment to ensuring that people are never again profiled and targeted, and ultimately killed, based on their race, surely the Dream Defenders will next move on to the Atlanta area, to launch a protest against the four teenagers of the same race who recently ganged up on a middle-age man of a different race, drove him into a highway, beat him unconscious, and watched as he was run over by a car — whose only mistake was that he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
This happened to Joshua Chellew on June 30 in Cobb County, Georgia (near Marietta), less than 300 miles from where the Dream Defenders are currently protesting in Tallahassee. Will they take advantage of this opportunity to make clear that they stand on principle against racial profiling and targeting? Or will they pass on this opportunity and lead observers to conclude that they don’t care what happened to Chellew because of Chellew’s race?
To quote Dream Defenders ringleader Vanessa Baden (at 0:20 here) what they decide to do “will just speak volumes.” Jim Treacher put well the question currently faced by the Dream Defenders: “Why is Joshua Chellew less important than Trayvon Martin?”
Rush Limbaugh provided a good overview of the Joshua Chellew murder, and of why the liberal mass media do not care about Chellew, in his July 15 show. Below is a video of that segment, supplemented by photos of Chellew and of the gang members arrested in connection with his death, and excerpts from video reports by the local NBC station ( here ) and by the local Fox station (here and here).
You sound really ignorant posting crap about the Georgia murder without any real info about it. I’m not condoning murder but it wasn’t a murder until the “mysterious” driver that no one has mention ran the guy over late at night after supposedly leaving a club. Why wasn’t a field sobriety conducted on the driver? News reported this as a hit and run then turns around the next day and says the driver pulled over and called police after hitting the victim which sounds like bull to a person who studies law and knows there is more foul play in this case to keep those boys in jail for life over and assault that wouldn’t have took place if the victim didnt “allegedly” blurt racial and gang slurs at the young men. Not to mention that the man supposedly was under the influence and had a much younger black female passenger in his truck that he illegally drove to the store putting his life and the young ladies at risk but you want to talk about racism. Don’t even try and compare the Zimmerman trial to this because there was no racial profiling involved in this case unless you want to talk about the news media profiling these young men as gang member because they made up a name four their clique of 4 not hundreds not thousands just 4. The victim did more profiling shouting obscenities than the “young men” did retaliating. That was a grown ass man talking to young men which he had no business doing definitely if he is supposedly under the influence. This incident is supposedly happened by a store well where the hell is the video evidence because the retaliation certainly wasn’t premeditated if this guy initiated conversation. You want to talk about racist? Zimmerman gets off of murder only to be given celebrity status and compensation for the “pain” endured and you want to talk about racism? What a way to support murdering of a black child then to celebrities his murderer. You want to know where the “supposed” murderers in the Georgia case are? Still in jail. You want to know where the stalker and murderer of trayvon is? Walking the streets. You want to know where the guy who had left the club who actually ran a “whole” body over and didnt know because of possible intoxication? Sitting at home feeling like they have gotten away with murder. Don’t talk about racist when you in your mind share the same ideology as former slave owners and Jim Crow supporters. You are no more than a supremist and seperatist than the founders of the organizations. You should really stop writing articles like this and put your energy into more important things like our government and chem trail, HAARP system, genetically modified FDA approved foods, fluoride in the food and water, mercury in the immunizations, and other things that are killing off the “human” population and not just one guy whose bad decision to drink and drive lead to his death…