Pubdate: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 Source: San Francisco Chronicle (CA) Copyright: 2013 Hearst Communications Inc. Contact: http://www.sfgate.com/chronicle/submissions/#1 Website: http://www.sfgate.com/chronicle/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/388 Author: Ed Chainey LOOK TO THE SOURCES OF VIOLENCE Crocodile tears, racially-tinged sophistry and misplaced umbrage in The Chronicle letters on the Zimmerman verdict obligate me to disabuse some of their most unabashed misrepresentations. Despite some writers' presumptions, many of all the people protesting George Zimmerman's unjust exoneration also vehemently objected to O.J. Simpson's outrageous acquittal. That they're somehow selective racists is specious pandering. And only selectively blind and cold-hearted people could have missed the many times this white man has read of and seen the African American community and the likes of Al Sharpton get worked up about black-on-black crime. Thinking otherwise, by definition, is racism. I have joined many blacks and whites who have vociferously decried all concomitant violence precipitated by the failed war on drugs which has become a de facto tool of minority oppression upon black youths who all face employment and civil rights discrimination. Ed Chainey, Richmond - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom