The Trevon Martin Case, the Internet, and President Obama, Discussed in Front of

I just took a walk to get some fresh air and exercise.

As I was walking back to the house a neighbor saw me and wanted to talk on the street in front of my house. He had also been out walking around.

We had conversed before about politics and other matters, and the Internet. We have exchanged some email messages with me inviting him to see some of my Facebook posts. He started this conversation saying he was not a Facebook person, that while he had nothing to hide, he did not want his personal stuff out there, that you never have any idea how someone might be spying on you with this sort of thing.

I told him I understood, that I have 1,951 Facebook friends and no idea how what I write is being used, that I knew there was some risk to this sort of thing, but I also had 1,951 Facebook friends who reported facts on Facebook, providing me a pretty good database for what people were up to, more trustworthy probably than mainstream media reporters owned and controlled by corporations and the elite rich.

He said, And those friends have friends and so on.

I told him if you want to change the world for the better you need to communicate with as many people as possible.

He then brought up the Trevon Martin case. He wanted to know what I thought.

I told him I thought Zimmerman probably should have gotten a manslaughter charge with a prison sentence with parole options.

He said, Or maybe a manslaughter charge with no prison time.

I said, well ok.

Then he told me how you can’t trust Obama, that anyone who paid $1 million to hide the fact he was not born in the US cannot be trusted.

I said how do you know that?

He said, I just know.

I said I have heard that sort of thing for years but I have never seen a shred of evidence it is true. I told him he was the first person I had heard say Obama had paid $1 million to keep his birth certificate secret.

He had no verbal response. He threw up his hands in exasperation, as if there were no reason to talk with someone as ignorant and unreasonable as I, and walked off.

As he walked off, I said, if it’s true, goddammit, prove it. He slowed down as if to look around, but he kept on walking down the street.

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Richard John Stapleton is an emeritus professor of business policy, ethics and entrepreneurship who writes on business and politics at www.effectivelearning.net and on Facebook.

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