The black kid hung around too long.

[anomiep]

95. I don't know

This has the mark of blanket assignment of a particular attitude to a very large group of people.

I've been accused of being a 'zimmerman supporter'

I don't know what happened - I just don't like seeing things that are factually incorrect argued as fact, and sometimes I get a little zealous about it.

I don't think that anyone has the right to kill a black male just because they feel frightened of him, and I don't fear black people just because they are black - there have to be circumstances to justify a fear, and 'black' or 'white' is not sufficient. I've felt fear of both blacks and whites under certain circumstances - but it wasn't because of their skin color.

The reality is that there's only one living person who knows what actually happened in the portions of the timeline that there isn't any evidence for. There's another thread somewhere where someone notes that the only people who really have a call on this right now are the jury - they're going to see way more evidence than anyone else.

Right now I just hope that whatever they come back with, whatever decision they make, is in line with what actually happened - whether that's 'not guilty' or 'guilty'.

I think part of that divide you're talking about is caused by a willingness to apply blanket statements to people in the first place - and it's not something that either side of the divide is entirely innocent of. In fact, that tendency is actively used by both political parties to get people to support them. Not because the argument is true, or because the labeling is true, but because people have enough of a tendency towards that kind of argumentation - the demonizing of the 'other side' - that it *works*.

I say that as someone who gets accused of being a 'libtard' on conservative sites and a 'wing nut' on liberal sites. I figure that means I'm the middle that everyone wants to convince.