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quinnox

(20,600 posts)
Mon Jul 15, 2013, 03:13 PM Jul 2013

I'm not black, but if I was, I wouldn't feel safe stepping into the state of Florida [View all]

today, or in the near future. Maybe some white guy, a self-styled vigilante type packing a gun, might see me walking late at night, coming back from a club, or a movie, or whatever, and walking through a neighborhood I supposedly "shouldn't be in", and confront me and treat me as a common burglar, maybe shooting me on sight even. And then who knows if the killer would be found innocent by a sympathetic Floridian jury, perhaps an all white jury at that. Just sayin'. That is the thought that comes to my mind anyway. Ah, Florida ---->

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