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In reply to the discussion: Charles Barkley is confused. Recognizes there was racial profiling in Zimmerman case, [View all]DemocratSinceBirth
(101,856 posts)" I just feel bad because I dont like when race gets out in the media because I dont think the media has a pure heart, as I call it, Barkley said. There are very few people who have a pure heart when it comes to race. Racism is wrong in any shape [or] form there are a lot of black people who are racist, too. I think sometimes when people talk about race, they act like only white people are racist. There are a lot of black people who are racist. And I dont like when it gets out there in the media because I dont think the media has clean hands.
Well, yeah, folks of all color can be racist as I define it which is simply hating folks because they belong to a different race than you. However what does have to do with the facts of this case ? Do I think George Zimmerman is some latter day Joseph Paul Franklin? No.
I do think Zimmerman sees the world through a racial prism and saw some unarmed black kid he deemed as scary, recklessly followed him, then got in an altercation that resulted in the kid's death.