Some thoughts on Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman. [View all]

[Blue_In_AK]

For anyone who thinks that there are no racial overtones to how this matter has been handled...

Imagine a white kid in a hoodie suddenly appearing alone in a mostly African-American neighborhood. An observant resident notices and wonders what the kid is doing here. Maybe he's come looking for drugs, certainly a possibility, so he decides to follow the kid and see what he's up to. The kid notices that he's being followed by a "menacing" black man, and feeling threatened, he pulls out the gun he's carried for protection in this neighborhood and shoots the man dead. Self-defense, right? Does anyone doubt that the boy would most likely be able to get off on a self-defense claim, especially in a state like Florida with their stand-your-ground law?

Suppose the black man had decided that he just didn't want these drug-addled white kids in his neighborhood, that they do nothing but cause trouble and encourage the drug dealers. He decides to take him out because these white kids "always get away with it," while the AA kids are going to prison. You know he would be charged with first-degree murder on the spot.


These scenarios may not be exactly comparable to what transpired with Trayvon, but it seems that in any confrontation between a black person and a white person, the black person is ALWAYS more suspect in the eyes of the law. It isn't right.