walking while black - Trayvon Martin

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IDK, user. Why didn't he say, "Hey, who are you?" and Trayvon say, "My family lives here." I don't know why the rest happened.

I DO know why people think young black men/boys (don't you dare call them that, they are only "boys" if the NAACP is involved) with hoodies walking around at night are dangerous. Instead of the black community crying police corruption, they should be crying about letting their fucking kids roam around committing crimes.

They caused this by years of shitty behavior. God forbid they take any part of the blame for how the rest of the country reacts to them.

Yesterday, I was trying to find (but couldn't) a link to an interview I caught on CNN. I thought it would make you happy. It was a black minister (I think he was a minister) saying that the focus on the case is all wrong and that the black community needs to focus their attention where it's needed--black on black violence and the criminal mentality among black youth.

I agree. I think the race issue is sort of an aside in this case (although if he was muttering "fucking coons" that does indicate it might have played a factor in Zimmerman's actions) but the Sharpton rhetoric and all that other stuff is just bullshit.

I don't know what happened in that confrontation between Zimmerman and Trayvon. If Zimmerman calmly asked him what he was doing and Trayvon just hauled off and punched him and started slamming his head in to the concrete, well that's one thing. But that's not how I picture it in my head at this point. Maybe something will come out that will change my mind.