07-26-2013, 11:01 AM
Sorry, Maggot, should have figured you were mocking the situation.
There is a lot of publicity surrounding the case and it does get tiring. I understand that.
Likewise, it gets tiring for me to hear people insist that Trayvon Martin was just another black thug teen who wouldn't have amounted to anything anyway. Whether one believes his death was a result of self defense or not, it's a presumption that says more about the person espousing it than it does Trayvon Martin and his family, imo.
I'd feel the same about any kid who wasn't in the commission of a crime and wound up dead due to, at minimum, a misunderstanding with an adult that might have been avoided by the words, "I'm Neighborhood Watch and I've called the police".
In my mind, there's no justification to either glorify or crucify Martin, Zimmerman or the jury.
There is a lot of publicity surrounding the case and it does get tiring. I understand that.
Likewise, it gets tiring for me to hear people insist that Trayvon Martin was just another black thug teen who wouldn't have amounted to anything anyway. Whether one believes his death was a result of self defense or not, it's a presumption that says more about the person espousing it than it does Trayvon Martin and his family, imo.
I'd feel the same about any kid who wasn't in the commission of a crime and wound up dead due to, at minimum, a misunderstanding with an adult that might have been avoided by the words, "I'm Neighborhood Watch and I've called the police".
In my mind, there's no justification to either glorify or crucify Martin, Zimmerman or the jury.