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So you're saying, if someone has you against a sidewalk (i dont know the american terms for these things) and is smacking your head off it - its not permissible to use a gun? Do you think that Zimmerman necessarily WANTED to shoot him? He panicked.
It's reasonable to accept someone to understand that if you assault someone in a serious way its possible that they are going to react badly and hurt you back! It's possible they will act irrationally in self defense and you might end up injured or dead. It would have been better if he hadn't killed him - of course - but it wasn't due to his fucking race. I know thats the easy judgement to make but its not true in this case.
How else could he have stopped it? He's fat and was on the ground. Seriously I'm sorry but i'm not surprised he used it and I don't think he should be prosecuted for murder for doing so.
And why do you want to pretend that the BLACKNESS of Martin should be a thing here? There are white robbers creeping around neighbourhoods aswell.
So you're saying, if you got a call from your friend saying 'there's an escaped mental patient whose psychotic and violent and was last seen in your backyard' and this person happened to be black it would be racist for you to assume the black person you can see out your window might be the same dangerous nut?
It's the same logic as - "hey man, this guy says hes going to beat you up, i dont know his name but he's wearing a red baseball cap". I'm going to be on the lookout when I see fuckers in red baseball cap. I am not thus prejudiced.
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As for the rest of your points - I'll accept it because I don't live there and I don't know. I rarely ever interact with other races (because not many live here). When I do interact with them, their race is not a thing that is discussed or affects my behaviour in any way I can see. I might speak slower if their english is not so good. That's about it.
But I strongly suspect that when you talk about structural racism what you are really saying is 'a lot of white people' whom you want to blame for their not being an equal or greater number of black people in these positions. And you don't want there to be ANY other reason for that other than white people oppressing them. It's too simplistic a narrative. It hasn't actually worked all that well, since the ghettos and poverty and lower rates of life expectancy are still there.
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