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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
You don't know what you're talking about and neither does the media. Its not about if Zimmerman was racists, or if he was racially motivated to kill Trayvon (though in truth, there is some evidence of racial bias based on several of his comments to the police in his 47 previous complaints). It is about the structural and societal racism which was why it took over a month to press charges. Why the jury let Zimmerman off, even from accidental death, even when Zimmerman completely admitted to being the shooter. The evidence we had was a dead, unarmed teenager, who happened to be black, and a grown ass man who ignored the 911 dispatcher who told him not to confront Trayvon, and who had no necessary legal right to confront Trayvon in the first place. If it were two middle-aged white men, and one had killed the other unarmed white man, I would STILL demand at least a manslaughter conviction.
It remains what it always way, a cruel and brutal injustice. Again, AN UNARMED TEENAGER WAS WRONGFULLY CONFRONTED, ANTAGONIZED, AND SUBSEQUENTLY SHOT TO DEATH.
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Sounds like you're saying that because he was black, we have to understand that he's so sensitive and aggressive, even the slightest hint of "antagonism" can set him off.
How was he antagonized? HOW? He chose to walk over and beat the crap out of Zimmerman, who was a decent guy trying to protect a neighbourhood that had collectively called the cops 400 times over a 2 month period. Explain how Zimmerman was wrong in his decision to look out for and follow a suspicious person in a neighbourhood like that? Explain how he wasn't a decent man trying to protect his property and his neighbor's property and safety. Explain how, if I was standing in that alley, inert, for no discernible reason, it would not be PERFECTLY justifiable, and in fact, socially conscientious, to call the cops and follow me until they arrived at the very least?
Go on, explain how his "antagonism" justifies Trayvon leaping on him and beating the shit out of him? He was standing in an alleyway, the surrounded houses had been burglarized MANY times! Zimmerman was perfectly right to call the cops. Explain how Zimmerman started the fight?
He was also perfectly justified in firing his gun after getting lept on and punched repeatedly in the head.
Cos I can't see a single instance were this evil racist plot to murder an innocent black man then refuse to jail his killer actually HAPPENED, apart from in your mind and the media.
You decided there was structural racism because you want there to be. You don't want equality, because you bask in the righteous innocence of the oppressed. Your religion is a form of mystic christo ethiopian ethno nationalism. You're biased.
I think its a real shame what happened, and it's a real shame that blacks in the US are in the position they are often in. And that the mixture of squalor and poverty and racist prejudice are not simply a matter of the latter causing the former, as you need it to be. That is too simplistic and its not a model that can fix the problem.