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Originally Posted by dead_battery
i have little doubt that suchfriends is a good and honourable guy, but he, along with many others, have lost their minds over this issue. the media told them it was a racially motivated murder, and they got so emotionally attached to it, they were unable to detach and rationally asses it.
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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.
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i it just sucks that the media lied so much and made this into something it wasn't.
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It remains what it always way, a cruel and brutal injustice. Again, AN UNARMED TEENAGER WAS WRONGFULLY CONFRONTED, ANTAGONIZED, AND SUBSEQUENTLY SHOT TO DEATH.