George Zimmerman Found Not Guilty
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Just because I don't hear all the racial slurs ever used (& I am glad I don't) doesn't mean I have no life experience. 
How can I be making it about race? I am IN a Multi racial relationship!
How can I be making it about race? I am IN a Multi racial relationship!
YOU are the one continually bringing up race. THAT is how you are making it about race. Want it to not be about race? Stop bringing it up. That includes stop saying "GUYS IT'S NOT ABOUT RACE. What if my (insert boyfriends race here) boyfriend was to do this? Then what would happen?" Because that right there... Makes it about race.
For the record, just because you're dating somebody of a different race, does not mean you're not racist.
Just because I don't hear all the racial slurs ever used (& I am glad I don't) doesn't mean I have no life experience.
How can I be making it about race? I am IN a Multi racial relationship!
How can I be making it about race? I am IN a Multi racial relationship!
I believe we CAN bring race into this as a discussion, I don't think it should be taboo. In my personal opinion, I don't believe the actual incident was about race. I believe it leaned more towards stereotyping/what the kid was wearing and how he was acting, at least as far as being viewed as 'suspicious'. The actual court case, charges, and whatnot may be racially slanted. It does happen, no doubt.
Lol so now I am a racist ... whatever.
I think it was more about the kids age then it was about his race, that & the fact that he was acting suspiciously he just could have continued home then told his parents/ guardians once he got there what happened.
But no, he probably thought since he was younger & stronger then Zimmerman that he could "handle it" himself. We are also forgetting that as a member of neighborhood watch, Zimmerman was just doing his "job."
I'm not saying Zimmerman was right, I'm not saying Martian was right. They both handled the situation badly, the cops handled the situation badly also it was just a badly handled situation all around.
whatever. I think it was more about the kids age then it was about his race, that & the fact that he was acting suspiciously he just could have continued home then told his parents/ guardians once he got there what happened.
But no, he probably thought since he was younger & stronger then Zimmerman that he could "handle it" himself. We are also forgetting that as a member of neighborhood watch, Zimmerman was just doing his "job."
I'm not saying Zimmerman was right, I'm not saying Martian was right. They both handled the situation badly, the cops handled the situation badly also it was just a badly handled situation all around.
Lol so now I am a racist ... whatever.
I think it was more about the kids age then it was about his race, that & the fact that he was acting suspiciously he just could have continued home then told his parents/ guardians once he got there what happened.
But no, he probably thought since he was younger & stronger then Zimmerman that he could "handle it" himself. We are also forgetting that as a member of neighborhood watch, Zimmerman was just doing his "job."
I'm not saying Zimmerman was right, I'm not saying Martian was right. They both handled the situation badly, the cops handled the situation badly also it was just a badly handled situation all around.
whatever. I think it was more about the kids age then it was about his race, that & the fact that he was acting suspiciously he just could have continued home then told his parents/ guardians once he got there what happened.
But no, he probably thought since he was younger & stronger then Zimmerman that he could "handle it" himself. We are also forgetting that as a member of neighborhood watch, Zimmerman was just doing his "job."
I'm not saying Zimmerman was right, I'm not saying Martian was right. They both handled the situation badly, the cops handled the situation badly also it was just a badly handled situation all around.
So, in all seriousness, every single one of you saying that Martin was a hoodlum and got what was coming to him... you guys were perfect when you were seventeen? Never snuck out? Never ditched school? Never got suspended, tried smoking pot, pulled a prank that went too far... nothing?
At seventeen I was pretty far from perfect, but I don't think I deserved to die. Whatever y'all did as teenagers probably didn't warrant a spur of the moment death penalty from a racially profiling vigilante as you were walking to a place you knew you'd be safe.
Yes, things went way too far, but there is still a man who took illegal vigilante actions against a seventeen year old boy, perfectly innocent or not, and forcibly took his life. For Zimmerman to walk away without so much as a slap on the wrist is not only disgusting, it's a failure of our justice system. Martin didn't even have a chance to grow up and become whatever it was he'd have been, and that, people, isn't right, good kid or bad kid, he was still, no matter how you look at it, just a kid, and a scared one at that. Both were wrong, but two wrongs don't make a right.
At seventeen I was pretty far from perfect, but I don't think I deserved to die. Whatever y'all did as teenagers probably didn't warrant a spur of the moment death penalty from a racially profiling vigilante as you were walking to a place you knew you'd be safe.
Yes, things went way too far, but there is still a man who took illegal vigilante actions against a seventeen year old boy, perfectly innocent or not, and forcibly took his life. For Zimmerman to walk away without so much as a slap on the wrist is not only disgusting, it's a failure of our justice system. Martin didn't even have a chance to grow up and become whatever it was he'd have been, and that, people, isn't right, good kid or bad kid, he was still, no matter how you look at it, just a kid, and a scared one at that. Both were wrong, but two wrongs don't make a right.
There is a difference btw "not perfect" & doing just plain bad ****. The kid sprayed Graffiti on his school, stole, among other things. Does that means he deserved to die? No, but it makes me think he wasn't an innocent party in all of this anymore then Zimmerman was.
Besides, we aren't the ones who will have to live with the taking of a life for the rest of theirs. But if he had not had a gun, I firmly believe that Martian would have best Zimmerman to death.
Besides, we aren't the ones who will have to live with the taking of a life for the rest of theirs. But if he had not had a gun, I firmly believe that Martian would have best Zimmerman to death.
No this.
There isn't really "I love my caucasian husband" stickers for sillysally. I'm sorry.
No. No one is saying you are racist. Jess is saying just because you have an SO or a friend or a butler of a different race, it doesn't automatically make you not racist. It is still possible. She is not really saying that you, specifically, are racist.
There isn't really "I love my caucasian husband" stickers for sillysally. I'm sorry.
Lol so now I am a racist ... whatever.
whatever.
No. No one is saying you are racist. Jess is saying just because you have an SO or a friend or a butler of a different race, it doesn't automatically make you not racist. It is still possible. She is not really saying that you, specifically, are racist.
No this.
There isn't really "I love my caucasian husband" stickers for sillysally. I'm sorry.
No. No one is saying you are racist. Jess is saying just because you have an SO or a friend or a butler of a different race, it doesn't automatically make you not racist. It is still possible. She is not really saying that you, specifically, are racist.
There isn't really "I love my caucasian husband" stickers for sillysally. I'm sorry.
No. No one is saying you are racist. Jess is saying just because you have an SO or a friend or a butler of a different race, it doesn't automatically make you not racist. It is still possible. She is not really saying that you, specifically, are racist.
. As someone in a border state with a fiancée of a different race (though he is legally here) we have been the target of racism before. He has been called a "wet back" & a "job stealer", we just walk away & laugh at the morons because of how absurd it is. I just didn't think "oh yeah this was racially motivated" when I first heard about it, maybe because that's not how I think because to me it doesn't matter what color your skin is, if you are acting suspiciously I will keep an eye on you.