Originally Posted by Britster  It's someone's opinion. And honestly? If someone posted "black kids get the short end of the stick" - I guarantee nobody would be as "disturbed". Most would probably agree with the notion. I was in middle and high school not that long ago, and black kids could say anything about white kids... "white trash" "cracker" whatever. But if you said anything about a black kid, all hell broke loose. The double standard just cracks me up. And then you would have those young blacks who would pull the "It's because I'm black" card. They would be acting up in class, not listening, teacher would yell at them, and they would say they were being singled out because they were black. Uh, no, it's because you were acting like an idiot and unfortunately, happen to be only one of two black kids in the class. Then the teacher would feel like she couldn't even punish them, for fear of being crucified or labeled as a racist. In middle school, 95% of my friends were black. I loved them! We were no different, they treated me just like they would anyone and I did the same. I hung out with skaters, goths, preps, athletes, and everyone in between.
Of course racism still exists... in EVERY race. There's going to be whites who hate anyone that's NOT white, blacks that hate Mexicans, blacks that hate whites, whatever. It's true what Taylor said tho. IF there was a white kid killed under the same circumstances by a black adult, I highly doubt that there would be white groups running around protesting all over the US. If there were, it surely wouldn't be shown on mainstream news because it's so Un-PC.
Race issues aside, because as much as people want to make it seem like it's NOT, it has turned into a race issue... but there had been suspicious activity in this neighborhood before, break-ins, etc. And if a neighborhood watchmen is seeing a young man (who did not live there, so was NOT a normal occurrence going on) and was suspicious, he has every right to be. He definitely made a bad decision, IMO. I don't think he handled as he should have from what I've heard. But I just don't think it's right to label Trayvon as a perfect kid and Zimmerman has an evil monster until we can hear all the facts. If Zimmerman had been attacked by him, then yeah he did have a right to protect himself. A gun perhaps wasn't the brightest idea, I would think there could be another weapon less deadly you could carry around. |