| Kaizar said:
If Martin was a pale blonde white boy with acne and frickles then he wouldn't have found him suspicious. George said "they are always trying to get away with something"....that's a racial reference to black people by anti-black people, that is always said by those people only. Goeroge Zimmerman clearly had a racist bias against blacks & Mexicans his whole life, and he never consider himself Hispanic, and said he hates Hispanics, LOL but true. |
Rest of this thread is bullshit, but this was the last post, so...
To claim that Zimmerman had used racial profiling is to suggest that he would have treated Trayvon Martin as suspicious just for being black. No other factors. Not age, not gender, not clothing, nothing. To claim that he would have stalked a little old black woman, or even a black man of the same age who was wearing, I dunno, upper-middle class college attire seems like a massive stretch.
Here's the thing, most people do make snap judgements about people based on their properties. I'm a tall, white male 22 years old. You know what, if I walked around with a skin head, covered in tattoos, some kind of white vest on, or whatever, people are going to judge me as being dangerous, and with good reason.
The fact that Trayvon was wearing low-riding trousers and a hoodie is just as much of a factor in Zimmerman's judgements than his skin colour. Not to mention that he was walking late at night in the rain, in an area that had recently seen a large number of home invasions. Turns out, he had a somewhat legitimate reason (returning from the store with ingredients to make lean, a type of drug - which has the property of increasing paranoia), but being suspicious of Trayvon in those circumstances is something that most people would be "guilty" of.
Also, let's not forget that Trayvon almost certainly WAS a thief. He was currently living with his dad, after being expelled from school for breaking into lockers and stealing materials. Now, Zimmerman thought the guy was a thief, based on all number of properties and circumstances... and it turns out that he most probably was a thief. Seems to me that Zimmerman did a good job in profiling.
