@BillRM,
Quote:That is a young man who think it is cool at the very best to be a hoodlum not a kid dreaming of a future of college and a career in a field he might be interested in.
At best he might dream of being a rapper or some such but not a kid that dream of becoming president like Obama even those Obama is IDing with the kid. Or even getting a high pay trade for that matter where heAndwould become a solid middle class citizen.
You really don't know what the hell you are talking about.
That's a perfectly normal kid playing around and taking pictures of himself--that's what kids do now--they take pictures of themselves, and videos of themselves, and post them on the social media. Adolescents try on identities, different "looks"--they try to seem and look more adult--that's part of growing up. The girls do it with make-up and odd hairstyles, both genders do it with tattoos and piercings. And Trayvon probably did enjoy trying to look like a rapper--white kids do the same thing with their music idols--that didn't mean his ambition in life was to be a rapper. What he did in the privacy of his room in those photos of himself was not the way this kid looked and acted in the outside world. These were teen fantasies.
Like Zimmerman, you are profiling the wrong kid.
Trayvon Martin did plan on going to college, just like his older brother. And his mother graduated from college as well. Like most middle class parents, Trayvon's parents wanted, and expected, their children to go onto college. And Trayvon also had a specific interest in aviation, he had attended a program at an aviation school, and he talked about wanting to be a pilot.
Quote:That is a young man who think it is cool at the very best to be a hoodlum not a kid dreaming of a future of college and a career in a field he might be interested in
That is complete bullshit, it doesn't apply to this particular kid. That's your racist stereotyping and your assumption that all young black men live in ghettos and are on a fast-track to prison.
You are a disgusting bigot.
Trayvon Martin came from a family, a decent, and loving, and hard-working family, that was making it in this world. His middle class parents were involved with their children, and gave them discipline and guidance, and gave them the belief in themselves that they could accomplish things and succeed in the world. Trayvon's brother will graduate from college this year, and probably go on to a successful future. The tragedy is that Trayon Martin won't be able to follow him on that path because some loser with a gun decided to play vigilante one night.
You can't even look at a middle class black family and acknowledge they are doing everything right. You have to turn them into vile stereotypes of black failure, producing criminal children, who deserve to die, just to make them conform to your racist attitudes and mind-set.
George Zimmerman was the one with the arrest history, not Trayvon Martin. George Zimmerman was the one who, even by the age of 28, hadn't managed to graduate from a community college. George Zimmerman had a succession of jobs, and no "career" of any sort, and he was always heavily in debt and was sued for non-payment of his credit card bills at least once.
And on the night of the shooting, his wife had just walked out on him.
At 28, George Zimmerman was really going nowhere in his life.
Trayvon Martin was the one with the promising future--and Zimmerman robbed him of that.
