@BillRM,
Quote:It is amusing in a sad way that the hated Zimmerman adid try to help out directly by mentoring fatherless black children and seeking justice for a homeland black man wrongly charge with assaulting a white man when it was the other way around.
No, what's sadder is that Zimmerman wrongly profiled and stalked an innocent black child who was not a gang member, and who did not come from a fatherless family, Trayvon Martin not only had a father very much involved in his life, he had other strong male role models in his uncles, one of whom is an ex-marine. And he came from a close knit, education minded family, with strong spiritual values. His older brother wasn't sitting in a jail cell, he was a college senior.
And despite whatever Zimmerman might have done to mentor some black kids, he still looked at Martin that night, a black teen who was doing nothing more than walking round and talking on his cell phone, and absently looking around at the buildings surrounding him, and he immediately perceived him as a "suspicious character" who seemed "to be up to no good" and one of those "f--king punks who always get away." It was that mind-set on Zimmerman's part that ultimately led to Martin's death--he was determined not to let this one get away.
So even those middle class black parents, like Tracey Martin and Sybrina Fulton, who care for and love their children, and impart good values to them, and who encourage them to stay in school and go on to college, cannot protect them from what goes on in the mind of someone like George Zimmerman, when he looks at their black child and sees him as a threat, mainly based on the color of his skin.
And you rationalize and support the racial profiling of the sort that turned an innocent black teen's trip back from a 7/11 store into the last journey he would ever make, because an angry vigilante didn't want this "f--king punk" to get away.
People like you, make it impossible for people like Martin's parents to ever feel their children are safe from racism or violence, no matter where they are, not even within the confines of a private gated middle class housing complex, as long as the color of their child's skin evokes fear, suspicion, and anger, and as long as there are people, like you, who don't even care if their children are needlessly killed after being hunted down like prey, because an unstable man wanted to play wannabe cop.