The only account I read of this story does make Zimmerman out to be a maniac. The kid was walking home talking on his cell phone to his girlfriend and this guy pegs him for a thug and goes to confront him, killing him instead. If these are all the facts, it is indeed a sad story fueled by the self proclaimed neighborhood watch guy’s overzealousness and stupidity. But what all the reports fail to mention, and what I think is important, is that the black culture has brought this on themselves. The pop culture of blacks celebrates thugs, immorality, violence and fear and is broadcast all over the place in the media. Some idiot neighborhood watch yahoo is bound to see every black kid in a hoodie as a crack dealer. I once knew a very genteel black woman from Georgia. She taught school once upon a time and told me that she would never allow black students to wear anything other than conservative clothing. Why? Because she said because of the way blacks portray themselves in the media to the public, they are perceived by that public as potentially criminal.As a black , therefore. you must conscientiously look and speak differently than the gangster blacks look and speak. Once blacks as a race condemn rap music, charlatans like Al Sharpton et al, and all the other trappings of their present culture, then they will be taken, as a race, seriously. Until then, they have a lot of work to do.
Work, you said a bad word.