Hello Morpheus2009, You said “My question is, what the heck was Trayvon’s father doing, much less thinking?”
I agree with you 100%. The parents dropped the parenting ball. If anyone is to blame for the death of their son the Father is. Why was he not supervised? They should be charged with child endangerment. Actually, they endangered the public with their delinquent youth.
Again, it’s probably the biggest issue of it all. Had his father bothered giving him ounces of the “be a man” talk my father gave me, Martin would likely still be alive. Failure to discipline Martin endangered pretty much everyone, including Martin himself. If it wasn’t Zimmerman, do you honestly think a street thug would be so merciful to Trayvon. Seriously, that’s the part that bothers me the most, there was failed discipline on his part, and what’s even more sad is how many kids get into the hotshot attitude that gets them into getting fragged by a gangster on the street, yet the press doesn’t bat an eye. Trayvon wasn’t the only one of his kind out there, it was just a case where they could make it an issue of race. However, numerous kids like Martin, arrogant, throwing hissy fits, and so on, get waxed by some street hustler, and the media doesn’t bat an eye in comparison to this case. Again, it’s a diversion from how the political system is doing on really helping the economy more than anything else. In addition to covering up how Martin’s dad was clueless about his son being in trouble for shoplifting and a school suspension related to violent activity.