The reason people were crying racism, other than it being "white" on black violence, was the way the media manipulated the story. They set up a narrative that this was a white man who thought that a black "child" could only be up to no good because of his race. And they went so far as manipulating the audio to sell the idea and get people watching. By showing pictures of Zimmerman in his orange jumpsuit and Martin when he was a child to further play with the emotions. The NBC executives who gave the okay to do so are less than scum.
And of course the original story had the most impact as "our" attention spans are so low and we were so outraged by the idea that it represented. Now that facts, like maybe Trayvon was the aggressor, and he was almost certainly on top of Zimmerman giving him a beating when he got shot, don't hold the same weight to many who had already made up their minds and got sidetracked by Kardashian being pregnant.
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