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In your last paragraph you decry the fact that this case is now a playground for race-baiters.
Yet the first paragraph of your post is full of examples of how racism exists in the US.
If there was a matter + antimatter = annihilation filter for internet posts, your's would have made a heck of an explosion.
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What I am saying is the media coverage is influenced by the location. Those that say sterotyping and profiling are bad do exactly that. If a white man shoots an unarmed black in Mississippi they are pretty much already guilty in the press. He is guilty because he is a white man from mississippi and therefore racist and he got off because the police force is racist, as they have done that before. You say a hispanic man kills an unarmed black man in LA and the tone of the coverage is completely different. Racism will likely not even be mentioned. I think if Zimmerman's name was Figueras and he was listed as Hispanic, especially in Florida, the coverage would be much different. That is my principal disagreement with how all this happened. If you are against profiling and sterotyping be uniform in your reporting.