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Originally Posted by Cowperson
See my description of this innocent "child" above.
In zero tolerance USA school systems, black kids are far more likely to be suspended than whites.
As a black male in the Miami-Dade County school system, Treyvan had a 41% chance of being suspended once.
I do not know what the odds are that he would have been suspended three times before his 18th birthday but even for a black child, that would probably driven him down to a lower, more exceptional percentage.
There are four times as many blacks in college than there are in American prisons . . . . but a black male without a high school education has almost a 50% likelihood of serving prison time.
Young Treyvan seemed well on his way to fitting into a statistical stereotype.
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Why do I care what the odds were of him being suspended? How does this support in any way what you said earlier about Zimmerman and his "good instincts" in following Martin?
You posted saying Zimmerman had "good instincts" in following Martin, because Martin had been suspended from school prior. The actual suspensions , however, are hardly supportive of any type of violent criminal stereotype. To believe that "good instincts" lead to the ultimate death of a young man that committed no criminal act is ridiculous.