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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
I don't think people mean "racist", in that Zimmerman has malice towards black people, but rather that he profiles him based on race. A lot of people do this and don't even realize they are being racist.
Personally, I think he was profiling Martin, but his clothes (and what they implied about his social status), as well as his age played a bigger role than race.
I remember a time when I was 18, I was driving home late at night in my old beater and returning a movie at the after hours dropoff at the store. A cop car pulled up behind me so I couldn't leave and he confronted me about why I was there. I guarantee you that if I was a 40 year old driving a nice car, there would have been no confrontation. I think the same type of profiling was happening here.
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Yep, 100% agreed. He might not be racist but there definitely was racial profiling going on. The same way that the people at the airport aren't racist but it's no coincidence the brown people are always the last ones of the plane to make it through customs.