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Originally Posted by driveway
The reason so many people feel so passionately about this case is that where you keep using the word "suspicious" to describe Trayvon Martin, most people recognize that the word you should use is "black."
Zimmerman saw a black person and his mind immediately decided that black=suspicious. This is not really racism, it's just the nature of things in the United States.
It's what Obama addressed in his comments the other day, it's why Martin turned around to confront Zimmerman. It's the reason LeVar Burton has to hang his hands outside his car if he gets stopped by the police so he doesn't get shot.
If Martin was white, Zimmerman sees a teenager. Because he's black he sees a suspicious person. That is a huge, huge problem and is the reason why so many people are upset about this case.
Zimmerman is not racist, he's just American, and that's what's wrong.
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I agree with everything that you said, but thinking about profiling always reminds me of the this quote by Jesse Jackson: "There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery, then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved."
Of course, Jesse Jackson has never looked around, seen somebody black, and then shot them to death.