Zimmerman verdict: Not Guilty.

[wolf39us]

That's not quite what happened in that case. She had a fight with her husband, decided to leave, and went into the garage. Then she discovered she forgot her keys, and before entering the house again to get her keys she fired a shot into the wall in the direction of where her children were. If she were in fear of her safety, she could have left the house and not gone back in. Her husband was not pursuing her or fighting with her when she fired the shot.

She could have taken a 3 year plea bargain but fought it and got 20 years. Is 20 years too harsh? Probably. But the entire media picked up the story and ran with the idea that she is a helpless battered wife who was just firing a warning shot to keep her abusive husband away and wrongly got 20 years in prison for it.

Again, ask yourself...honestly... if a white woman in Florida would have gotten the same treatment. Be honest.

As it was said earlier in this thread, 99% of cases go un-televised and most don't even make it to the paper. Some people go free when they probably shouldn't have, and some get death sentences happen when they shouldn't have. Be they white, black, latino, asian (whatever)... these cases go unpublished.

But do you know what DOES get televised? Anything related to white vs black crime or anything that can be construed as a "hate" or racist crime.

In the case of George Zimmerman what happened? The media and general public assumed he was a white redneck looking to kill the next nigger he saw walking down the street. People looked at this case through the lens of assuming racism for everything related to "insert race here" to (non-white race).

We can't assume that everyone's motives are racially motivated. Evidence must be presented that suggests racist motives beyond a reasonable doubt.

You know what is racist though? Assuming that every non-black on black crime is somehow inherently racist.

Racist shit happens all the time, I get that... That doesn't justify slapping a label on everyone who commits a crime towards another of a different race!