RE: Fact is stranger than fiction: George Zimmerman signing autographs?
March 12, 2014 at 12:53 pm
(This post was last modified: March 12, 2014 at 12:54 pm by *Deidre*.)
(March 12, 2014 at 12:08 pm)kılıç_mehmet Wrote:(March 11, 2014 at 7:01 pm)Beccs Wrote: This made me sick when I read it.Yeah, sure. In today's world, any incidents relating to minorities are put before everything else. I'm not saying this for just america, but here in my own country aswell.
If he'd shot a white kid he'd be on death row right now.
Just today, thousands of people mourned some kid who accidentally got hit in the head with a gas canister from the police and died after being in a coma, but no one talks about a girl who died from the burns caused by a molotov cocktail thrown by some anarchists on a bus, or the many soldiers we lost in battle against insurgents.
Same for America.
Why really mourn so hard for a kid whose only accomplishment was to simply die, and while assaulting some other guy?
The modern world constantly spits out false idols to present to the people as heros or victims. Regrettable as his death might have been, I don't think that Trayvon's death ever deserved so much attention.
Well, I think it received a lot of attention for a number of reasons, the main one being that a neighborhood watch guy took the law into his own hands. That's not his choice to do, and Trayvon wasn't bothering anyone. The events that led up to Trayvon reacting as he did to me, are vital. Who knows how you might react if you are being followed for a while through neighborhoods? Not justifying his reaction, but the outcome of that trial sent a message to other neighborhood watch people that you can take the law into your own hands. To me, that is wrong.
I agree with you though in a general sense that the media tries to force its view of who's a hero and victim onto the public.