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Re: Trayvon Martin - March 26th 2012, 03:39 AM

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I love how people who know nothing think they know everything. No one knows exactly what happened other than the two people involved, and one of those people is dead.
Exactly. Still, that hasn't stopped the media from running fucking wild with it.

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And to the people who say "stuff like this happens all the time": Do you not realize that that's not fucking okay? Shit like this shouldn't EVER happen. Brushing it off just makes you look like an ignorant person who's content with the world's problems.
I think part of the issue for a lot of people, is that the only reason this got so much attention was because the original story was that a "white" man had shot an unarmed black kid in a "gated" neighborhood, and it exploded as a racial issue, while a lot of people honestly didn't understand why it was getting so much attention when the same, if not worse shit was happening all over the place.

Example: http://news.yahoo.com/student-shot-d...054223724.html

Guess how much media coverage that's going to get? None.

Doesn't mean it should happen. It SHOULDN'T, but it does.


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