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Originally Posted by Guile
Trayvon is a thug who attacked Zimmerman, who acted in self defense under Florida law.
End of story, case closed.
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Agree to disagree on that one.
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Originally Posted by BDF
I imagine that when Zimmerman and Trayvon "met"... aka. Trayvon confronted Zimmerman about being stalked... Zimmerman probably made his suspicions known in some sort of aggressive manner. Trayvon then probably took offence, played the race card... "is it 'cuz I'm black?"... and retaliated some way or other. I have a feeling thought that more likely perhaps he tried to back out and Zimmerman stopped him... which led to the fight. Whatever it is...
... I am convinced that the race card was probably pulled which made everything more tense. It almost always happens when there is some confrontation between different uneducated or immature people of different ethnicities, and amongst those, most commonly black people (just my experience and what I see). And it's fucking stupid.
But that's just how I think things might have happened.
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Why would he pull the race card? He was walking home from a convenience store. He was guilty by association because he was black and wearing hoodlum related clothing. Whether he had good intentions or bad, it didn't matter. To Zimmerman, he was just a hoodlum black boy and Zimmerman felt inferior. It wasn't so much the race card, it was racial profiling.