George Zimmerman is a good man. I know because he helped a family whose car was on fire.
The liberals should not be talking about justice for Trayvon Martin. Instead, they should be talking about justice for unborn babies. Killing them should be infanticide. But instead it’s legal. 😦
And besides, when something bad happens, it’s because God wanted it to. God clearly wanted Martin to die. He also clearly wanted Zimmerman to be set free. And help the family in the car! Or else it wouldn’t have happened.
George Zimmerman helping an innocent family is a great example of how God’s love is in our lives. 🙂 😉
In Georgia, an intellectually disabled black man named Warren Hill is scheduled to be executed this week, despite the Supreme Court ruling in Atkins v. Virginia that executing intellectually disabled people is unconstitutional.
Just south of Georgia, in Florida, a twenty-nine-year-old hispanic man named George Zimmerman was acquitted of charges of second-degree murder and manslaughter for the killing of Trayvon Martin, a seventeen-year-old black teenager who was walking home in a hoodie after buying iced tea and skittles.
Does anybody notice a pattern here?
Whether they are the criminal or the victim, the black guy gets handled the worst by our criminal justice system-nearly every time.
There are other examples, too. The ACLU released a series of reports on the racial gap on marijuana arrests. The results are shocking:
I think George Zimmerman is guilty. I think he shot Trayvon Martin for no good reason at all.
But I don’t think Zimmerman was thinking, “he’s black. He must be up to no good,” at the top of his head. That was instinct. George Zimmerman had been taught by society his entire life to be suspicious of Trayvon Martin.
As a city dweller, I often find myself walking passed somebody-it can be anybody, reakky- on the street and thinking in my head, “that person must be up to no good.” At the same time, I recognize that that is a totally illogical thought. I wouldn’t pull out a gun, even if I had (and could use) one because that first instinct has never been right.
Racial profiling is a part of our society. Everybody has, at one point or another, been guilty of it.
Which is not to say that racial profiling is a good thing. It killed Trayvon Martin and it has killed many others and will probably kill many more. It has had young men “stopped and frisked” by the NYPD for no reason other than their color. It has had innocent people executed in states like Texas and Florida.
Racial profiling is why blacks nearly universally end up on the wrong end of our criminal justice.
But along with Voter ID laws, it is the new racism in this country. You can be racially profiling somebody and not be knowing you are doing it, like George Zimmerman was. Calling Zimmerman “innocent” only opens the door for more profiling in the future.
It is time our society taught its citizens to “think before you shoot.” If you look at the facts of the case you can see that Zimmerman was acting almost like a vigilante who took matters into his own hands (in this case, for the worse). The 9/11 dispatcher told him to stop following Martin; he kept following him and shot him.
There is a really good movie entitled Adam’s Rib, starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy as two lawyers on opposite sides of the trial of a woman accused of shooting her husband for having an affair. Hepburn’s character wins the case for the defendant when she tells the jury to judge her client as if she were a man.
That’s what the jury here failed to do. Because if they had judged George Zimmerman as if he had killed a white boy, he would be sitting in a jail cell.
This isn’t the first time and it won’t be the last. How many times, in places like Texas and Florida, have we seen poor minority defendants given bad lawyers from the state and receive the death penalty in a trial with an all-white jury? Here it is only the opposite, Zimmerman hired a good, private lawyer who was able to win his case for a wealthy client. And he got away with murder.
In America, justice isn’t blindfolded. She’s usually a racist supporter of big corporations over ordinary citizens. She has every prejudice in the world, and it’s usually about making the wrong guy win (see Bush v. Gore, 2000).
There has not be any justice for Trayvon Martin. And unless we work to change our prejudices, I don’t think there will be.
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