Nvm, before I opened this thread I knew I would be offended... I asked for it. So disregard my comments. I should not have wasted my energy reading this in the first place

United States of the Oppressed. Everyone wants to be in the victim class...

You haven't changed in 5 years. You are completely incapable of thinking with a sociological imagination and your social views are warped and selfish...
in other words...asshole then, asshole now, asshole tomorrow

here and on your facebook
you're using a completely irrelevant issue to ameliorate a child's murder. How do you sleep at night?

Lol @ child....c'mon TJ, don't let CNN convince you he was some little 12 year old kid carrying his tuba home from band practice. The truth is most certainly somewhere in between your point of view and Jesse's. Trayvon was most likely nowhere near innocent and Zimmerman was nowhere near righteous. As usual the world needs everything to be in black and white (pun intended) when the truth is always in the grey.

Do you honestly think Trayvon was just minding his business and singled out only due to his skin color?

The point I am making is that it doesn't matter what he was doing. Even if he was burning down empty houses and Even if the law says it's "ok" to kill him...He did not deserve to die. if you think so, then you need to re-evalute yourself, you're fucked up on the inside. Don't let laws determine your morals. Whatever he was doing, it did not warrant his death.

And He wasn't an adult. So he was a child to me.

and I could care less about his race. In my eyes that is irrelevant.

If you don't care about his race then why are you offended? Then you tell us to disregard one law (stand your ground) yet embrace another (not an adult (18) = child). Make your mind up. Nobody here has said Trayvon deserved to die, we are simply speaking out against the "reverse racism" that the media and black activists have twisted this story to become.

what does my facebook have to do with anything?

And how am I being an asshole here? For stating a parallel between 2 things?

Thrax, I can only be offended by racism now???
As I've said the whole time...It does not matter to me if it was a hate crime...My mind has been made up, lol

I have been cut off from the media. I do not have a television. I do not keep up with this case. I do not watch the news. What I initally knew about this case has come from unbiased heresay. I said all that to say, I never even thought of this case as a "hate crime"...

Ofc with a google search you can find a wealth of information and biases. But I have not even done that. But when I said initally said "offended" and "ignorant," I was completely refering to the link that he posted on his facebook AND I was referring to the fact that I feel like his attitude, comments, etc. are making light of the fact that this guy was murdered for no reason.

Not once had it even crossed my mind that Trayvon's case could be a hate crime. Until I saw his ignorant link on his facebook and read some of the comments in this thread Even after reading several links about this case, I never thought "this is a hate crime." My mind and consolation went to the people that lost this kid, to the people that cared about him...and that is the honest truth. He was 17 years old and I am still blown away by your lack of compassion and sympathy.

Travis; this is the third thread in 3 days where you are pointing fingers and getting all offended.

Give it a rest... take a deep breath...

Another point; you are calling everyone else ignorant but confess you know very little about the case.

You even go as far to say that he was killed for nothing and that there is nothing he could have been doing that would deserve a bullet.

Well you are wrong; if someone jumped me and was smashing my head against a curb; I'd not hesitate to put a bullet in his chest. This is exactly what Zimmerman claimed happened.

Like I said earlier; let all the facts come out before forming an opinion. One man is dead and the other claims self defense. Only a judge and jury can decide. Until then save us all the crazy behavior.