And the tri color of Ireland and the Philippine flag.

Don't even get close to me or my SO with this racist crap.

You will be hurt. More from my SO because she is stronger and more tribal than me.

I have discovered that I am an internationally famous civil rights leader. I ask "How did that happen?" I guess it's because of my Loudmxr Loud mouth.

Things have been close at times... Running for one's life for being different... To the cheers of the mob. That poor kid and his family... The video of his father crying all the way through, such dignity in the face of this inhumanity... I've always known that being black was like having a target painted on your back.

Zimmerman was notorious for being a hotheaded vigilante. He had a rep and a record. Trayvon had nothing. Just an innocent kid trying to get back home with some candy to finish watching the game with his Dad. The damn cops are protecting a fekking criminal. Shit.

When does this crap END?

It won't be any time soon. The media pushing seeing the world as a shooting gallery is in every home and too strong for those with no root to resist. Zimmerman, like millions of others are the walking dead, are living out a game that says they are always in danger and will get points for killing.

The zombie apocalypse is here, in case anyone hadn't noticed. Very little awareness of what is going on, it's a stress reaction to change, and it's entered into voluntarily. The conscience of mankind has never been under such relentless and pervasive attack, to see each other as nothing more than an enemy. But for blacks, this has always been so in this country in some areas, where this happened was no surprise. Note, no riots in the streets, either.

The police chief's comments have been very hurtful when he said about the boy, 'that he would have done something different...' How about the guy with the gun doing something different? That is never brought up.

That's the truth. What would young Trayvon have done different? Crawled through a drain pipe so as to not be seen by the eyes of an overzealous vigilante looking for an enemy or someone to make into an enemy so he can play neighborhood war games?

The victim isn't Zimmerman. He's the perp. And the onus to do better ought to be on him. It's SO fekkin bassackwards.

He didn't act alone, as seen by the coverup of what he did, the euphemisms, the lack of action. So while he's not the victim, he was the hand that pulled the trigger for the attitude that to be black is suspect. And that a life of color, or the poor, or the elderly or immigrant, or any group that is considered different is not worth as much as those who consider themselves normal. This is the curse of America.

I have not heard anything that said this boy's behavior was not the same as anyone else being confronted by someone they didn't know while going about their own business. The idea that anyone running is a confession of guilt, is what someone who insists that they be given an explanation and attention.

If someone come at me in that situation, I would have been screaming 'rape!' just like people used to scream 'fire!' How did the kid know the guy wasn't a pervert trying to assault or kidnap, a thief trying to rob him, whatever?

Zimmerman, supposedly, was not being paid to do what he did. He had NO such authority to pull someone aside for any reason.

I was talking to a kid and strange when I think of it, about something like this yesterday. About intervening when you think someone is doing wrong. Watching a lot of Batman and Superman gave the kid the idea that it was okay to get after the bad guy and give them a lesson.

I reminded him that those are fictional people in a movie, that such behavior in real life is cause to be sent to jail or prison. It took a while to get to the examples, because each one was of some person that he saw as heroic and could do no wrong, somehow, they were always right.

Isn't this what bigotry always says, that it is not the act but the person doing it that makes it the right thing to do? That calls it right or wrong?

I can't disagree with a word you wrote. The attitude's the gun. Zimmerman just pulled the trigger.