I’m sure George Zimmerman or whatever the fuck his name is didn’t think he was a racist either. He probably never expected to be confronted with a decision as to whether a young Black boy walking down the street was dangerous or not. He probably never thought about because he already thought about it. The decision was already made. He decided that stereotypes were more important than facts, and it cost that boy his life. he decided that academia was more important than the lived experience of the folks he studied (likely for no reason than it was a requirement), and it cost Trayvon his life. He decided that a young man with a bag of Skittles and an iced tea in his pocket was a danger to him and his community based on nothing but the idea that he somehow didn’t belong, that somehow, Trayvon’s very presence anywhere near that gated white community was wrong.
And Trayvon Martin is dead.
And I want to live.
And this shit happens all the time. Not once in a while, not here and there, but all the fucking time. And damn it, this shit needs to stop.
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