On February 26th of this year, tragedy struck the Martin family when they heard the news of their 17 year old son, Trayvon, being shot and killed. What was he doing, you may ask? He was walking back to his father's fiancees home, in a gated community, carrying only an iced tea and a bag of Skittles. The murderer, 28 year old George Zimmerman, was a part of the neighborhood watch group.

There's nothing wrong with that, except for the fact that he has called police 46 times since the beginning of the year, he weighs twice what Trayvon does, and according to neighbors, was "fixated on crime and focused on young, black boys", AND he has been criticized by these same neighbors for his aggressive tactics. Yet, Zimmerman wasn't even tested for drugs or alchohol after he murdered Trayvon. He was questioned and released by the very same officer who was criticized for purposely releasing a lieutenant's son who clearly attacked a homeless man back in 2010.

 

If this isn't a case of racial profiling, I don't know what is. Trayvon's parents have even said that there is no doubt in their minds that if the shooter was black, and the victim was white, the black man would "still be sitting in jail." Zimmerman answered that Trayvon was black when asked, then repeated it, as if to make sure they knew what they were dealing with. Then, he claimed, "these a**holes always get away." What group was he referring to exactly? Franky I think the only person getting away here is George Zimmerman himself.

"I know America is the land of liberty, but my child has to understand he’s just free-ish."

-Christy Oglesby

(on teaching her son, Drew, that he must live his life worrying about not looking any sort of suspicious, due to racial profiling)