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As entertainment critic Roger
Ebert once said, "If you disagree with something I write, tell me so, argue
with me, correct me--but don't tell me to shut up. That's not the American way."
It definitely is a case that has a lot of assumptions jumping all over it.
And on both sides. He wasn't walking in a gated community he had no business in at 3 am as some people who are backing Zimmerman claim. I mean the do actually let black people own homes in those places or visit people who live in them, and 7 at night is not an unusual time for an older teen to be going to the store to get something.
I do think on the "executed for no good reason" side you have a lot of people dumping their own experience of being suspected of something when they were just living their life like they thought they had a right to.
Heck, even in most studies people with darker skin tones are still more likely to assess a picture of a dark skinned person as up to no good compared to pictures of lighter skinned people.
So I think the "it just makes sense" the kid had to be shot for no reason and the cops are in on it (even after the fact) has taken over rather than the "something seems off about this" lets get more information to find out what really happened.
I do think it has raised some awareness of some of the subtle ways societal assumptions do effect people's lives. Even if this isn't a case of that. (but I do think the young black man wearing a hoodie has to be a criminal assumption has played some role in what happened).
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