clownboy
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to some people this story is about racism. But it was evident not in zimmerman's actions, but the system of justice for allowing zimmerman's attorneys to portray Trayvon as a sterotypical black hoodlum and thug, bringing up Martins school history, personal images on his cell phone, and information about how he stole some jewelry.
On the other hand the prosecution was not able use Zimmerman prior history of repeatedly calling the police to report African American's that he viewed as suspicious.
to some people, this trial ended up with Martin viewed as the criminal, not the victim.
Which of course is totally false. Are you sure you followed the trial and didn't just read the mountains of crap floating around the internet. The fact that Martin was stoned at the time was excluded from trial. If the point was to portray Martin as a garden variety street thug (pretty common for the defense to do in a case like this regardless of whether the "victim" is white or black) the judge would have included that evidence.
And calling Martin a victim shows your extreme bias to begin with. Zimmerman was found not guilty due to self defense. By definition that means Martin was not the victim.