I don't know whether he had his pants down below his ass but the point here is that he was wearing something that made him fit a profile. And lets not dance around the background information that the kid was kicked out of school for theft and for a bong, posting on twitter about getting high and making reference to hitting his bus driver. Now is that relevant? Well, yea, not in the sense that Zimmerman could make that distinction but in this case, Trayvon wasn't doing a whole lot to fight this image placed on him. He wasn't a thug or gangbanger but no one is going to stand up and say Trayvon Martin was a model student and fine representative of American youth.
Going back to your previous statements - if Trayvon was wearing Khaki's and a white button down, would he be profiled for simply being black? I can't answer that but I can say that if I saw a *white* kid in my neighborhood wearing a flat bill baseball cap, a hoodie and had pants hanging down below his ass - and he was walking down my street AND I didn't know who he was, I would be suspicious of him. Would I be concerned enough to call the police - nope, but then again, my neighborhood hasn't had a series of break-ins, not to mention that I'm not in a neighborhood watch program, much less in charge of one.
If my house or a neighbors house had been broken into the week before by a kid fitting that description, you better believe I would keep an eye on him, and at a minimum, call my neighborhood watch person to get down here and check this kid out.
. No one profiles white males buying fertilizer to blow up an Oklahoma City municipal building and adjoining day care.
you are way wrong on that. Living in a farm community post Oklahoma City bombing, I know you can't buy large quantities of fertilizer as just a regular citizen , even as a farmer without being under scrutiny. Tim McVeigh created a profile of , not necessarily a white male, but anyone purchasing fertilizer or a combination of chemicals. You can't get a rental truck without appropriate ID. While this is a very narrow profile, its the same premise as a hoodie - an image of crime is associated with a hoodie in the right context, just as buying large quantities of fertilizer is now.
et alone on Trayvon and his hoodie wearing gangsterism that NO ONE ELSE IN THE WORLD should be able to wear and have the expectation of not being shot at or have your shooting justified.
no, that is a huge jump. Wearing a hoodie might get you unjustly hassled by a wannabe cop neighborhood watch dude, what gets your ass shot is banging a wannabe cop's head on the pavement when he has a Kel Tec 9mm in his pocket.
9 times out of 10, regardless of what you are wearing or what color you are, you're gonna get capped.
I also think you are making an assumption here that it wasn't his responsibility to carry a gun. Here we have a situation where someone in a position of authority told Zimmerman to carry a gun for his protection, and Zimmerman went the thru the necessary legal steps to carry that gun legally. His job was to watch the neighborhood, he has precedent just a week earlier that African American kids were breaking into homes regularly. I agree that a neighborhood watch shouldn't be locked and loaded, but I also can see why if they are the point where ...again...African American youth are breaking into homes with people in the house in this neighborhood. I can fully understand why Zimmerman made the decision to carry a gun after reading that article and the circumstances that community was facing.
And Yea I can put some blame on Trayvon Martin's parents. Keep your son off twitter talking about getting high and hitting people, get his ass in school , stop him smoking weed and tell him not to talk shit to people in a strange neighborhood. That is parenting 101.
I like the stinky pinky but only up to the first knuckle, I do not want a GD thumb up there--I've told her multiple times and I always catch her when she tries to pull a fast one---it's my butthole for Chrissakes I'm gonna know--so cut out the BS.