the kid was running AWAY from the police officer and the police mistook his sandwich for a gun? there was no audible sound of bullets? he was holding a sandwich and not a gun? an off duty police officer shot an unarmed KID that was running away from him 16 times and claims that HE feared for HIS life and thought his sandwich was a gun? what more exactly do you need to hear? if you’re contesting this any way in ANY WAY then i cannot associate with you, i cannot take you seriously as a human being. if hearing all of this, if after hearing all of this in association with the past 60 days of hell the residents of ferguson/st. louis have gone through and the fact that darren wilson is still being paid and kept free after shooting dead an unarmed kid your first thoughts are ‘but he shouldn’t have had that sandwich’ then you are justifying violence, you are metastasizing an already deadly situation and you hold partial responsibility for the hostility that exists in the u.s today towards black americans
Tag: racism
During the summers I work at the same store as my mom. She is currently without internet, so when I went in today I asked if she had heard the Zimmerman was found not guilty. The other lady working with us overheard and butted in with a “Good!” I stared at her and she said something about Trayvon not being as innocent as he seemed.
I thought that would be the worst thing I heard during my shift, since I do stock and don’t have a lot of customer interaction, but later my mom took me aside and told me that despite her politics, this lady was a really nice person and I shouldn’t judge her.
And it just really hit me that this is part of why white people are so vile. We think that racism is an issue of politics and that we can endorse the murder of children and still be nice people.
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