So over this weekend, a lot celebrities had changed their avatars on instagram, and were posting a specific picture and i later found out that these were to commemorate Trayvon's death as his killer was on trial.
I woke up this morning to find out that george zimmerman has been found innocent........
Which makes me think a few things - if Trayvpn had been a young white boy would his killer have been found guilty? If george zimmerman had been black and Trayvon been white, i personally think its highly likely that the killer wouldnhave been found guilty in this instance.
Some media sources have been using pictures of Trayvon which show him in a bad light, but he was young - we all do silly things when we're young, yet they go out of their way to put up pictures of him posing with his middle fingers up...why?
Another thing to note about this situation is that george zimmerman doesnt even look white, he looks like he could be latino or some other ethnic minority which makes me think he could have experienced some sort of racism at some point, yet he assumes black male + hoodie in a nice neighbourhood = danger.
This story reminds me ofnthe story of Stephen Lawrence - black male innocently killed by a group of white guys, yet a lot of people in the uk refused to see them as guilty, and it took so long for his family to finally be at peace. Except this time around there has been no justice and there might never be.
