It's Watch!... Neighborhood Watch. Not shoot.

I agree that race was the reason Zimmerman thought Martin was up to no good.

Let me amend that. I think race and the way Martin was dressed. If some meth-addict-looking white guy with a hoodie on was walking through the neighborhood, Zimmerman would have acted the same way.

 

Drip doesn't see this as a race issue either.

 

Ha!

 

Because he fit the profile of someone who had recently been involved in a rash of break-ins in the neighborhood.

If your neighborhood had recently had a string of peeping toms and the description of the peeping tom was a white male wearing a Yankees baseball cap and black trenchcoat, would YOU not get suspicious if you saw a white male wearing a Yankees baseball cap and black trenchcoat walking through your neighborhood?

Edit: Just saw your amendment, and I agree with you.

 

I'm suspicious of all Yankee fans.

 

Yeah, the "creepy ass cracker" injected race into their eventual confrontation.

Zimmerman was alone in looking at the events of the evening through a racial lens.

 

Hey, leave the honorable, law abiding Yankees out of this!

 

I should add that national media outlets made it an issue of race immediately, especially by chopping up the 911 tape to make it sound like that was the first thing Zimmerman said. In fact, he was asked Martin's race and he responded "I think he's black." It wasn't until later in the call that he saw Martin's face and said "He's a black male."

 

Sorry, most of the peeping toms in my neighborhood wear Yankees caps.

 

Hey, African-Americans can't be racists. It's a rule...

 

Their late owner was so law abiding, wasn't he?

 

Who's Sheaffer?