I've been watching the story develop of young Trayvon Martin, killed in Florida with a bag of skittles in his hand. Newscasters are throwing around the word "racist" like it's a basketball searching for a basket. Bounce--"Was the shooter a racist?" Bounce, Pass--"I'm his best friend and I know he is not a racist." Bounce "Racial slur" bounce--bounce--bounce. It makes my head hurt.
It's too easy to accuse someone of being a racist and too easy to deny that we are one. There is no way to prove that a person is a racist and no way to prove that someone is not.
Trayvon was not killed because his shooter, Zimmerman, was a racist, but Trayvon was killed because Trayvon was black. He was killed because he had dark skin and met a suspicious, angry man at the wrong time and in the wrong place. The killer-Zimmerman prejudged Trayvon's intentions as evil based on how Trayvon looked. He made very quick and erroneous assumptions. While Zimmerman can deny being racist, he cannot in any way deny being prejudiced.
In this time, In this place, let's all come together and agree that the only race is the human race. There is no such thing as black race, white race, Asian race. Race was a hypothesis that has never been supported by real science. The idea of classifying humans into races was to justify the subordination of one race over another.
We have different cultures and come from different places on this ever-shrinking planet. Even within our own blood relations, we have different shades of skin and different colors and textures of hair, but this is not indicative of race. It is indicative of humanity and it's greatness.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/21/justice/florida-teen-shooting/index.html?hpt=hp_c2
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