While I do take solace knowing this piece of shyt will spend the majority of the rest of his life in jail, the fact that he was not charged with murder is just another slap in the face for us - black males. When I was young I used to wonder why the national media never seemed to have huge stories about missing, young black girls. Typically the news would always have some "white girl missing" story that would last a few weeks or months, but I never saw black girls on this. I knew black girls were getting kidnapped, I'd see the reports on my local news reports. But nationally, no coverage.
But what I didn't understand as a kid or teen is that black life is not cherished or respected, as white life is. And it's not just white people who don't cherish black life - we don't cherish our own lives, we continue to kill ourselves or other blacks, etc.
When these cases come up, the automatic response is victim blaming. Oh, he was wearing a hoodie. Or in this case: he'd still be alive if he wasn't listening to music so loud. These are automatic thoughts for many white people. "Racism couldn't possibly be the answer, after all we have a black president...therefore it must be the hoodie, the music, the tinted windows, the sagging pants, etc"
But consider this brehs: we're also bred to think like whites, with respect to the negative perception of black males. When I was young, my mom told me not to touch shyt in stores if I wasn't buying. My mom wouldn't let me wear hoodies at night. My mom told me if a cop pulls me over, I had to keep my hands on the wheel and not move until told to. I was bred from a young age to act like a suspect 24/7, as are millions of black boys. This mentality doesn't just impact us, it impacts whites.
This shyt is going to keep happening, and let's not forget the other perception: we're caking off the white man's hard work, we're takers not makers, etc. So whenever these stories come up there are more than a few white people who automatically think "who cares, he was a thug/taker/Medicaid/welfare."
For the nikkas who would take this out of context.
Should be what we have been discussing yesterday and them some. Dude has a whole ustream weeks before the Trayvon Martin case was over saying that Zimmerman was going to be not guilty and broke the shyt down and why.
