The thing that has struck me the most in reading posts, blogs, discussions, responses etc. about the Trayvon Martin case is how defensive so many people are who are posting in support of his murderer. They will say any statement, deflect any discussion, go off topic with irrelevant examples, attack and blame everybody from Trayvon Martin, his family, his friends, our President anyone just so that they do not have to look at, or critically examine their own lack of humanity in the untimely death and murder of a kid just barely out of childhood at the hands of an adult who should have handled the situation with more restraint.
Best case scenario, and I personally think this is a stretch, is that the murderer of Trayvon Martin, set the wheels in motion for the ultimate tragedy. He obviously racially profiled Trayvon, and took the tall lanky African American kid for a big, bad black guy looking for trouble. I don't know exactly what happened , no one really does except for his murderer.
If his murderer were a man of character, he would stand up and say "I take responsibility for what happened that night". "As an adult and as a trained individual I should have handled things differently, I took a life, a young life and for that I will be forever despairing, in fact I sometimes just want to die." " I ask for forgiveness and stand ready to take responsibility for my actions." This would be the character of a mature adult man.
A murderer, ask any cop, will say:
"I didn't do it. It wasn't my fault." " He made me do it. He was going to kill me. "It was self-defense, He was threatening me, He started it."
I don't believe Trayvon Martin's murderer for a second.
Justice for Trayvon, for his family and for all the African American families who are afraid to let their teenage sons out at night, for fear they will run into a real life All-American nightmare!