A lot of people have been arguing about this case lately and there has been many protest about Zimmerman being found not guilty. To view this case fairly, you have to put any views of racism away. Many people my age has been angered over this case but what I think they don't understand is that they have to be rational. I don't know all the details of this case and no one thoroughly does except Zimmerman himself, so I cannot take any sides on this one but I can state my opinion. If you think about it rationally, if it is at night and we see a "black" person walking, I'm sure that none of us are going to be like, "I should go say hi", our first instinct is to walk away because we think that he could be dangerous. But I also think that if a kid is walking alone at night and feel that someone is following him, his first instinct is to defend himself. Again, I cannot take any sides for I do not know all the details but I think that none of us can judge, only offer our opinions. I offer my condolences to the parents of Martin but I also think that Zimmerman will never go out in public and feel the same way again, whether guilty or not. I hope that on future cases like this one, we can look at it with a clear eye and not use our history of racism to change the way we view the details.
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