I normally stay away from the fray. You know, the morass.
But suffice it to say that last night's verdict in the Zimmerman trial was a gross miscarriage of justice. There's no other way to say it.
An unarmed teenager gets pursued by an armed man (even after the armed man was explicitly told NOT to pursue the teenager), and is shot and killed by the armed man. If Zimmerman had stayed in the car, Martin would still be alive. There's no way around it. Armed man pursues and ultimately kills unarmed teenager. How is there not anything wrong with that? Yet, he walks free.
If people wonder why there is such apathy towards our government and voting, such distrust in our justice system, especially among minorities, look no further than what happened last night.
As an older sister to two young black men, it scares me. It really scares and sickens me that this is America.
And we dare to say "with liberty and justice for all."
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