Originally Posted by
shenon1
It was acutally skittles and arizona tea, two ingredients for purple dank and while it is certainly possible racism was or was not a motive it is also certainly possible that it was or wasn't intended for dank.
Oh puhleeze. Water is an innocuous ingredient in how many nefarious substances? - nonetheless, we don't have sanctions against carrying water around. It's not like he was carrying a codeine-based cough syrup, which happens to be the main ingredient, the active ingredient.
Originally Posted by
Tchiowa
You blew it with that example. You are aware, or maybe not, that it was later proven that Zimmerman didn't know the race of Martin when he first started following him and that Martin initiated the fight. Racism was simply not part of the equation. Though a lot of people tried to make it part of the issue.
Nonsense - that was never "proven". The simple fact is, it was never PROVEN who started the fight, and frankly, it is entirely dependent upon what you define as "starting the fight". One civilian tailing another civilian who has every right to be in a public area is inherently a confrontational, threatening act, and THAT was the beginning of whatever fight subsequently occurred.
The issue is not what he knew when he began to follow Martin - it's what he knew when he confronted him. And by then, he knew he was confronting a black male. Who was unarmed, who had as much right to be there as Zimmerman, and whom Zimmerman subsequently shot, after ignoring the instructions of the police dispatcher NOT to confront him.
The fact is, Zimmerman initiated the fight by following someone who had every right to walk in the neighborhood without being tailed and confronted by a cop-wannabe.