The real kicker came when Zimmerman accused African-Americans of rushing to judgement and asked everyone who he claims rushed to judgement to apologize to him. Zimmerman said, “I can’t guess to what their motives are. I would just ask for an apology. I mean if I did something that was wrong. I would apologize.”
His statement was very telling in that since Zimmerman himself never apologized specifically for shooting Trayvon Martin, he must not think that shooting him was wrong.
Listen, here's the deal. I want us to focus on the system that makes it possible for a child to be murdered and no one to be punished. A system that allows the color of someone's skin to be cause to read them as dangerous. I want us to focus on a police investigation that drug tested the body of a dead teenager instead of the man who admitted immediately to shooting him. I want us to think of Trayvon as one of many, to look at his death as part of a tragic pattern. I find the whole damn system guilty.
But that said. That said. It is very. very. very. difficult not to direct my anger towards this one man, George ZImmerman, who killed a high schooler without cause and shows no remorse.
