Trayvon Martin

I'm sorry. I told myself I wasn't going to talk about this because honestly I think it is all very stupid and I would make a lot of black people mad if they heard my thoughts on this. Anyways, my cousin is finally asleep and I am going to quickly type this so I can go watch a movie on her iPad. (Yeah, a four year old with an iPad and I don't even have a phone. What has this world come to? I am soooo not about to get into that.)

Okay so Zimmerman got off. I don't think he should have gotten off but I don't think he should have received the full sentence for second - degree murder. Maybe something less but not that.

And my mother, my older brother, and I had like a 30 minute talk about this. I am quickly going to type this out in points. It would be easier and I can make sure I cover everything I want.

1. So I want to know why people are speaking out after the verdict when don't you think if you spoke put during the trial that maybe it could have changed the verdict. I mean why are all these people starting to tell how unfair it is when they could have and should have been protesting this earlier. I mean really.

2. Oh. These protest are anything but peaceful. I mean these people are acting a fool and then trying to say it was peaceful.

3. My mother pointed this out. She wants to know why these people are messing up their own neighborhoods instead of messing up somebody else's. She said, "If you are mad at someone then wouldn't you go mess up their stuff instead of your own?" And that right there was like yeah.

4. Next, the people in Florida aren't even acting up like the rest of the country. I mean they are calm and collected but the rest of the country is burning flags and trashing neighborhoods. For real y'all.

5. Another thing is, why are African - Americans getting upset when they promote the lifestyle of being a "thug" or a "gangster". They make movies and movies about it showing how much money and fun they have and these rappers rap about talking about how they living it up. So when a young black male walks outside the house looking like that you can't expect the world not to upset because the stereotype is that they are dangerous and black people go and exploit it. This doesn't mean that I think Zimmerman should have shot based on that stereotype, it means that black people can't get upset and start saying things like how come we can't dress like this? Dressing like this doesn't mean we are dangerous. It's annoying that they exploit this stereotype but when people try to stereotype them they get upset.

6. I brought this issue up. While everybody was worrying about this case, The Supreme Court was going over the law of allowing African - Americans to vote and are talking about how it is outdated and something like that. I only know this because I watch a lot of MTV, Fuse, and VH1 and they have those little headlines going across the screen at the bottom. People are paying more attention to this case than to something that could change a lot of people lives. I am not saying that people shouldn't have been paying attention to it but they can't not pay attention or talk about the other issues.

7. My brother brought up the fact that this case shouldn't have revolved around race, but it did. The world revolves around race and we can't change that. It's apart of every one's life and no matter what we do or say we can't change the fact that race was the whole reason people got into this and cared so much.

So that's about seven things I think people need to think over before they get all upset and go trash more of their own neighborhoods. Yes, Zimmerman should have been charged with something and what he did was wrong. He should have waited for the police. But I can't change the past, but I can move towards the future. (I got my entire life planned out today. Yay!)  But that is a whole different thing.