Originally Posted by signupdamnit

You speak of him being a thug and having a history of petty crimes but read this link on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooti...Trayvon_Martin

He was NEVER even charged with a crime in his life let alone convicted. He has a school disciplinary record but it's all just Bart Simpson type stuff. Pot, Graffiti, and being tardy. In one instance a search by the school showed him to have women's jewelry and a screwdriver. But he was never charged with anything because there was no evidence he actually did anything wrong.

When I was 17 I was probably much worse than the above. We did pot all the time, we drank like crazy - sometimes all night, I think I missed 50 days my senior year. I was probably suspended over 10 times. I also fucked a bit with some school equipment in some minor ways. And maybe if school officials searched me at times they would have found some weird stuff. Maybe even a screwdriver. So what? Chances are if I had a screwdriver it was for fixing my car or some other thing. Big deal. It didn't mean I was a burglar or a thief. I grew up fairly normal. I don't have a criminal record. I've never been arrested. I'm not a "thug". So why is Trayvon? Because he was a young black kid who acted like many 17 year olds do?

To hear some of you talk you would think Trayvon Martin had a record of dealing crack, murdering people in drive by shootings, assaults, and burglary. But that's not the case at all.