Quote: (07-15-2013 03:55 AM)speeddemon Wrote:
Why do people care about this so much?
I'll bite.
- This is likely one of the biggest cases of the decade, and it is still is not over.
- It has the potential of bringing obviously tense race relations in this country to the brink, though so far the protests have been mostly non-violent.
- Repercussions from the case could possibly reset the precedence of how we deal with personal gun carries in this country and how the law applies in so-called self-defense situations, already extremely volatile issues.
- Not matter what you believe to be true, it is telling of the lengths our government is will go for political gains if they're willing to try a man twice (no matter how they weasel it into being legal). I see it as nothing less than an attack on an individual by the government. It's also alarming how quick people are to jump behind such tactics if the man being victimized is someone they don't like.
- Whether you care or not, it is a historical incident in the making.
- Yet another major instance of corruption and misleading via American media.
- If violence does lash out towards innocent whites because of a situation where no white person was even involved and where the non-white man showed every indication of not being racist against blacks, I daresay the African American community has a lot more to reflect on than the prevalence of violence in their culture. As a white person, I find it very interesting indeed to contemplate and discuss the logic of such misplaced emotion towards a demographic I'm a part of.
- As for African Americans, they have just as much reason to find interest in the case as I do, if not far more if they believe Trayvon was unfairly targeted and murdered.
- Many men, though not all, like to discuss politics.
I can understand if you don't personally want to discuss these things, but I'm not entirely sure why it would bother you that others do, as it is obviously interesting on many different levels. It's strange when men pop into other mens' conversations to purport that they don't care about the topic of discussion.
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