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Originally Posted by djchameleon
See the thing is he did call the cops being neighborhood watch and all but they told him to just stay in his car and watch but he chose not to. He decided to take actions into his own hands and start creeping up behind him. If someone you don't know starts stalking you, wouldn't you be alert and on guard?
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Yea, and I agree with that. Has more to do with Zimmerman being an idiot than a racist. Also, they didn't tell him to stay in his car. They asked him if he was following him, to which he replied, yes. They said "you don't need to do that".
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Also when I mentioned profiling, I mean even down the smallest of things such as going into a store and having the clerk watch you while shopping. Or walking past a car and having a lady clutch her purse and double check to make sure that the alarm is set. Also, even getting nervous looks when you enter an elevator just for being a black person.
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Let me let you in on a little something.
I live around a majority of black folks in my apartment complex. But I don't fear for my goods or my life. Why? Because I know it's not a high-crime neighborhood. I walk freely here, without fear.
When I drive through the scummiest part of town every morning to work, and afternoon back from it, I lock my car door and keep an open eye. Sure, it's 95 percent black there, but it's not about that. It's about all the crime there. It isn't my fault that the ones perpetrating the crimes are black. I don't care if it was 100 percent white. It's a known bad area, and I'm cognizant of that. It's called using common sense.
If I was a store clerk in a bad part of town, or actually, just basically any service station really, I'd be on guard no matter what. If the place has gotten hit a lot by thieves or otherwise, it doesn't matter who comes into the place, you keep an eye out. It's common sense.
Somehow, though, I doubt that individuals that feel profiled in these scenarios are actually going out and ensuring that every other race isn't getting the same treatment. People only notice it when it's them under the microscope. Can you definitively say that others aren't being watched as well?
Maybe we should first confirm that indeed, only blacks are being viewed as suspicious. Then, if that's the case, let's confirm whether or not there's an actual reason for that beyond "Oh, he must just hate blacks".
But I do agree on one thing. People are FAR more scared of events than those events are likely to happen.
People in general think the world is more dangerous than any time before, when in fact it is safer, and crime has lowered.
You can blame mass media for this. People are going to have the perception that they need to be more careful than they actually do, when all they're hearing about is crime, crime, crime. Even though the perception actually contradicts the facts.