In this article a young 17-year-old name
Trayvon Martin went to the nearest convenient store to buy a bag of skittles
and a bottle of ice tea. George Zimmerman the neighborhood watchmen saw a
teenage boy in a hoody which was Trayvon Martin. He took it as a threat and
called the police asking if he could fire his gun, however, they said he was
not allowed to shoot anyone. He ignored the police and went towards the
17-year-old boy and fired his gun. The social media took this action as a
racist attempt to kill the young boy. Now people all around the U.S are
protesting towards this horrible racism act.
Prejudice can lead to many horrible think but
mostly to injustice because if one person doesn’t like someone that person won’t
always agree with him or would try to harm him in some way. Like in this case
George Zimmerman felt prejudice to Trayvon Martin and that leaded Zimmerman to kill
Martin. There were no cameras or any witnesses so he claimed that he acted in
self-defense.
Some of each individual’s responsibility is
to learn about others customs and cultures so they do not become prejudice and
therefor their innocents will not be harmed. There wont be anything against
each individual to harm each other. Another responsibility as an individual would be
to protect the innocent, it doesn’t matter if it’s someone you know or someone
you don’t, you should always to the right thing and protect the innocent.
Many people are afraid of something they don’t
even understand making them act the way George Zimmerman did on February 26th.
He didn’t understand that Martin was more than just a black person in a hoody;
he was a human being that had a bright future ahead of him. They way Zimmerman
acted not only affected Martins feature it also made his parents loose a son
and his brother to loose his only brother.
People are blinded by racism and discrimination
that they don’t see what even really matters. Like if Martin was a girl I think
he would have had higher chances of survival. Its horrible in what people keep
in there minds about other people, instead of wondering if the person is a good
and polite or if he was rude and uncivilized they wonder and judge them by
there color. Its messed up that its counted suspicious if a black man is
walking on the road and its normal for a white man to do.
Zimmerman made a fool out of him self, its
sad that Trayvon Martin is dead today and George Zimmerman is still out there
not being arrested for he has done. He should have been arrested a month ago
for the racism act he just pulled of. I hate that we live in a world that
people still can’t get along with each other as one.