there are a lot of fucked up things happening in the world recently but for some reason this trayvon martin thing really got to me in particular

i was thinking about him this morning - how there was nothing unusual about him he was just a normal kid and if he was white he would still be alive and that’s as clear cut as it gets

and absolutely no one can deny that if a black man got out of his car and
killed an unarmed white boy that man would be in jail for the rest of his life - no one would even think about his motives the way we think about zimmerman. no matter how much we hate him, we do think about him, about why he did it, about the fact that he was a horrible racist, about what was going through his sick mind. but if a black man killed a white boy, there wouldn’t even be any of that. he’d be in prison in a second and (aside from wanting him dead and using him as justification for racism) no one would give him another thought - their thoughts would be only with the murdered boy

our thoughts should be with trayvon martin and his loved ones - further victims of this world’s rampant racism, the existence of which a shocking number of people continue to deny