The Injustice of Trayvon Martin
It’s what you see everywhere, it’s what you’ll hear anywhere: it’s racism. In the 2010s, racism was still prevalent despite how far the United States had come from slavery. On February 26, 2012, a white neighborhood watchman shot and killed and unarmed 17-year-old. George Zimmerman, the watchman, claimed self-defense against the black teenager; he was never arrested. This sparked a huge movement across the nation, which would later be called the Black Lives Matter Movement. The United States is not a place of social justice because Trayvon Martin was murdered due to his race, his killer was not arrested, and in a deeper sense, the system didn’t rightfully deal with this situation. For years, African Americans …show more content…
Before the murder of Trayvon, there had been multiple cases of African Americans murdered due to their race. The murder of Trayvon Martin sparked a movement because the murderer, George Zimmerman, was never arrested. The Florida jury found Zimmerman “not guilty of second-degree murder”. Protests broke out not only in Florida, but throughout the whole country. The citizens of America were not happy with the injustice occurring in Florida. How could someone coldly murder someone with no threat and not be charged? The answer lies in the faults of the system of the …show more content…
Trayvon Martin’s death was an injustice due to three different factors. To start, Trayvon was racially profiled on his walk home. The white neighborhood watchman felt threatened by the unarmed boy, then fatally shot him. The killer was never arrested or found guilty in court for his actions. The state found him innocent because it was pretty impossible to prove he was guilty, as long as he claimed it was self-defense, allowing Zimmerman to return to his life and place a bigger threat on each African American individual, giving them the thought that a white man can kill a black man with no
It’s what you see everywhere, it’s what you’ll hear anywhere: it’s racism. In the 2010s, racism was still prevalent despite how far the United States had come from slavery. On February 26, 2012, a white neighborhood watchman shot and killed and unarmed 17-year-old. George Zimmerman, the watchman, claimed self-defense against the black teenager; he was never arrested. This sparked a huge movement across the nation, which would later be called the Black Lives Matter Movement. The United States is not a place of social justice because Trayvon Martin was murdered due to his race, his killer was not arrested, and in a deeper sense, the system didn’t rightfully deal with this situation. For years, African Americans …show more content…
Before the murder of Trayvon, there had been multiple cases of African Americans murdered due to their race. The murder of Trayvon Martin sparked a movement because the murderer, George Zimmerman, was never arrested. The Florida jury found Zimmerman “not guilty of second-degree murder”. Protests broke out not only in Florida, but throughout the whole country. The citizens of America were not happy with the injustice occurring in Florida. How could someone coldly murder someone with no threat and not be charged? The answer lies in the faults of the system of the …show more content…
Trayvon Martin’s death was an injustice due to three different factors. To start, Trayvon was racially profiled on his walk home. The white neighborhood watchman felt threatened by the unarmed boy, then fatally shot him. The killer was never arrested or found guilty in court for his actions. The state found him innocent because it was pretty impossible to prove he was guilty, as long as he claimed it was self-defense, allowing Zimmerman to return to his life and place a bigger threat on each African American individual, giving them the thought that a white man can kill a black man with no