[quote=briansd1]The rules of neighborhood watch don’t allow following suspects and patroling with guns. You watch and report supicious activities to police.

Zimmerman was a cop wannabe and a vigilante.

Zimmerman claims a broken nose and injuries from the attack. But then he goes into hiding so that his injuries miraculously heal before the reappers in public.

To me this reeks of a retired judge doing all he can to protect his son. The family and their “friends” are working overtime to avoid Zimmerman going to prison.

I used to live in Florida and I still go there often. As ocrenter said, in the South, racism is part of the culture. Full integration in law was not fully achieved until the late 60s/1970, not that long ago. Things will not really change until those who are born before 1970 pass away. It will take several more generations.

I know a White English Canadian family who own a vacation home in Florida. They are nice people. The old man is an engineer and his wife is a teacher.

Of their kids, one daughter married an Indian professional. One son married a Laotian woman. But they are not happy with this and keep on telling their kids they should’ve married their own kinds. They would say things like “it’s so nice back in Canada, there are no Blacks there, we are among our own people.”[/quote]

Except you have one problem that kinda contradicts what you would like to pigeonhole this case into (white versus black thing)… I mean, is the dude really white? Does it really matter?