The verdict for the Zimmerman trial is in: not guilty. I am shocked and disappointed because I feel the justice system failed Trayvon Martin. I don't want to harbor hate in my heart for Zimmerman or any other White person, but it is hard. Someone wrote:
How can a justice system fail you, if it was not meant for you?
As a African American woman, I don't feel safe in my own country. YES, in the country where I pay my taxes and I am and law abiding citizen, I don't feel safe. At this moment, I feel that if someone wants to violate my rights, they can. I know to non-Black Americans, I may sound paranoid and a bit of a conspiracy theorist but the unsettling fact remains that being Black in the USA makes you a second rate citizen.
I detest writing that race and racism are still issues in 2013 but it is true. I don't really understand this judicial system or this country anymore.
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