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Originally Posted by lostalex
i've been followng the story since it first happened though, and at first they were describing him as "white" on CNN and all major news sources. And all of the commentary was about this "white" guy profiling a black teen. Since then they havn't been focusing so much on his race. They don't point out that the accussed is hispanic, instead they are just talking about racism against blacks in general. So why arn't they targeting HISPANIC racism against blacks?
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Well, admittedly I haven't been following the case, I only heard about it recently, I take your point but I don't think it should detract from the point that this poor kid was gunned down simply because he was black and someone thought he was suspicious because of that.