Trayvon Martin was just "standing his ground", as was his right under Florida law.

He was minding his own business, unarmed, when he was followed and threatened by an armed stranger who wore no uniform, carried no badge, who never even claimed to have identified himself, and was not authorized, (in fact, was expressly forbidden by authority), to challenge him.

If you were in Martin's shoes wouldn't you have done exactly what he did, or at least, had wished you had the courage to do so? You must think so, or you wouldn't have felt manslaughter was a just verdict.

What Al Sharpton and all those motherfucking PC types said or did or thought is totally irrelevant. Martin was already dead long before they heard what happened. And nothing Martin was or did in his life prior to this incident has any bearing on the case whatsoever. You cannot form a judgement of this incident based solely on your distaste for those you loathe for totally differnt reasons.

Listen, Rob, I have no problem with the verdict. Zimmerman got a fair trial; the prosecution did its best but under the law could not convince a jury, beyond a reasonable doubt, of their version of events. After all, the only witness that knows what actually happened was the accused. The law did what it is supposed to do. If I had been on that jury, I probably would have voted with them, based on the evidence, the arguments presented, and the instructions of the judge.

I can accept that, and I can live with it. But maybe we can prevent future incidents like this from spiraling out of control. But under no circumstances was it Martin's fault. It simply wasn't. He did not go out armed that night with the intention of challenging a perfect stranger. Zimmerman did.