Something I’ve been watching for the last month is the Trayvon Martin case. A lot of hate has been thrown around. Smear campaigns on both sides. What really gets me, besides the obvious, is that when trying to deface Trayvon they use his history of getting in trouble at school as proof that he was a violent thug and a bad person. As many people know, I was pretty infamous for my problems in school. I was almost expelled for truancy and tardiness. Does this mean that I deserve to be shot and killed?
I don’t even know where to begin talking about this. There are articles condemning and others praising Zimmerman. I really don’t know what to think about it all. A 17-year-old is dead and it would seem that no one knows why.
Unbeknownst to many, I am a coward. I’d like to believe that when it really matters I can be brave and I won’t take shit from anyone. But as of today and the last few weeks I’ve lost almost every inch of backbone. I don’t really know what happened. Trying to get a job just makes me want to crawl under a rock and die. I was unprepared for this pre-life crisis. I don’t know what to do with myself really.
I watched a film today that really upset me. It was a great character study and beautifully shot, it’s just the content that got to me. It was like watching my parents.
