[laker20]

Does that make the real facts of the case any less real? Does that make Martin's screams any less real? Does that make the gun shot any less real?

If you go back through my posts, then you require no more than 6-year-old reasoning to see that at no point do I insinuate that this is not horrific tragedy. You can try to turn my words into something they're not if you choose. However, my point since my first post was that the American public (all political parties) continues to allow tragedies such as this to be exploited to further an agenda that's unrelated to the event. Somehow the facts aren't important, the details are skewed, truth takes a back seat to "so called" justice.

Let's hypothetically reverse this shooting. Say a black man shot and killed a "White-Hispanic" young man. It would be no less tragic, but would we have a major story? What if (in this reversed scenario) we did exactly what Sharpton and others are calling for?............charge and convict the shooter on the few sketchy facts that seem to be available. What if the KKK was calling for the head of the shooter? We'd have Sharpton and others pleading on behalf of the shooter on how unjust this is and how a black man is allowed the same due process that a white man has, that a black man is being prematurely tried because of skin color.

Neither scenario is right and neither scenario is just for both individuals. Yet somehow we quantify that one persons desire for perceived justice takes presidence over the others right to the same.

I never once said that this case didn't matter, that the loss of the young man's life wasn't tragic. It's just sad that we continue to allow the media (conservative & liberal), to persuade the facts when we know that none of what they have to say is without bias. Individually we need to quit being mindless followers with no reasoning and become leaders who seek truth.