Scans_Daily

I live in Florida, but I'm *thankfully* not from Florida (no offence).

With regards to the rest of your comment, I've heard all those same arguments not too long ago and unfortunately those arguments ignore the bigger problem at hand. Racism at large treats white as the "dominant" race and people of a darker skin colour--particularly African American men--are regarded as "dangerous" by default. What happened with Trayvon was a cut and dry case of racial profiling that resulted in the loss of a young boy's life. The fact that Zimmerman was not arrested on site and jailed was an act of racism on the side of authorities as well, because should it have been the other way around, if Trayvon had pulled the trigger, he would have surely been arrested and jailed for it that same day. The added bonus that Zimmerman's attorney had to cite Zimmerman's black friends as 'proof' he wasn't racist was in itself racist.

Obviously institutionalised racism isn't unique to Florida, but it is the one state out of the two I've lived in where I'm constantly reminded of how 'dangerous' predominantly black neighbourhoods are, how predominantly black schools have a reputation of being delinquent schools, how black and hispanic men and women are the most consistent victims of senseless violence, and so on. This isn't even going into how the Florida media, government, and even Florida's school system contribute to the problem.

I don't know what part of Florida you live in, but that's been my experience living in Central Florida.