Forum Overview :: Motherfucking News :: I've been trying to figure out how to think about what's going on

[quote name="Vested Id"]I felt like Zimmerman was in the right given the evidence and it looked like I was in the far minority - everyone knows he did it out of zealous racism and he's a complete piece of shit. Part of the problem is how these stories develop. He started off as some typical Floridian cracker then *plot twist* he's Latino. There's been nothing but plot twists in the Ferguson case, but maybe a lot of the social and political antics are less important than the fact he was unarmed when he was gunned down, and it's not hard to imagine why. St. Louis is an incredibly depressed area with a ton of black people. That's the obvious and persistant subtext that you can choose to ignore in this case, just like you couldn't ignore it during Hurricane Katrina. So IMO FoK is spot on.[/quote]