If Trayvon had been chased down and shot the guy chasing him I would be standing just where I am in stating he had that right. Good for him if he had someone with a gun chasing him down and he felt his life was in danger. Now the same goes the other way. If getting ones head beat into the ground caused Zimmerlooser to think he had to defend himself then so be it as well.

Race, color or creed has nothing to do with it. No matter how much you wish it was about racism and would like to make it so. Only racism in this is those who feel the need to make it a race issue. Trying to tie anyone who states people have the right to protect themselves with racists.

The truely racial component is the fact that a black man could have chased down a half hispanic/half white kid and shot him in the exact manner when the kid was pounding his head into the ground and it would have never made it out of the local paper. If you heard about it you would have thought nothing of it and likely stated he had the right to do so. My oppinion would be the same but since it was the other way around it is national news and we are on our way to riots in the streets. I guess we are still not post-racial in this country.