Anyone else here too depressed about Trayvon Martin to watch reports on the trial?

[applegrove]

I don't feel like being sad/mad right now. The thought of that kid's character being assassinated over the next few months is too much. His parents look so much older than they did. I don't usually watch trial coverage. I zone out. But I actively don't want to get sucked into this one. Guns, and fantasies of acting out heroics with them, are a American disgrace. I want my head in the sand.

[vt_native]

1. I can't watch, either

Just such a bummer that boy was murdered by a racist turd.

[JI7]

2. what makes me angry is if it was a black man who shot a white kid

and all the evidence was the same there would be no question as to guilt. we wouldn't be having this debate .

it would be more like Ariel Castro where we pretty much know he is guilty .

but it's only because Trayvon is black that it's being treated as if he brought it on himself.

[darkangel218]

3. I cant watch the trial either.

I can't look at that murderer smirking.
Today I turned the tv on right when they were showing Trayvons unopened can if ice tea he bought from 7 eleven.

[arely staircase]

4. yeah, his poor parents

watching his dad is so hard because I identify. I am (mostly) white, at least that is how I am received. one of my kids is clearly mixed race (because as we all know, white is something so precious that one bit of something else makes you the other.) as van jones said about the whole hoodie thing, does my kid have to put on a tux to walk to the store?

but I have been glued to the trial. I think John Guy and his team are putting on a hell of a case. his opening statement was one of the most powerful I have ever seen a lawyer deliver. Zimmerman has told so many lies that he is in an impossible situation. If he takes the stand, Guy will eat him alive. If he doesn't, Guy will use his many recorded inconsistencies and rip him limb from limb.

[DevonRex]

5. No. I am so positive about it that I can watch no problem. That young man

and his family will get justice. The prosecutor is a fine attorney. It'll work out.

[displacedtexan]

6. I tried to watch the live stream.

But I got so damned mad that I had to turn it off and read a novel.

[malthaussen]

7. I'll wait for the verdict.

I don't see what watching the agony buys anybody, but to each his own.

-- Mal

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. I will need to cover a civil trial in 2014

I thought it would be good practice. I could not do it. And the 2014 one will be far more technical and far less riveting.

[ecstatic]

9. I'm trying to keep up. I'm pleased with how prepared the prosecution is,

especially John Guy.

I think Zim's defense team is absolutely disgusting, especially the snake oil spewing front man Mark O'Mara. O'Mara puts on a phony "nice guy" act on TV while blowing dog whistles and implying terrible things about Trayvon.