Trayvon Martin (Daleshawn)

ICB Blog 2

            Nature versus nurture plays a role in the debate of the Trayvon Martin murder. Saying that the nature of Zimmerman could be that he always thought that a person walking the streets with a hood on is a criminal. Maybe he always thought that a lot of black people were criminals or drug dealers, and other things like that. Zimmerman also could always have thoughts that people he did not know or trust was or is a bad person. He could also be racist against many different races that is not the same or similar to his own race. Zimmerman assumed that Trayvon Martin wanted to harm, rob, or kill him just because Trayvon had a hood on and he looked suspicious to Zimmerman. He also assumed that Trayvon was up to no good or planning to do something he was not supposed to do. The society sees this event as an act of stereotyping. The reason why they think that is that Trayvon Martin was known as a good kid never done anything wrong, stayed out of trouble, and did what he was told. Just saying, if the environment that they were in had less crimes going on maybe Zimmerman probably would have not killed Trayvon. Zimmerman’s environment that made him kill was probably a violent environment that made him start to kill in the first place. The society could help prevent things like this by telling the children to not be out at night by your-self or not at all. They could also help by telling the children to not wear their hoods at night, and if they do wear them be alert of your surroundings or who is around you.