Ricardo Bonilla ICB blog #2

Trayvon Martin’s killer associated “black dress” (much like legislators associate black dress) as criminal.  George Zimmerman was nurtured as addressing the typical stereotype “black person dress” as delinquent type.  Society in general supports the theory of nature versus nurture, in the case of the martin assassin society had supported this, television news reporters often use images that disproportionately highlight black perpetrators.  Police often profile black males or the stereotype black male dress many of this can be supported by the NYPD “stop and frisk” practice which stopped six-hundred eighty-four thousand people in 2011 black and Latinos made up 87 percent, clearly showing society wrongfully ruling profiles against blacks and Latinos.  Most of society has the attitude of 1) either knowing black people will be discriminated against or 2) black people know they will be discriminated against throughout their life.  George Zimmerman’s point of view was much nurtured by society, he saw a young black man walking around in the neighborhood and responded as many people would assume, a criminal walking amongst the crowd, he killed Trayvon and assumed any black man was there to cause him harm.  People need to start perceiving black people as criminals and then from there society will start to change their negative views on the group into positive, and hopefully no other tragedy like the Trayvon assassination will happen again.