To believe this story—where Trayvon was the aggressor, a teenage boy more interested in fighting a stranger than getting back home to see if LeBron James, Derrick Rose, Carmelo Anthony, and Dwyane Wade could lead the Eastern Conference All-Stars in a comeback, that he brought Zimmerman close to death with his bare hands—is to believe the stories white supremacy has always told about black boys and men in America. You don’t need to hate black men in order to believe these stories. Black men’s humanity only need be invisible to you, so you never question where these stories came from and why
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The people who say "we don't really know happened" are relying on these centuries old stories of black men to justify their murders and they don't even know it. Why don't people know these stories? America does not teach history that makes it look bad.
