Are you your skin color?
The acquittal of George Zimmerman in the U.S. and the noted legal case, as a result of Zimmerman shooting the 17-year-old Trayvon Martin to death in 2012, raises so many more questions than it answers and the verdict truly gives me the chills. I wasn't there that night when Zimmerman found the unarmed Martin "acting suspiciously" and therefore followed the young boy, not vice versa, even though emergency personnel in contact with Zimmerman urged him not to follow the teenager. I did not see with my own eyes how Trayvon Martin behaved when he walked home with the hood of his sweatshirt pulled over his head to cover from the rain, that night in February in Florida. Some might say that I therefore should not speak. But there is reason for me to speak. Trayvon Martin was black. Zimmerman is not. Martin lived in the United States. I, currently, live in Sweden. My white skin color does not mean that I don't see the color scale racism that exists and dominates the world...