Trayvon Martin's death made hoodies a political statement

     17-year-Old Tryavon Martin was killed walking home from the store buying a drink and skittles. He was killed because he had on a hoodie, which made him look ‘suspicious’. Organization all over the country and walks was held making a statement about racial profiling. Chuck Williams stated that, “A white boy wearing a hoodie he’s a college student, a black boy wearing a hoodie is a professional thug”. This shows that black males wearing hoodies are being judged automatically as criminals or suspicious. On Friday when I went downtown there were so many people down there. At Love Park they had protesting against hoodies being a sign. There were people wearing hoodies that said on it “Do I look suspicious?” and having skittle wrappers taped on it. I think its unfair that they didn’t arrest the man who shot and killed Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman. It is a sign of racism because people always think black males in hoodies look suspicious but white males don’t. You shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. It was good and nice that they held protest all over the country for Trayvon wearing a hoodie when he was killed saying he looked suspicious but people and children get killed everyday and it isn’t even paid attention to. All over social networks like Facebook and Twitter many people were posting up tweets about Trayvon Martins death. Last week all people talked about was Kony 2012, now this week is Trayvon, what is going to be next weeks? I think that people are just jumping from topic to topic that’s in the news.

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