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<blockquote data-quote="RweFreem" data-source="post: 3279877" data-attributes="member: 99457">I feel I&#039;ve put a lot of people off posting what I did earlier, and I hope Giovanni reconsiders his decision.&nbsp; FWIW I feel Travon was profiled for the way he looked and I still feel that is part the fault of a subculture of the young multi racial drug/gangsta stereotype. so my advise is if your going to walk around dressed in a hoodie in July then you should probably be mindful of someone perhaps being a bit suspicious and cautious of your intentions.&nbsp; It would serve everyone to act civil and introduce your self with some sort of positive greeting that would relieve any misunderstandings.&nbsp; Had this been accomplished I&#039;m sure the outcome of Travon&#039;s and Zimmerman&#039;s encounter would have been much different.As far as what&#039;s going on personally with the local thing, well it&#039;s going to be a long process, I still have some trust issues as you can imagine, but I&#039;m working on that.&nbsp; Recently my business has been robbed and I&#039;m pretty sure the person who did it is someone who was close and knew what they wanted, basically it was a couple barrels of copper wire I was going to scrap, they could have took a lot more so I suspect it was an inside job.Anyway if anyone has a problem with what I&#039;ve posted feel free to address it, I&#039;m a big boy I can take it.&nbsp; One thing I&#039;d like to point out is that the public discussion in the media has taken on the same tone as this one, so were not alone in how we are handling this situation.&nbsp; Some African American reporters were making similar points as was I, of course they were vilified as well.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RweFreem, post: 3279877, member: 99457"] I feel I've put a lot of people off posting what I did earlier, and I hope Giovanni reconsiders his decision. FWIW I feel Travon was profiled for the way he looked and I still feel that is part the fault of a subculture of the young multi racial drug/gangsta stereotype. so my advise is if your going to walk around dressed in a hoodie in July then you should probably be mindful of someone perhaps being a bit suspicious and cautious of your intentions. It would serve everyone to act civil and introduce your self with some sort of positive greeting that would relieve any misunderstandings. Had this been accomplished I'm sure the outcome of Travon's and Zimmerman's encounter would have been much different. As far as what's going on personally with the local thing, well it's going to be a long process, I still have some trust issues as you can imagine, but I'm working on that. Recently my business has been robbed and I'm pretty sure the person who did it is someone who was close and knew what they wanted, basically it was a couple barrels of copper wire I was going to scrap, they could have took a lot more so I suspect it was an inside job. Anyway if anyone has a problem with what I've posted feel free to address it, I'm a big boy I can take it. One thing I'd like to point out is that the public discussion in the media has taken on the same tone as this one, so were not alone in how we are handling this situation. Some African American reporters were making similar points as was I, of course they were vilified as well. [/QUOTE]

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