The threat of being profiled will stop

[applegrove]

kids from reaching for the stars if the whole country doesn't fight back against this jury decision. I mean we are asking black youth to have the maturity to negotiate life and death situations before they are adults if they have to figure out and make alright the fears inside of white people wherever white people are found. This is bad information and as such terrible for teenagers and their developing brains to have to live it. I'm trying to think of something along the same lines white teens have to face. I come up with the rejection of lgbt youth. But nothing else.

[JDPriestly]

1. I remember being 17. I was still a child and far away from home.

I remember one of my daughters at 17. Made lots of mistakes but turned out to be a wonderful person.

Trayvon Martin had so much potential. He was just a child.

Legally, we consider people to be adults at the age of 18. But they aren't.

I wasn't really an adult until I was 30.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

2. There is a LOT of sympathy from white people over what happened.