  Your Mail 8-4-13: Zimmerman not at fault ... Individual rights
assured  2:02 PM, Aug. 1, 2013  |  Comments   • Filed Under
Regarding the Aug. 1 letter to The Town Talk from Leonard Ford
Jr. about the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman trial, which
acquitted Zimmerman of all charges.  Ford asks for this verdict
to be a "rallying call for us to commit to the struggle for
equity for all." While I have personally come to the side many
times on racial issues mostly in favor of blacks, I believe that
this verdict was a correct one. I saw Martin as the aggressor
and Zimmerman as basically a good person, not only as someone
who isn't a racist, but someone who has a decent history of
having good relations with blacks. I saw Zimmerman as trying to
do something about a bad problem involving break-ins and
robberies in his neighborhood. I saw Martin as a teenager whose
behavior and life were definitely in a downward spiral.  Martin
surprised Zimmerman and was putting a pretty good beating on
Zimmerman. Zimmerman was obvio