I think that trying to divine George Zimmerman's motives or racism in the Trayvon Martin shooting is ultimately futile and pointless (which is why the media wants us to dwell on it). The point is the racist assumptions behind these "stand your ground" laws. All the justifications offered for Zimmerman's actions seem as though they would have been more applicable to Martin than to Zimmerman -- Zimmerman seems to have stalked (hunted?) this young man through the neighborhood, then confronted and ultimately killed him. If Trayvon had been the killer, does anyone honestly believe that "justifiable homicide" would have once been used to describe the incident? No. Of course not. Furthermore, whatever futile defense Martin allegedly put up is only used as justification for his murder, painting him as a violent, aggressive black criminal. Martin appears to have tried to stand his ground. But that law wasn't written for him, and I think deep in our hearts, we all know it.