It amazes me to no end the amount of fact twisting and "what if" contortions some TM supporters/GZ haters will go through to try to make Zimmerman look like a bad guy (when all accounts are that he was a completely and utterly decent person) and make Martin look like a saint (when all accounts are that he was a delinquent thug/gangsta wannabe with all kinds of character flaws). To those people: What the fuck is wrong your perception of reality? Get a grip.
For
some of them it's about supporting a fellow black person no matter what, because of past injustices and disparities, both real, imagined and exaggerated. It's pure emotion. The same thing that led to people cheering a
brutal double murderer getting away with it, despite the evidence proving his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt (OJ.)
For
others, it's about proving that they aren't racist, and they are sympathetic toward black people. They're fully aware of their "white privilege" and feel awful about it. The least they can do is stand side by side, arm in arm, with the African American community and fight the "good fight" against racism, systemic injustice, etc.
For people in both groups a lot of it, I believe, ties in with having missed out on the actual civil rights battles of the 20th century. They're progressive and they admire the people marching in the 50's and 60's, in particular.
It reminds me of a Knight who is born just after the era of the last real dragons being slain (I know there weren't actually dragons, just humor me here...) and all that are left as he's reaching manhood are a few sad little runts... but he's so desperate for the glory of his forefathers, he's running around embarrassing himself swinging a mighty sword at a helpless dragon runt.
Then when those run out he starts killing regular lizards, and dressing up horses as dragons before beheading them.
The real, "great white racists" of the past just aren't really around anymore. We live in an era now when white people elected a black president, and have opened their borders in every traditionally white country... and have implemented affirmative action to systematically disadvantage themselves to the benefit of others.
But damn it, they want a dragon head for the mantle piece and they'll make do with regular conservatives or well-intentioned, non-racist people who simply have an honest disagreement with them on this case.
What really throws them for a mental loop is something like that Charles Barkley video I posted. They don't know how to process a black person agreeing with this verdict. The black progs have the ability to dismiss them as "Uncle Tom" but the white progs are defenseless... paralyzed by their own pathological inability to see fault in, or disagree with any black person.