According to the spinmeisters, he represented a inner-city African-American culture that white folks are completely incapable of understanding and appreciating. This was best illustrated in the Piers Morgan interview with TM's girlfriend, who said that Zimmerman was to blame because, "...They don't understand, they understand -- he was just bashed or he was killed. When somebody bashes like blood people, trust me, the area I live, that's not bashing. That's just called whoop ass. You do that (INAUDIBLE). That's what it is." When Morgan asked her about TM looking like a thug in the pictures he posed of himself, she was quick to correct him: "...They need to know a definition of a thug, to be judging a person -- well, a teenager, mind you a teenager, could post anything, even I post anything to just brag. Just to brag.
MORGAN: You mean the stuff on social media?
JEANTEL: Yes. MORGAN: The Facebook and so on.
JEANTEL: That's just brag, it's not true."
So a teenager posting these things isn't a thug, he's just bragging.
See how little we understand? Zimmerman was just supposed to take his whoopa** and understand that TM didn't really want to kill him, well, according to his girlfriend, maybe someone giving a whoopa** DOES want to kill you, but you have to be from the culture to really know what their intentions are, because sometimes a whoopa** is just to teach you a lesson, but other times when you "like blood people" they really ARE trying to kill you. Did you get that? And he really wasn't a thug, showing pictures of himself with guns and other stuff, he was just bragging.
In case somebody thinks I'm deliberately screwing up what she said to make her look like an idiot, here is a link to the transcript:
CNN.com - Transcripts
He died a martyr to the gangsta culture