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George Zimmerman Research Paper
July 24, 2013. (ONN) With the recent racial hype surrounding the not guilty verdict of George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin trial, white America seemed for the first time to speak up and say, leave me out of it. With a black victim, Hispanic killer and an all-female judge and jury, white men were still held up as the always-evil villain. And with the push-back came a slew of crime statistics by
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