re: "What you gonna do, boy?" Racist eats some punches.

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The old man was just moving up in line.

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Yeah, just moving up the line. Nothing else.

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He wasn’t “approaching him.” The cash register was vacant. It was the assailant’s turn to check out. The old man was just moving up in line.

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Treyvon Martin was merely asking Zimmerman why he was following him.

You and I are not in any position to judge the intentions of anyone but ourselves BUT, I would bet any amount of money you would like to raise that most people would assume a black man who was verbally haranguing someone in line at a convenience store was approaching the person when that person turns their back on the haranguer...the younger man turned away from the situation and stepped up to the counter...the older man stepped closer to the counter and in doing so closer to the young man, all the while still verbally haranguing the young man....it is perfectly reasonable to assume that the young man thought the older man was about to attack him physically. The younger man was standing his ground. He did not react physically until the older man closed the distance between them. It is perfectly logical to assume that an obviously emotionally disturbed individual acting the way the older man was acting may not be rational and may indeed be in the process of escalating from verbal abuse to physical abuse. The young man merely stood his ground. He increase the physical distance between himself and the older man...the older man then closed that distance, forcing the younger man to decide if he was going to be attacked or defend himself...he did what most men would do in that situation...but his being black of course means he merely did so because he is black and therefore inherently violent and incapable of avoiding physical confrontation despite having already proven to do so by creating greater distancing between himself and the older man....