Social Justice and Trayvon Martin

This article is about the obvious conflicting aspects of social justice when race and disagreements take place. I'm sure that most of you guys have heard about Trayvon Martin, the African American boy who was shot on his way back from a drugstore by a Hispanic man. Not only does it cover the aspect of social justice, but also the point of suffering in conjunction to the point of being good to others. Although the Hispanic man, George Zimmerman, claims that he shot and accidently killed Trayvon Martin in self-defense, it does not account for the amount of suffering for both parties, for the family and friends of Martin, and for Zimmerman and the amount of trials that he will/has had to go through. One main point from the lecture was that the concept of suffering demands that we focus on the present, and that human experience is a frail and real thing. Saying this, this concept does not alleviate any of the pain that Martin's relatives must be feeling, but can show just how frail human experience is.             Suffering is also connected with the principle of justice. It states how humanity indeed can act unjustly, and as human beings, there is an innate desire for those that wrong to be brought to justice. This especially plays a part in this tragedy because of the factor of race, and the fact that this incident is occasionally thought of in accordance to the civil rights movement and injustices held in Birmingham so many years earlier. Many say that Zimmerman should "get what he deserves," and that there has to be a "restoration of humanity" in order for people to move forward and come to peace with this incident. I think that this is why it is so important to be good to others, to bypass much suffering and to have a system of justice where humanity is in a continuous state of restoration. Trayvon Martin getting shot is certainly a tragedy, but also brings to light these concepts of being good to others and justice that can easily be forgotten in our society.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/02/us/trayvon-martin-shooting-prompts-a-review-of-ideals.html?_r=2&sq=social%20justice&st=cse&scp=6&pagewanted=all