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The outcome of this trial teaches us that in American society, if you plan to stand up for yourself on the streets against someone who is harassing you, it is essential that you arm yourself to do so.

It teaches black American parents that they must tell their children either to carry legal guns, or that they must always back off from harassment. Otherwise those kids just might not come home from the shops.

That is an interesting development in US society that is certainly worthy of HN. Compare it to e.g. the pages and pages written about a Korean pilot getting a landing wrong. Also much more significant than a couple of immigrant kids placing backpack bombs at a public event.

It teaches none of that, black children are far more likely to die at the hands of another black American than any other race.

A show trial is not worthy of HN, this was an attempt to achieve social justice of legal justice.

The real crime is all those who pushed for this trial are doing so to redirect attention from the fact that blacks are far more likely to die at the hands of another.

The Korean pilot story was more appropriate because as geeks we like tech and tech could eventually negate pilot error if pilots exist in the future.

> blacks are far more likely to die at the hands of another.

Poor people are far more likely to die at the hands of another poor person.

FTFY. If you ever go to the USA, you'll discover that in the urban areas socio-economic class and race are just the tiniest little bit correlated.

Similar point raised by Jamelle Bouie: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/07/15/the-trayvon...

I guess you took a survey of black american parents. Is that why you know what black american parents need to be taught? Can you think of other things that black american parents need to be taught?

Before this you think black american parents were not concerned about kids coming home? Did black american parents miss the "lesson" of Amadou Diallo?

Sorry, "x teaches y to z" as in "z concludes from x that the evidential support for hypothesis y has increased".