In the world today people face many controversial issues. Many of these issues are due to race and media bias. There have been many topics of race relations in America that have come and gone, but they were never forgotten. There was a more recent one this past summer; it was the George Zimmerman trial. George Zimmerman was a 28-year old neighborhood watchman, who shot and killed Trayvon Martin. Trayvon was 17-year old African American boy who was on the phone with his girlfriend, on his way home from a convenience store. Trayvon was unarmed, and the only things he had were a bag of skittles and an iced tea. Zimmerman viewed Trayvon as a “suspicious person”. On the night of February 26, 2012 Zimmerman called to report him and the officials instructed him not to get out of his car or approach Trayvon. Zimmerman still got out of his car to go approach Trayvon who wasn't acting suspicious in any way. Zimmerman shot and killed Martin saying it was “self defense”. In order to convict Zimmerman the jurors would have to believe that he intentionally committed on act or acts that cause the death of Trayvon Martin. George Zimmerman was found not guilty. I disagree with the jury’s decision because Trayvon clearly did nothing wrong. There was no blood on his hands at the crime scene which was another sign that he did nothing wrong. There are many groundbreaking events that have impacted the way Americans view race relations today. One major event is Rosa Parks and her act of courage. On December 1, 1955 a 42-year old women took a seat on a bus on her way home from the Montgomery state fair department store, where she worked as a seamstress. She quietly set off a revolution before the bus driver instructed her to move to the back. She refused to move, she was eventually arrested for violating a city law requiring racial segregation. Her arrest became a rallying point to which the African American community organized a bus boycott in p