0 african-american and hispanic communities. professor peterson, though the stand your ground law was not ultimately used in zimmerman s defense, it s worth noting the profound racial disparity nrt convictions in stand your ground states. in cases with a black shooter and a white victim, just over 1% ruled justified. about the same as in states with no stand your ground law. but in cases with a white shooter and a black victim, almost 17% deemed justified. in states with no stand your ground laws, that falls to under 10%. how do you explain that. by saying that what this law basically reflects is the very real fact of the bias in our criminal justice system so that the color of your skin is the justify canable cause for homicide in these cases. listen, we have a criminal justice system that has been proven to be statistically racially biased. when you overlay that with a day. if they create a genuine bona fide movement on the twin problems, that s when you begin to see meaningful c