Martin/Zimmerman

the prosecution failed badly.  This jury did not feel a long sentence would be justice, so they made it a not guilty verdict.

Yet our fellow white Americans erupted in shock and outrage that the black president would speak about the issue of race. Something President Bill Clinton and many other white presidents before him were allowed to do without question. And I think that President Obama to this very day has to tread lightly on the issue of race, economic justice for blacks, and a whole host of “black” issues around race as a direct result of how he handled the Gates controversy. He has been effectively muted. As have been many black leaders in corporate America, in universities, in industry, in media and in jurisprudence in our nation. We all know the drill. We all know that to be black and speak up about racism or injustice in your environment is to put your very existence on the line financially, socially, and otherwise. That is a problem we as a culture must address and soon change if we are to solve our race problems.

Experts: Prosecutors failed to humanize Trayvon