Nice post, SJL...

I agree that the pro-Zimmerman camp comes off as not only racist but not capable of empathy toward Trayvon and his family...

I don't know where you live or how old you are but I came up the 50s in the South... I have witnessed first hand the hate that way too many white people had and continue to have of black people... Unfortunately, this hatred goes way back and has been passed down from generation to generation... I'm old enough to remember the civil rights workers who were murdered back then... More recently 5 civil rights demonstrators were gunned down in Greensboro, NC in 1979 and no arrests were made...
These people had mothers and fathers... Sisters, brothers, kids of their own...

That is the real tragedy here that we still have pockets of rampant racism here in America... No, its not just the South but seems the South has more than its share...

This idea that the jury has spoken and we need to get over it is unAmerican... It's not what our country should be about because if we allow anyone to be oppressed then we are all in danger of being oppressed... This needs to get solved... We either value life or we don't... It's that simple... If we don't value the lives of black people than why should we value the life of anyone??? That's the issue here...

B~