Our nation is obsessed with race, and the race question, and the race problem
This week a verdict was handed down in the George Zimmerman trial. He was acquitted of Murder Two for the death of Trayvon Martin.
I consider this verdict to be a just one.
At the most basic, the prosecution did not prove its case. The jury wisely abstained from judging on a second angle, the manslaughter one...why was that even in there,-- but for to give an "out" for those who knew that there was no Murder Two but felt that they must convict George Zimmerman of something.
At the outset of this incident, Al Sharpton and Big Ed played the indignation card right out in front. They lined up the bereaved parents of Trayvon Martin in front of the television camera and had us watch them grieve. Of course they grieved. And of course they had grievances. Al Sharpton and Big Ed had indignation, and they played it for all it was worth. Shame on them.
Poor foolish George Zimmerman trying to play cop. Poor foolish Trayvon Martin trying to play bad black boy in a hoodie, running around in the shadows of a strange neighborhood. The elements of our nation's tragedy are right there, where one young man lost his life and the other--well, we don't yet know what he has lost, do we? Time will tell us that.
It has the elements of classical tragedy in that each young man had the strength and freedom of youth, and that each lost in the same moment and plummeted to earth. I just don't reconcile what I see in this case with the attitude of indignation that I see played over it. It's like being indignant with a steam roller, for rolling over things. No, we have to stop, weep with the parents of the lost youth, pray for the future of the living one, and pray and think of our nation as we go through these incidents day by day, over and over, until we learn. YAZZYBEL
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