National Bar Association Demands Justice for Trayvon Martin

[BlueStreak]

64. You cannot call another man a racist and then oppose him on racial grounds

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and expect to not have that same stain on you.

Look, if you want to talk about the root causes -- which have almost nothing to do with race -- and actions we can take to try to have a better system of laws in Florida, that is fine. But I have no patience for this endless stream of "well if it was a white boy that was shot ..." arguments. We don't know what might have happened in some other hypothetical scenario. What we do know is that the evidence in this case was simply not clear enough to convict beyond a reasonable doubt. That is a protection that is in place for everybody.

If you are asking me if there has ever been a lynching in the South, obviously there has been. The South (and other places) has an ugly history, and some of that legacy lives on today. But I just don't see where that was a primary factor in this case, and the attempts to try to force fit this case into a racial framework are themselves, in my opinion, bordering on racism.