Regardless of whether we agree or not with the George Zimmerman verdict, the death of a young man and the ensuing events and legal process should cause Americans introspection.
Continued media bias is obvious when emphasis focuses on race — there is always the statement of someone being black, but not Hispanic, Asian, Native American or any other ethnicity.
A member of Congress dressing in hoodies and publicly, on the House floor, stating that a teenager was profiled, stalked and killed was more than irresponsible.
President Obama, who rarely missed photo ops, weighed in with the statement, “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.” POTUS, with an Ivy League law degree, should have known the prejudice he was fomenting.