The Watson Memorial Teaching Ministries Church of New Orleans, at a rally held in reaction to the recent George Zimmerman acquittal

The Watson Memorial Teaching Ministries Church of New Orleans, at a rally held in reaction to the recent George Zimmerman acquittal

The Watson Memorial Teaching Ministries Church of New Orleans, at a rally held in reaction to the recent George Zimmerman acquittal

The jurors who acquitted George Zimmerman saw Trayvon Martin as merely one thing: black. Similar to the all country, where laws and police policies have once again made complexion a defining experience for non-white Americans.



When Juror B37 detailed to CNN’s Cooper Beaten how she and her fellow jurors located their verdict, we, as a nation, had many reactions some judicial, some moral, and several simply emotional. It became transparent as she defined her thoughts and understanding of the truth which she related most to Zimmerman, the adult furnished with a loaded gun, to never Trayvon, the unarmed child on his way home. It had been also tragically clear she saw Trayvon only as being a color—black—which intended for her and also the others one thing, any threat, not really a person. Were they not mothers? How could they not see and connect with the frightened teenage child who had previously been being followed? We understand people race. But when one individual is surely an adult which has a loaded gun and something person is an unarmed teenage boy on his way home in his own neighborhood, one wonders why there wasn’t overwhelming empathy for the child.

On July 16th on the NAACP, Attorney General Eric Holder spoke about “the conversation”she must will have along with his 15-year-old son in the wake of the Zimmerman verdict. He pondered “the conversation” he'd regarding his father about the imposed rules of conduct with police when being black, and was saddened this chain of “the conversation” from father to son is not broken in our racial profiling America. His words were raw, personal but familiar if you ask me and several other parents of color. Yesterday, I took the ability to spend time with my son watching the animated foolery on Fox.