No Day for Justice

"What the verdict tells us is, to the astonishment of tens of millions of us, you can go looking for trouble in Florida, with a gun and a great deal of racial bias, and you can find that trouble, and you can act upon that trouble in a way that leaves a young man dead, and none of it guarantees that you will be convicted of a crime." 
Zimmerman may not be legally guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, but he is morally guilty beyond all doubt.
And now America's neoracism has a face, a young and innocent one. Beware of creating martyrs. They are powerful things. George Zimmerman turned Trayvon Martin into a victim. The verdict turned Martin into something much more powerful, something unstoppable — a symbol.