All week, I'd been listening, horrified, to NPR news reports of seventeen-year-old Trayvon's murder -- how a self-appointed vigilante gunned him down because he felt threatened by this young black man's presence in his gated community. The murderer, George Zimmerman, who at this writing has yet to be arrested, claims he killed Trayvon in self-defense, despite the fact that he pursued Trayvon, and that Trayvon was armed with nothing more than a packet of Skittles and a bottle of tea. That could be my son. President Obama had the same reaction. "If I had a son," he said, "he'd look like Trayvon."
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