On February 26th, I was no where near the shooting of Trayvon Martin so I have no idea what happened. I don’t know Trayvon; I don’t know George Zimmerman. I don’t know if Trayvon did anything to provoke George and I have no idea what went on in George’s head or heart so I have…
After you finish this bonus article inspired by recent events, we hope you’ll also enjoy It’s Time to Focus on Current Events. In the beginning, we were told that Trayvon Martin, who was shot and killed by George Zimmerman, was a model student and a credit to his race. We were told that he had…
I read an op-ed in the New York Times the other day about the Trayvon Martin shooting. The writer, an author named Rich Benjamin, was mainly talking about his dislike of gated communities where residents, he says, develop a bunker mentality and see outsiders – “the young, the colored and the presumably poor” – as…