But, any man who he cheats on his wife battling cancer, I have a problem with that. I hope he never runs for any government office again. I am embarrassed he calls himself a ‘Baptist.’

I read your article and the reply by Chris Wright and I had to give a response because I believe that, while the article is on point and expresses sensible concerns Mr. Wright’s response does an injustice to the article, black people, the Trayvon Martin case, and the state of race relations in America in general.
Mr. Wright brings up the issue of violence in the black community and the failure to speak up about it within our community. I would say that all too often we do speak up against the crime but the issue in this regard is a failure of both local media to report it adequately and law enforcement to investigate and prosecute fully. I would suggest that Mr. Wright’s should be more properly directed to those groups.
You go on to suggest that this case has been an attempt to “stir up race issues” stating that the fact that Zimmerman was Hispanic not Anglo. Let me point out briefly before i go on to my main point here that Zimmerman is a Anglo-Hispanic and I would mention further that his father (White -Anglo) has been mentioned prevalently in the media coverage surrounding this issue being a retired Magistrate (more on that later) while his mother has not been mentioned at all except as a substantiation of his Hispanic heritage. However the original point I wanted to make is the thrust of the whole protest has been directed towards the failure of law enforcement to follow normal procedure (investigate, confiscate the weapon, controlled substance testing etc.). This is intimately tied to the marginalization of black people and our lives or death in this instance. The Zimmerman supporters and to a degree the media’s attempt to deflect the race issue by referring to his Hispanic ethnicity is wholly intended to distract from the failure of law enforcement to do their job.
Mr. Wright says that he knows racism, and sites being bussed, grew up in the hood, etc. as his credentials. I would say that anyone that truly knows what racism is would not need, or even feel the need to state his credentials and I am offended that you dismiss the fact that the accused may have said racial slurs and used “stereotypical” terms. It is that same apathy and dismissiveness that gives the footing that racism needs to stand on and/or hide behind. It’s a shame that your time in the “predominantly white setting” for the past 20 years has completely eradicated your sense of what it means to be black in America, I am glad for you that you do not see the ugly side of racism, although you say your in-laws don’t talk to you family your tone suggests that you don’t care about that or it isn’t a problem for you. I also am sad for your loss of identity. I am a black man I work for a great company with a predominately white peerage, and they are mostly conservative, however we all have respect for each other as a person and a human a model which I find to be sorely lacking in our society today.
Lastly, although I won’t comment on you remark on Toure, except to say that, Zimmerman’s brother had not relevant news or facts to present as he was not a witness to the killing nor was he even in contact with his brother until significantly later. I would call both things what they likely were, attempts to get viewership. I will make one note though “Mississippi Burning” was not about Emmett Till as you suggest, it was actually about three civil rights workers, which happened in 1964 (The year you were born I believe), and there are similarities between the two if you look at the actions and response of local law enforcement. If you are looking for information on Emmett Till or the civil rights movement in general i would suggest the PBS documentary “eyes on the prize”
Finally I would reply to your statement about “yelling fire” in response to speaking out against racial injustice in America I will say unequivocally that there is a fire in America, were that not the case you would not see other nations joining in on this protest, which I state again in not directed primarily at Zimmerman but at a system (law enforcement at the local level) which all too often turns a blind eye when it comes to justice and due-process in the black community; in the 45 days since Trayvon was killed there have, nationally, been at least 15 cases where innocent black lives have been lost to law enforcement related officials.

The phone call was distorted by the police. They left out some of the wording by Zimmerman.

Wow, the press and associates played this up big. Very sad,in our world of ‘news’ this is what sells?