Two views on Trayvon Martin

Personally, I find it both reprehensible and embarrassing that it is apparently legal to get out of your car, stalk a kid because you don't like his skin color, and then shoot him dead.

You can open up all the grand juries and the FBI can come riding into town, but that is a legal act in the state of Florida, 2012 years after the Age of Christ.

Here is a very moving reflection on the state of black men - and the racism they face - that I heard earlier today.

Listen to it here:

And here is an observation from a white person trying to understand, and knowing they will never face the things so many people in this nation, and this world, know instinctively. People hate you solely for how you look.