The Verdict is in

And it is not an encouraging one for American society in general and for people of color in particular.  By exonerating George Zimmerman for the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, the jury of six women, perhaps inadvertently, has declared open season on "suspicious" people of all colors, but specifically black men of a certain age.  While the jurors were only asked to rule on a very narrow interpretation of the law, the inevitable outcome will be to empower the racist id of our nation's consciousness.  If the roles had been reversed and Martin was the survivor and Zimmerman the deceased is there a thinking human being who would believe the verdict would have been the same.  As long as the meme of the scary black man is present in this country, trials like this will always end this way.