Trayvon's killer said to make self-incriminating statements

[Tommy_Carcetti]

73. But just because one story is publicized and ten similar ones aren't doesn't necessarily....

....mean the first story is frivilous.

Case in point: Who was the black woman who on March 2, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama refused to give up her front seat on a city bus to a white man, resulting in her removal from the bus and her arrest?

If you said Rosa Parks, you would be wrong. Parks was arrested for her famous act of defiance on December 1, 1955, and the famed boycott followed from that incident. The woman who was arrested several months earlier for the same act was named Claudette Colvin, a 16 year old student who was pregnant at the time of her arrest. Local civil rights leaders chose not to run a campaign on Colvin's arrest, however, because of her seemingly taboo status of being a pregnant teen at that time.

Same act, same law, with seemingly only local implications at first, but in Parks' case, the discussion of the underlying issues quickly became national.

As I mentioned earlier, this Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman case raises more issues than just a simple shooting. It doesn't mean that other similar stories with similar issues that have been ignored should be ignored, but it doesn't mean the media should ignore this particular story either simply because of past ignorance of other stories.

And I maintain that even if the photos initially released were of an older, more mature looking Trayvon Martin and an thinner, smiling, professionally dressed George Zimmerman, it would not change the issues that underlie this case. That we now have more accurate pictures of what the two individuals looked like at the time of the incident does not change the issues that underlie this case.