And we are scared that a jury of this man’s peers would agree. We are scared because of the work and time it took even to get the man arrested. We are scared because Trayvon’s beautiful life and terrible death is meant to be erased; the reporting of it made no front-page news, no Dateline, no Anderson Cooper. The story on my Facebook feed was a tiny blog post, a post not connected with mainstream media. A white man is questioned and then released after he shoots and kills an unarmed Black boy who was walking home. And in that instant I was filled with rage and confusion. Was this 2012 or 1955?
