‘Everyone hears only what they understand’

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Let’s all take a moment here and catch our breaths (or hold them indefinitely in some cases. I’m looking at you, MSNBC).

In the wake of this legal, civil and social fiasco involving Trayvon and George, I propose the challenge of stepping back and making sure we all look at this case analytically.

A young man is dead, and a faux-hero is unchained; yet we mustn’t let our emotions act without the benefit of intellect. Nobody was there that night. Nobody but Mr. Zimmerman now knows what really happened (and surely Zimmerman’s memory has dragnetted the facts to support his own narrative– yes, I coined a new verb).
Yet this media porn the public has been subjected to not only condescends them, but its maniacal insistence to inspire further violence by means of establishing a race-based context as the predominant issue is irresponsible and insulting.

I like clearly knowing who my good guys and bad guys are just as much as the next person, but I also know that forcing this framework in order to make things more understandable for myself, is not only predictably erroneous but also potentially dangerous.