There is an African proverb that goes something like this: Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.That line jumped out at me as I read the column Charles M. Blow has up for the Thursday New York Times. It is titled Beyond the Courtroom, and should provoke some thinking.
I said he had some questions for us to consider. He suggests that the trial of George Zimmerman in the killing of Trayvon Martin - for it is not in doubt that Zimmerman did kill Martin -
has produced a valuable and profound dialogue in America about some important issues surrounding race and justice, fear and aggression, and legal guilt and moral culpability.And we can only examine those issue by asking questions. Perhaps we might consider matters of race, of gender, of age. For example, consider this from the op-ed:
...as a thought experiment, reverse the race and ethnicities of Trayvon Martin and
