On The Two-Way, NPR’s news blog, Mark Memmott writes: “A national discussion about race continues in the wake of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin’s death last month in Sanford, Fla.
To recap: Martin, who was unarmed, was shot by a a 28-year-old man, George Zimmerman, who claimed self defense. Martin’s family and supporters — and now a growing number of people across the nation — say it was a case of racial profiling and that Zimmerman only assumed Martin was “suspicious” and followed him through the neighborhood because the teenager was black”.
Read more here: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/03/22/149130431/after-trayvon-martins-death-were-all-having-the-talk?ft=1&f=1001&sc=tw&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
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