These ...

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... are my final words about the Martin/Zimmerman kerfluffle.

Whether or not justice prevails remains to be seen, but this case is now not about whether Zimmerman was justified in shooting Trayvon Martin.

It is about race ... and that is the real tragedy.

Legal Insurrection has a chart from the FBI, detailing which racial demographic kills what other racial demographic the most. Ironically, whites killing blacks and vice versa is surprisingly rare (compared to black-on-black and white-on-white murder).

So the racial instances involved in the Martin shooting are the exception rather than the norm. And yet, that's the thrust of the uproar.

It's the progressive Left's Easy Button.

Because it's hard, if you're a parent, to realize that your son actually did attack his killer. And it's hard to contemplate what your role (if any) might have played in that. So you minimize everything that could have been prevented: it's irrelevant that your son is doing poorly in school; it's irrelevant that your son is involved with burglary and drugs; it's irrelevant that your son is living in the gangster culture; it's irrelevant that your son is growing up in a broken home

Nope ... can't be any of that ... has to be racism. The Easy Button.

You see, claiming racism is not only easy, it absolves the one who claims it from any responsibility for whatever happened.

You didn't get a job for which you were woefully unqualified? Racism.

You didn't get into a college when your grades were objectively too low? Racism.

Neighborhood Watch volunteer shoots you when you attack him? It's not you ... it's racism.

I really hope that Zimmerman and his family can get through this mostly intact. I hope that the investigation shows that Zimmerman was legally blameless (I think it will).

And I hope that Trayvon Martin's family can get closure and get over this tragic event.

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