What was it the Obama said, that if he'd had a son he would have looked like Trayvon?

Not about race.  Nope.  Not a bit.

I could be wrong, butThe only thing that changed.  The only reason I can think of them.  Is because of Rachel's testimony that Travyon used an insulting racial term against white people.

I think they pay their consultants to do crappy analyses and the best solution they came up with was to go on national television and with a straight face say

"This is not about race"

If you find her coverage "grossly offensive," you ought to read blogs in which people can post false information and character attacks.

Here are some reasons why some of us think this is a big deal and we want to scream about it:

1. This case would never have become an international cause celebre if TM's parents, their lawyers, their PR person, Congresspeople, celebrities, etc., had not suggested that GZ was a racist monster and Sanford authorities were racist.

2. People have suffered material consequences because of the racism meme. GZ's parents had to move because of death threats. The media has besieged Twin Lakes residents, and some of them felt they had to move.

Businesses have lost money because of crowds; some people think Sanford is a hotbed of racism; other people are afraid of violence from protesters. (The latter isn't racist. After all, the DOJ has people there to calm the African-American community, and we have the unusual arrangement in which some ministers get reserved seating in the hopes that they will report to their congregations that the system was fair.)

3. Eye/ear witnesses have been dragged through hell, and in some cases, held up to public ridicule because of the media coverage.

4. The anti-racist movement is hurt because you can't call something the civil rights case of the century, as Crump did a couple of months ago, only to have your law partner tell people that this case has never been about racial profiling.

5. GZ faces life in prison even though no evidence has been presented so far to show that he acted out of depravity. Imagine for a moment that GZ really did shoot in self-defense. Then an innocent man would have been sent into hiding out of fear for his life; be financially ruined; and have an uncertain future. Will he have to remain in hiding?

I didn't know that TM lived with her (Alicia I think is her first name) and Tracy Martin. They broke up right before the shooting. She said TM spent 90% of his time with her and Tracy. She is the one who went to his ballgames, took care of him when he got sick, etc.

She said he chose to live with them. She said if he got sick when he wasn't home (I took that to mean at his real mom's) he called for them to come and get him. She said he rarely spoke of his mom, but she had never spoken anything bad about his mom to him.

It was interesting. She didn't come across as bitter to me about being left out of the "family". She came across as sincerely hurt and crushed by his death. She said at first Tracy kept her updated about what was going on and then all of a sudden he didn't. I wondered if the lawyers told him to just let the "real" parents be in the media. It's odd, even though she and Tracy are divorced or broken up if they were married. (I can't remember that part.)It hurt her deeply that someone didn't allow her to sit on the front row for his funeral even though she raised him.

I don't know which replay of AC will be the Zimmerman case rerun, but it was interesting if you're interested in the case or just Trayvon.

The robbery rate is Sanford can explain his behavior, but in my opinion does not excuse it.

Obama was specifically asked about by reporters about the Trayvon case which was exploding nationally thanks to awful, atrocious, horrendous media coverage....especially Matt Gutless and the NBC editors that made it a racial thing.

Obama responded with a couple sentences in support of the family.  Since then, he has specifically stayed far away from this case.

Matt Gutless and the media members who initially created the BGI narrative will hold a huge responsibility if there are bloody and destructive riots after GZ is acquitted.  I would guess no on the riots right now...but you never know.

My wife was a Hillary supporter.  I an Obama supporter.  Nobody ever called her racist.

As other lawyers would do in his situation, he put the best spin he could on the facts at hand. The initial photos released of Trayvon Martin were several years old, and this was probably the biggest reason the incident became a national scandal. If they had released a photo of him from his 17th birthday three weeks before his death, the public would've been less likely to see the shooting the way the family did -- as an innocent child shot to death walking home from 7-11.

I think they are worried now. They deliberately whipped this country into a frenzy about a poor little innocent black boy skipping home with his skittles and tea who was hunted down and shot by an angry white dude, and he was getting away with it because of RACIAL injustice. "Justice for Trayvon" - not about race??? Laughable.

The trial is going badly. They are reading the tea leaves, and they are now trying to mitigate any liability for any race riots that might break out when the "not guilty" verdict is announced.

Sadly, again, MSM has just played along. They all dutifully pronounced this statement in their reports without challenging them about their prior narrative. It's like there has been collective amnesia by the media of all the prior acts of the "Justice for Trayvon" team. I did not hear one peep from any reporter or analyst that said anything about their antics for the past year and a half. Crickets.

It shouldn't be about race. But race is the elephant in the room. Nobody believes that if you make Trayvon Martin white [and the Neighborhood Watch volunteer black], there's no way he would not be arrested, and that's the unfortunate and tragic truth of the matter. There is a double standard. That's why race is involved in this case.

Park, OTOH, was not referring whether race played a role in the decision to not arrest Zimmerman, but whether they claimed it played a role in Zimmerman's alleged profiling of Martin:

"It's not about racial profiling," Daryl Parks told reporters. "He was profiled (criminally). George Zimmerman profiled him."

I don't find this remarkable or even noteworthy, because when all is said and done, it's about the law, the testimony and the jury, not what the lawyers are saying on the courthouse steps.

I don't think it unreasonable to think if Trayvon was white that George Zimmerman would have been charged a lot sooner.

I personally don't think Trayvon being black made Zimmerman suspicious of him...I think George Zimmerman was/is suspicious of anybody and everybody he didn't know personally...judging by his dime-dropping habit.  Stranger at the front door, call the police.  Kids in the street, call the police. Drunk pedestrian, call the police.  

"It's not about racial profiling," Daryl Parks told reporters. "He was profiled (criminally). George Zimmerman profiled him."