Trayvon Martin was serving suspension for marijuana possession

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

How is that relevant?

For character assassination purposes.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

It is not relevant to the facts of the case...but does disprove the media claims that Trayvon was a "model student"

Academically he was apparently very good and this doesn't exactly make him a horrible delinquent, but totally agreed that he doesn't have to have hagiographies written about him for the person who shot him in the chest under unclear circumstances to be arrested.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Nathan- as usual you are reasonable and I agree...I also want to point out how Zimmerman has been represented as white. He is a Latino or  a Mestizo... once again- this does not change the case at all but it shows media looking for a better story

Thing is, admitting that Zimmerman is not in fact a white man doesn't even make the whole race angle go away, since it's entirely possible and indeed rather common for racial friction to exist between blacks and Hispanics. Sadly, the pushing of the white-black dichotomy has damaged the credibility of the entire subject of race relations in this case, which is definitely something that deserves to at least be discussed seriously, among people who aren't already inclined to interpret it that way.