The end of civility...

The one thing the Zimmerman trial has shown us is civility is dead. With all the Usual Suspects talking about how Mr. Zimmerman should have listened to some 911 operator that really has no authority. We do not hear about how Treyvon reacted to someone asking him why he was there? What if instead of hostility and confrontation...he would have said "Oh I am just coming back from the store. I am visiting my father who lives over there. Maybe you would like to meet him?" But no...from all we have heard he acted with hostility and did not even get off the phone with his girlfriend. Sure it is easy to say Zimmerman should have listened to a 911 operator...but it is also easy to say that Martin should have dropped the ghetto act and just acted with civility. 

Of course calling for civility is not something that the Usual Suspects want...or need. They and the media that takes their bait live for confrontation and civil unrest. And this story gives them all the gas they need for the fire...but meanwhile in urban America the same lack of civility and hostility leads to dozens of murders each day...and the Usual Suspects and the media seem to ignore that. And that...does not help the people they pretend to represent.