after the not guilty verdict in the second degree murder trial of george zimmerman. you are now looking at the president. this was within the last hour. the first time the president publicly opened up about the verdict and about african-american boys, including himself once upon a time in america. here he was. >> they rendered a verdict. and once the jury has spoken, that's how our system works. but i did want to just talk a little bit about context. and how people have responded to it and how people are feeling. you know, when trayvon martin was first shot, i said that this could have been my son. another way of saying that is, trayvon martin could have been me. 35 years ago. >> coming up, some folks are praising the president coming forward and speaking about this. others saying, no, he's injecting himself in a