was an out-of-towner, that was the only reason anyone cared. and you also throw into the mix the racial polarization that happened around barack obama. the moment barack obama said that if he had a son, he would look like trayvon, the employ polarization around this case began and it s never ended. there have been other cases recently that have captured our attention, gone 24 hours on the news cycle, jodi arias and casey anthony, but it didn t feel as though white women s sense of belonging in the cunning hang in the balance of what those verdicts were, right? there was a kind of salacious aspect to them, but there wasn t a sense of, if this verdict comes down one way, that will signal something about a whole people, and yet, over and over again, it keeps feeling that way, when we have these kind of race trials. well, i mean, i think because america, obviously, has an incredibly difficult history on the question of race welcome it is something that still haunt us. there was this wi