not either/or. it is not about race, it is not right and wrong. this is about the way that race can influence the way that we understand right and wrong. in addition to this, this is also about our gun laws, the fact that mr. zimmerman was able to be armed that night and this proactive idea of self-defense where the florida legislature and others like them pass laws about self-defense seem to be taking confusing law with football as the best defense is a good offense, and so all of these things combined, what kind of makes the active ingredient in this toxic brew is racial. i want to come to you now. let s just say you have been covering this thing almost from the beginning. let s just say that there was not that 44-day period between when trayvon martin was shot and killed and when george zimmerman was arrested. let s just say hypothetically