that young man, because we wouldn t be. this is the if president obama can say, trayvon martin could have been me, this is the point that, in fact, trayvon martin could i am not trayvon martin if i am in another kind of body. right, george zimmerman could have been me or a lot of other white folks. and i want to add to this fact, because it has deep historical roots. the president makes reference in this speech to statistically, trayvon martin was more likely to be killed by a peer than by george zimmerman, which is his way of sort of grounding it in a way so that he doesn t go too far off the reservation. but the larger history that this relies upon is essentially that statistically, trayvon s not likely to be the president. so statistically, we should treat trayvon like the potential suspect that he is, rather than him being like the president. and essentially, the violence of the racial quantification of black life. this way in which we essentially say, we don t have to us