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It's a shame racial justice still eludes U.S.

Candra Bryant, of Vero Beach, Fla., chants and

Photo credit: AP | Candra Bryant, of Vero Beach, Fla., chants and holds a sign with other protesters in a march and rally for slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin on March 31, 2012 in Sanford, Fla.

It is instructive to consider the tragedy of Trayvon Martin's death from its beginning. Let's start -- for now -- at the moment an armed volunteer watchman determined that the boy merited his sustained attention.

Was it that Martin appeared to be a stranger in a walled-off, multiracial community his dad called home? That he was a teenager? Was it the hoodie he wore? The way the tall young...

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