On Treyvon

Everyone and their mother are weighing in on the Martin/Zimmerman case.

Forget for a moment all questions of race - were someone tailing me in the dead of night, I'd run, too.  And if the tail continued, I'd turn and attack.

An innocent was shot. I didn’t know
Exactly what had happened, the details,
Or how the watchman, running off the rails,
Could kill a man who’d given him a blow
For giving him a chase. I read a bit.
Assuming there is nothing left to read,
The evidence is damning, and the seed
Of anger has a passage yet unwrit-/ten.
All the commentary here
Is focused on the color of the skin.
I feel the greater relevance is in
The fact that giving chase is giving fear.
If one who’s not a cop is chasing you,
You’d doubtless run, or would attack him, too.