Obama Author Twists Trayvon Case In PBS Report

Gwen Ifill said, “The dispute over the killing of Trayvon Martin has sparked a national debate about race, justice, and when it is reasonable to act in self-defense.” Ifill is wrong.

The dispute over the killing of Martin did not spark a national debate about race. It was the mainstream media, of which Ifill is a prominent member, that forced this national debate about race on everyone by desperately, through omissions, edits, and selective half-truths, trying to use the Martin tragedy as a way to advance their political agenda of getting their audience to see America as a nation of system racial inequalities and prejudices.