The Real Message from Trayvon's Tragedy:

The real driving force behind the Trayvon tragedy is our forty year long 'war on drugs'.

Here's why...

During Prohibition when we tried to ban the popular drug called alcohol, it was inevitable that society would not abide that law and it was equally inevitable that the people who would lead the insurrection against that ban, by supplying it, would be the lower echelons of our economic society, those with the least to lose, the most desperate. At the time that was immigrant society, Italian and Irish and of course the poor of all backgrounds.

In the modern world, the American 'racial experiment' is still challenged by the dichotomy of darker skinned people of African descent trying to live with lighter skinned people of European background. Here in the USA that is still a unique situation, globally speaking, remember that, proudly.

When we started trying to criminalize the use of pot and coca etc. in 1972 the effort was doomed to fail like Prohibition and in the wake of that, the people of African descent who were still at the bottom of our socio-economic ladder inevitably became the source of best resort for access to drugs which had been popular to all people for centuries. Of course, only a small fraction of people of African descent are involved in the drug trade (along with vast numbers of people of all races) and the users are still largely light skinned Eur-Americans.

But with the crushing legal penalties for involvement in illegal drug activities the Afr-American community has been unfairly and brutally punished and imprisoned and stigmatized as 'evil'.

Thus, the Trayvon Tragedy.

To start to change this we need to have our FDA (Food and Drug Administration) allow the AMA (American Medical Association) to be in charge of the 'drug issue' by giving doctors access to these drugs for treatment purposes and then we will be able to make quick progress towards reeling in these overly aggressive gun laws and police tactics which are unique in American history (worse than Prohibition).

That may seem a long way to get to Trayvon's Tragedy, but he was the result of these sad policies.. In his name WE SHALL OVERCOME!