Zimmerman Verdict: Why Conservatives Applaud the Acquittal

Zimmerman Verdict: Why Conservatives Applaud the Acquittal

What is most curious about the reactions to the Zimmerman acquittal this week is how easily, in these conservatives' minds, Trayvon serves as a proxy for Barack Obama. For, you see, what conservatives have wanted all along was to destroy the personage and legacy of this first African-American president -- for fear that his ascendance would signal a shift in the inequitable racial power dynamics that exist throughout American society.