Trayvon and the good victim

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Just as Rahm Emmanuel didn’t want to let a good crisis go to waste, the national press doesn’t want to let a good victim go to waste.

The death of Trayvon Martin is a terrible thing, but the usual suspects are hijacking his death to create a morality play. Whenever this happens, and it happens with some frequency in American life, truth is corrupted.

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