Two things are growing increasingly bothersome to me about this story.
1) The celebrities who are all jumping on the bandwagon to "lend their support" to the cause. I'm watching CNN right now and Chaka Kahn is on Peirce Morgan's show pimping a song she recorded as a tribute to this story. She makes a point of saying she's not doing this to make any money. Sure, but you're certainly interested in pimping your career in general, aren't you? Does anyone even know who you are anymore?
2) Trayvon's case is horrible, but I can't help but feel upset by the fact that if all of these celebrities paid this much attention to the problems of the black community on a regular basis, maybe we wouldn't have all these black kids murdering each other in the streets of our cities on a daily basis. I live near Chicago, and kids like Trayvon die on a near daily basis from guns. Yet I don't see Chaka Khan showing up to talk about that. I don't see Lebron and the Miami Heat players talking about that. It's only when they can get their names mentioned in a high profile case, that suddenly they're all aboard the statement train. There is so much that could be done to stamp out nonsense in the inner cities, like "no snitching", and other such insanity.