Jul 14, 2013  The One Where George Zimmerman Is Not Guilty  Last
night the news came through that George Zimmerman was found not
guilty by a six woman jury (five White, one Hispanic) in the
death of Trayvon Martin.   This is very painful and troubling
situation.  It's also one where you have to try to balance the
desire to have faith in the justice system and the realization
that that faith is not always warranted or deserved.  Last night
I was watching episodes of Dr. Who, after having friends insist
for years that I watch it.  After one of the episodes, I checked
online to see if anything had updated with the Zimmerman trial,
and I saw that the verdict had come in.   And my heart dropped
at that point.  I was rendered speechless, and just stared at
the computer screen unable to really process it.  It's not like
it was unexpected, but still thinking it'll happen and then
seeing it happen is two different things.  I then went on
twitter and saw the reactions and it was just further
heartbreak. It was just thi