Two weeks ago, I had breakfast with George Zimmerman — yes, that George Zimmerman, the Florida man whose life was ruined by a national media eager, as always, to highlight the killing of a black person by a white man.
Within a week or two of Trayvon Martin’s death, the media had transformed the innocent, Hispanic, Obama-supporting civil rights activist Zimmerman into the poster child for white nationalism.
In my 2013 book, “If I Had a Son”: Race, Guns, and the Railroading of George Zimmerman, I document all the editing tricks Big Media — NBC, ABC, CNN, the New York Times — used to pull off this evil alchemy. As a result, ten years after his acquittal, having narrowly survived one assassination attempt, Zimmerman continues to live a life in the shadows.
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