Trayvon Martin was a Young Man

Trayvon Martin was a young man, not a cause.

He was a person, not a point for discussion.

Now the bereaved parents want to capitalize on the widespread grief against his sudden and controversial death.

Whether the assailant was shooting in self-defense or out of racial prejudice, the death of this child should not be another motto for the masses to run under and hide in the name of social change.

We do not need any more public lynchings, whether by force or by word, in the media today. Fresh off of protesting Wall Street, now young and old disaffected by government are demanding justice for a kid whom most people never heard of. When will these out-of-work rabble out of their minds learn that there is no power in a lot of people just raising their raging voices?

First skittles, now hoodies: everybody wants to cash in on another social phenomenon. This country has become addicted to a Twitter culture, and like twits without wits they are following every trend that bends this way and that.

When will people decide to think for themselves, to cease with the hollow moral crusades that only give people a five-minute right to yell in the street?