The Trayvon Martin Case

The media certainly believes that George Zimmerman - the "white" Hispanic - is guilty of murder in the case of the unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin.

So much so that when they share photographs of Martin, they always show the same one, one that is 3 years old and shows him as a baby faced 12 or 13 year old.

At the time he died, Martin was 17 years old and six feet tall. (But he was apparently only 140 pounds, which would have made him a beanpole football player, not a massive defensive back).

And that's what I find curious. I can understand the Zimmerman's not wanting to give a current photo of their son (he's apparently lost a lot of weight since the photo the newspapers use was taken), but Martin? Why use a 3-year old photograph for him? Why never show a current photograph?

The coverage of the Martin case is never-ending and on the national stage - but the coverage of all the black teens that have been killed since Martin's death - that has only been mentioned in local press. Yet since Martin's death at least 4 black adults have died, and 30 more wounded, some critically. (2 of them were killed, and 14 wounded, at a funeral!).

Why is it their deaths haven't made national headlines? Why is their no national outrage over their deaths?