racial-profiling

He repeatedly tried to explain to teachers and the police that the device was just a clock, but wound up in handcuffs anyway.

The government apparently doesn't consider Martin's death a civil rights issue, even as it continues weighing whether to press charges for more recent killings of unarmed black men.

It should come as no surprise that the Obama family has felt the sting of racial prejudice in their lives. The Obama presidency has been defined by race, because in America, we're all defined by race.