[hoosiermama]

With Sanford history, I agree with the newspaper to play down race issue as much as possible. That area has been a powder keg since 2005 waiting for a match.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanford_Police_Department_(Florida)

They leave out the other incident mentioned in the Zimmerman family member's letter where George was supporting the black community in insisting that the son of a police Lt, who had beaten a homeless black, be arrested.

Tension was high before the death of Martin. Cool heads need to look at just the facts in his death, unfortunately because of the two previous incident people in the community do not trust LEO to do the right thing. GZ ironically is the scapegoat for the dysfunctional community.
The REV MSM and lawyer race baiters are throwing gas on the flame. A paper trying to minimize the issue is good IMO.

[spacejunkie2001]

I live here. There is no brewing racial tension at all. The beating of the homeless man happened quite some time ago and never garnered a FRACTION of the attention that this obama/race issue is.