3. Richard S. Dunham, “Clinton Retreats to Safer Ground in New York,” Business Week, January 14, 1999, www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/jan1999/nf90114e.htm.

  4. Geoff Metcalf, “UNMASKING JESSE JACKSON,” WND, March 31, 2002, http://www.wnd.com/2002/03/13339/.

  5. Eric Hoffer, The Temper of Our Time (Titusville, NJ: Hopewell Publications, 2008)

  6. “Jesse Jackson: One Leader Among Many,” Time magazine, March 12, 2002, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,216924,00.html.

  7. Jay Leno on the Tonight Show as reported by Lowell Ponte in “Fessee, William, Martin & John,” Front Page Magazine, January 24, 2001, http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=21847

  8. “Jesse Jackson Admits Affair, Illegitimate Child,” ABC News, January 18, 2001, http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=122032&page=1.

  9. Wayne Barrett, “What Al Did to Jesse,” Village Voice, November 30, 2004, http://www.villagevoice.com/2004-11-30/news/what-al-did-to-jesse/full/.

  10. Craig Franklin, “Media myths about the Jena 6,” Christian Science Monitor, October 24, 2007, http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1024/p09s01-coop.html.

  11. Ben Jealous, in an interview by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez on Democracy Now, March 22, 2012, http://www.democracynow.org/2012/3/22/naacps_ben_jealous_justice_for_trayvon.

  12. Ibid.

  13. Rene Lynch, “Trayvon Martin case: ‘Blacks are under attack,’ says Jesse Jackson,” Los Angeles Times, March 23, 2012, http://articles.latimes.com/2012/mar/23/nation/la-nann-trayvon-martin-case-jesse-jackson-20120323.

  14. “Jackson, Sharpton to Lead March for Trayvon Martin,” WESH.com, March 26, 2012. http://www.wesh.com/trayvon-martin-extended-coverage/Jackson-Sharpton-To-Lead-March-For-Trayvon-Martin/-/14266478/13118498/-/kg8o4v/-/index.html.

  15. Paul Glastris and Jeannye Thornton, “A New Civil Rights Frontier,” U.S. News & World Report, July 19, 2013, http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/940117/archive_012245.htm.

  16. Ibid.

  17. Jeffrey Goldberg, “The Color of Suspicion,” New York Times magazine, June 20, 1999, http://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/20/magazine/the-color-of-suspicion.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm.

  18. Glastris and Thornton, “A New Civil Rights Frontier.”

  CHAPTER 11: OBLIGING THE MOB

  1. Rene Stultzman and Jeff Weiner, “Sanford police chief steps down temporarily amid criticism for handling of Trayvon Martin case,” Orlando Sentinel, March 22, 2012. http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-03-22/news/os-trayvon-martin-sanford-chief-20120322_1_evidence-backs-shooting-death-police-academy

  2. Madison Gray, “Trayvon Martin Killing: Prosecutor Orders Probe as Calls for Justice Rise,” Time, March 21, 2012, newsfeed.time.com/2012/03/21/trayvon-martin-killing-prosecutor-orders-probe-as-calls-for-justice-rise/print/.

  3. Trymaine Lee, “Trayvon Martin Case: State Attorney Quits Investigation as State Studies ‘Stand Your Ground’ Law,” Huffington Post, March 23, 2012, www.huffington-post.com/2012/03/22/trayvon-martin-state-attorney_n_1374206.html.

  4. Attorney General Pam Bondi, in a press conference discussing the Trayvon Martin case, March 20, 2012, http://www.fsunews.com/VideoNetwork/1520870466001/Attorney-General-Pam-Bondi-discusses-the-Trayvon-Martin-case.

  5. “Key Players: Bernie de la Rionda,” WKMG Local 6, March 26, 2013, www.clickorlando.com/news/Key-Players-Bernie-de-la-Rionda/-/1637132/19394606/-/view/print/-/pih62rz/-/index.html.

  6. Julie Stewart, “Florida Gun Law Gives Disabled Vet the ‘TSA Treatment’,” Huffington Post, June 8, 2012, www.huffingtonpost.com/julie-stewart/florida-gun-law-gives-dis_b_1575803.html?view=print&comm_ref=false.

  7. “Florida woman sentenced to 20 years in controversial warning shot case,” CNN, May 11, 2012, www.cnn.com/2012/05/11/justice/florida-stand-ground-sentencing.

  8. Roland S. Martin, “Mandatory Minimums the Problem in the Marissa,” Roland Martin Reports blog, May 11, 2012, rolandmartinreports.com/blog/2012/05/roland-s-martin-mandatory-minimums-the-problem-in-the-marissa-alexander-case/.

  9. “Florida woman sentenced to 20 years in controversial warning shot case.”

  10. Congresswoman Corrine Brown reporting on her House Web page, April 11, 2012, http://corrinebrown.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=645:congresswoman-corrine-brown-extremely-relieved-that-george-zimmerman-will-face-criminal-charges-in-death-of-trayvon-martin-&catid=3:press-releases&Itemid=35.

  11. Roland Martin, “Is Trayvon Martin’s death the catalyst of a new movement?” CNN, April 15, 2012, http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/14/opinion/roland-martin-florida-case.

  12. Rick Scott, news release, March 22, 2012, http://www.flgov.com/2012/03/22/governor-rick-scott-announces-new-state-attorney-and-task-force-in-response-to-trayvon-martin-incident/.

  CHAPTER 12: BEGETTING A SON

  1. Julie Bosman, “Obama Sharply Assails Absent Black Fathers,” New York Times, June 16, 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/16/us/politics/15cnd-obama.html?_r=0.

  2. Senator Barack Obama in a Father’s Day speech at the Apostolic Church of God, June 15, 2008, http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/205980-1.

  3. Ibid.

  4. Susan Duclos, “Is Jesse Jackson a Hypocrite for Using the Word ‘Nigger’?” Digital Journal, July 16, 2008, http://digitaljournal.com/article/257506#ixzz2OUMB6TLb

  5. “Jesse Jackson Used N-Word In Obama Remarks,” CBS News, June 18, 2009, http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-250_162-4266693.html.

  6. Suzanne Goldenberg, “US election 2008: ‘I want to cut his nuts out’—Jackson gaffe turns focus on Obama’s move to the right,” Guardian, July 10, 2008, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/11/barackobama.uselections2008.

  7. Ibid.

  8. Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (New York: Crown, 2007), xvi.

  9. Ibid., 93.

  10. Barack Obama, in a speech at the Brown Chapel A.M.E. church to commemorate the forty-second anniversary of Bloody Sunday, March 4, 2007, Chicago Sun-Times blog Voices, http://voices.suntimes.com/early-and-often/sweet/obamas-selma-speech-text-as-de/.

  11. Yvette Carnell, “Why Obama Shouldn’t Personally Intervene in the Trayvon Martin Case,” Your Black World (blog), March 24, 2012, http://www.yourblackworld.net/2012/03/uncategorized/yvette-carnell-why-obama-shouldnt-personally-intervene-in-the-trayvon-martin-case/.

  12. Emanuel Cleaver, in a formal statement, reported by Arelis R. Hernández and Rene Stutzman in “Sanford officials, Rep. Corrine Brown meet with Justice officials in Washington,” Orlando Sentinel, March 20, 2012, http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-03-20/news/os-trayvon-martin-doj-investigation-20120320_1_shooting-sanford-church-sanford-officials.

  13. Barack Obama in a press conference in the White House Rose Garden on March 23, 2012, as reported by Stacia Deshishku, “President Obama statement on Trayvon Martin case,” The 1600 Report (White House blog), http://whitehouse.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/23/president-obama-statement-on-trayvon-martin-case/.

  14. Ibid.

  15. Sundance, “Gag-A-Maggot Opportunism—President Obama Says ‘If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon’,” The Last Refuge (blog), March 23, 2012, http://theconservative-treehouse.com/2012/03/23/gag-a-maggot-opportunism-president-obama-says-if-i-had-a-son-hed-look-like-trayvon/.

  16. Tracy Jan, “Harvard professor Gates arrested at Cambridge home,” Boston Globe, July 20, 2009, http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/07/harvard.html.

  17. Lynn Sweet, “Obama tells Lynn Sweet police acted “stupidly” in arresting Gates,” Chicago Sun-Times, July 22, 2009, http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2009/07/obama_tells_lynn_sweet_police.html.

  18. “Friends and police rally behind Sgt. James Crowley, who arrested Harvard professor,” Metro West Daily News, July 24, 2009, http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/news/x905592581/Friends-and-police-rally-behind-Sgt-James-Crowley-who-arrested-Harvard-professor#axzz2VjaVvCCE.

  19. Newt Gingrich, speaking on the Sean Hannity Show as reported by Matthew Shelley, in the article “Gingrich Calls Obama Comments on Trayvon Martin Shooting ‘Disgraceful’,” National Journal, March 23, 2012, http://www.nationaljournal.com/2012-presidential-campaign/gingrich-calls-obama-comments-on-trayvon-martin-shooting-disgraceful-20120323.

  20. Heather Mac Donald, “Why Manipulate the Tragedy of Trayvon Martin?” National Review, March 25, 2012, http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/294357/why-manipu-late-tragedy-trayvon-martin-heather-mac-donald.

  21. Robert VerBruggen, “Standing Your Ground and Vigilantism,” National Review Online, March 21, 2012, http://drupal6.nationalreview.com/articles/294006/standing-your-ground-and-vigilantism-robert-verbruggen.

  22. Rich Lowry, “Shocker! Sharpton is right for once,” New York Post, March 24, 2012, http://nypost.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/viewer.aspx.

  23. Mark and Sondra Osterman, Defending Our Friend: the Most Hated Man in America (Mustang, OK: Tate, 2013), 43.

  24. Ibid., 55–56.

  CHAPTER 13: REMOVING THE SCALES

  1. Karen Franklin and Ari Odzer, “Father Wants Man Who Shot His Son Arrested,” NBC Miami, March 9, 2012, http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Father-Wants-Man-Who-Shot-His-Son-Arrested-142067953.html

  2. Monique Madan, Charles Rabin, and Frances Robles, “Sanford shooting victim’s parents want to keep national attention on case,” Miami Herald, March 16, 2012, http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2012-03-16/news/mh-trayvon-martin-0317-20120316_1_sanford-shooting-dispute-police-version-press-conference.

  3. Bianca Prieto and Robert Nolin, “Tensions still simmer in Trayvon Martin shooting case,” Orlando Sentinel, March 17, 2012, http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-03-17/news/os-trayvon-martin-shooting-tension-20120317_1_shooting-death-english-teacher-uncle.

  4. Audra D. S. Burch and Larua Isensee, “Trayvon Martin: a typical teen who loved video games, looked forward to prom,” Miami Herald, March 22, 2012, http://www.miami-herald.com/2012/03/22/v-fullstory/2708960/trayvon-martin-a-typical-teen.html.

  5. John H. Richardson, “Trayvon,” Esquire, November 13, 2012, http://www.esquire.com/features/americans-2012/trayvon-martin-1212-2.

  6. “Two Neighbors Testify in George Zimmerman Trial; Interview with Trayvon’s Step-mother,” Anderson Cooper 360°, June 28, 2013, http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1306/28/acd.01.html.

  7. Ibid.

  8. Tracy Martin’s Facebook page 2010, reported in Sundance post “Trayvon Martin—Perhaps the Inconsistencies from Tracy and Sybrina are more easily explained . . .” at The Last Refuge (blog), June 23, 2012, http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2012/06/23/trayvon-martin-perhaps-the-inconsistencies-from-tracy-and-sybrina-are-more-easily-explained/.

  9. Richardson, “Trayvon.”

  10. Frances Robles, “Multiple suspensions paint complicated portrait of Trayvon Martin,” March 26, 2012, http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/03/26/2714778/thousands-expected-at-trayvon.html.

  11. Ibid.

  12. Ibid.

  13. David Carr, “TV Corrects Itself, Just Not on the Air,” New York Times, April 22, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/23/business/media/tv-news-corrects-itself-just-not-on-the-air.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0.

  14. Dan Barry et al., “Race, Tragedy and Outrage Collide after a Shot in Florida,” New York Times, April 1, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/02/us/trayvon-martin-shooting-prompts-a-review-of-ideals.html?_r=5&hp=&pagewanted=all&.

  15. “Complete Transcript, Serino Interview, 2/29/2012, Tape 1,” txandimedia, https://www.txantimedia.com/?p=1025.

  16. “Pot traces behind Trayvon Martin suspension,” CBS News/AP, March 26, 2012, http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57404664/pot-traces-behind-trayvon-martin-suspension/.

  17. Elizabeth Belsom Johnson and Rachel E. Fugate, “Access to Juvenile Records and Proceedings,” Florida Bar Association, updated November 2004, https://www.floridabar.org/DIVCOM/PI/RHandbook01.nsf/1119bd38ae090a748525676f0053b606/dc411ea99845604a852569cb004c9bf9!OpenDocument.

  18. Sundance, “Part I—Revealing the Trayvon Martin Coverup—M-DSPD and Former Police Chief Hurley,” The Last Refuge (blog), April 12, 2013, http://theconservative-treehouse.com/2013/04/12/part-i-revealing-the-trayvon-martin-coverup-m-dspd-and-former-police-chief-hurley/.

  19. Sworn Statement of Commander Deanna Fox-Williams, May 1, 2012, p. 62, http://www.scribd.com/doc/135692728/Affidavit-From-Commander-Deanna-Fox-Williams.

  20. Sworn Statement of Sergeant William Tagle, May 3, 2012, p. 51, http://www.scribd.com/doc/135564937/Sergeant-William-Tagle-Internal-Affairs-Investigative-Report.

  21. Steve Litz and Edward B. Colby, “Miami-Dade Schools Police Chief Reassigned, District Says,” NBC 6, May 22, 2012, http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Miami-Dade-Schools-Police-Chief-Reassigned-District-Says-152359695.html.

  22. Sworn Statement of Sergeant Tagle, p. 87.

  23. Sworn Statement of Commander Fox-Williams, p. 58.

  24. Police Chief Charles J. Hurley in a Department of Juvenile Justice press release, as reported in the Tampa Bay Times, February 3, 2012, http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/gradebook/content/djj-fewer-delinquents-florida-schools.

  25. Sworn Statement of Sergeant Tagle, p. 51.

  26. White House Press Release, “President Obama Signs New Initiative to Improve Educational Outcomes for African Americans,” July 26, 2012, http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/07/26/president-obama-signs-new-initiative-improve-educational-outcomes-africa.

  27. “Thousands gather at Miami rally for Trayvon Martin, Times Leader,” February 16. 2013, http://timesleader.com/stories/Thousands-gather-at-Miami-rally-for-Trayvon-Martin,131980?t=f&print=1.

  28. Marc Caputo, “Jesse Jackson’s false sermon on Trayvon Martin,” Miami Herald blog, April 30, 2012, http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2012/04/jesse-jacksons-false-sermon-on-trayvon-martin.html.

  29. Carr, “TV Corrects Itself, Just Not on the Air.”

  30. Sundance, in interviews by the author by phone and e-mail, May 5–6, 2013.

  31. “Was Trayvon Martin a Drug Dealer?” posted by Dan-Linehan on Wagist (blog), March 25, 2012, http://www.wagist.com/2012/dan-linehan/was-trayvon-martin-a-drug-dealer.

  32. “Zimmerman Defense Receives Trayvon Martin’s School Records,” January 16, 2013, http://www.gzlegalcase.com/index.php/press-releases/80-zimmerman-defense-receives-trayvon-martin-s-school-records.

  CHAPTER 14: PICKING THE WRONG FIGHT

  1. “Did Trayvon Martin Referee School Fights?” posted by Dan Linehan on Wagist (blog) April 1, 2012, http://www.wagist.com/2012/dan-linehan/did-trayvon-martin-referee-school-fights.

  2. Dylan Stableford, “Trayvon Martin shooting: New details emerge from Twitter account, witness testimony,” The Cutline (Yahoo! News blog), March 26, 2012, http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/cutline/trayvon-martin-shooting-details-emerge-facebook-twitter-accounts-180103647.html.

  3. Lineman, “Did Trayvon Martin Referee School Fights?”

  4. David Martosko, “The Daily Caller obtains Trayvon Martin’s tweets,” Daily Caller, March 26, 2012, http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/26/the-daily-caller-obtains-trayvon-martins-tweets/.

  5. Rene Stutzman, “Police: Zimmerman says Trayvon decked him with one blow then began hammering his head,” Orlando Sentinel, March 26, 2012, http://articles.orland-osentinel.com/2012-03-26/news/os-trayvon-martin-zimmerman-account-20120326_1_miami-schools-punch-unarmed-black-teenager.

  6. David Martosko, “Second Trayvon Martin Twitter feed identified,” Daily Caller, March 29, 2012, http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/29/second-trayvon-martin-twitter-feed-identified/.

  7. “Bloggers Cherry-Pick from Social Media to Cast Trayvon Martin as a Menace,” posted by Robert Mackey on the Lede, a New York Times blog, March 29, 2012, http://the-lede.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/29/bloggers-cherry-pick-from-social-media-to-cast-trayvon-martin-as-a-menace/.

  8. “Gawker Will Be Conducting an Experiment, Please Enjoy Your Free Cute Cats Singing and Sideboobs,” posted by AJ Daulerio to Gawker, January 23, 2012, http://gawker.com/5878065/gawker-will-be-conducting-an-experiment-please-enjoy-your-free-cute-cats-singing-and-sideboobs.

  9. “White Supremacist Hacks Trayvon Martin’s Email Account, Leaks Messages Online,” posted by Adrian Chen to Gawker on March 29, 2012, http://gawker.com/5897485/white-supremacist-hacks-trayvon-martins-email-account-leaks-messages-online.

  10. Arelis Hernandez and Jon Busdeker, “Trayvon marchers: ‘We want an arrest. Shot in the chest’,” Orlando Sentinel, March 31, 2012, http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-03-31/news/os-trayvon-martin-naacp-march-sanford-20120331_1_trayvon-marchers-arrest-chest.

  11. “Trayvon Martin compared to Jesus Christ, reference scrubbed from news reports,” Examiner, April 1, 2012. http://www.examiner.com/article/trayvon-martin-compared-to-jesus-christ-reference-scrubbed-from-news-reports

  12. Sundance, “Trayvon Martin was apparently a 17 year old undisciplined punk thug, drug dealing, thief and wannabe gangsta . . . ,” The Last Refuge (blog), March 27, 2012, http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2012/03/27/trayvon-martin-was-apparently-a-17-year-old-undisciplined-punk-thug-drug-dealing-thief-and-wannabe-gangsta/.

  13. “Update: Trayvon Martin—the Latest,” The Last Refuge (blog), March 31, 2012, http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2012/03/31/update-trayvon-martin-the-latest-media-narrative-continues-to-crumble-under-the-weight-of-their-false-narrative-of-events/

  CHAPTER 15: NETWORKS BEHAVING BADLY

  1. Alicia Shepard, “The iconic photos of Trayvon Martin & George Zimmerman & why you may not see the others,” Poynter, March 30, 2012, http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/top-stories/168391/the-iconic-photos-of-trayvon-martin-george-zimmerman-why-you-may-not-see-the-others/.

  2. Tom Burton, “Behind the photos of the Trayvon Martin case,” Orlando Sentinel, June 19, 2012, http://www.orlandosentinel.com/videogallery/69125947/News/Behind-the-photos-of-the-Trayvon-Martin-case.

  3. Alicia Shepard, “The iconic photos of Trayvon Martin & George Zimmerman.”