In another context, you would scream “racist!” if someone called Brown or Martin “boy.” Yet you refer to them as children.

They are two different individuals, involved in two very different encounters. I have no sympathy for Brown. Clearly, he didn’t listen to “the Talk” black parents supposedly give their kids.

On the other hand, both Martin and Neighborhood Watch shooter George Zimmerman were, in separate ways, victims of our decaying social order. One of the most revealing comments in the 9-1-1 tape was when Martin said, “These a—holes always get away.”

Note that Zimmerman did not say, “These n-----s always get away.” He was frustrated with rampant crime in his neighborhood. When people feel unsafe in their own homes, they arm themselves and take matters into their own hands.