“I could have been Trayvon Martin!”

 

 

 
By Nicholas Stix

That sarcastic quip was from a certain 13-year-old I know who neither is black, nor calls himself such, who had seen a certain speech on TV earlier today.

The irony-deficient John Doe calling himself “Barack Obama” failed to realize that he was setting himself up, yet again, to be the national butt of jokes—among Americans, that is.