George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin Update

I highly suggest, before reading this post and jumping to any conclusions, reading the Wikipedia article on the Trayvon Martin shooting. It offers a fairly unbiased view of the facts in the case without spin from the media or public. 
Saturday night, around 10:00 P.M., George Zimmerman was found not guilty on the manslaughter and second degree murder charges against him, hopefully bringing closure to a situation that was tragic from the outset. We now, however, must wait for the reaction from the black community, many of whom I'm certain feel that justice was not served in this case. In this article from Jesse Lee Peterson, he describes what he calls black racism and how its become such a rampant problem in America. I won't go so far as to say that black racism killed Trayvon Martin, as he does, but I will say that his death was the culmination of a series of incredibly unfortunate events and George Zimmerman was put on trial almost exclusively due to outrage from the black community. See my previous post here. The issue has become so devisive that whites are afraid to take a stand against blacks even when the stand is warranted. My brother was fired from his job of several years as produce/deli manager at a grocery store when he reprimanded a junior black female employee for having fingernails that were too long. Apparently, they were approaching 2" and she couldn't do anything because of it. After the reprimand, she brought a complaint of racism and sexism to their HR department, whereupon he was fired. This has gotten a little out of control. Don't take any of this to mean that I don't believe white racism exists in this country, because it does. I live in the South...I'm not blind and I'm not an idiot. Not completely anyway. But it's not nearly as widespread as some would have you believe, and there is as much, if not more, racism among blacks for whites as there is among whites for blacks, especially among the youth. You may have noticed that nowhere in this post did I use the term "African-American" and you'll never hear me use it. The reason for that is because 99.999999999(whatever)percent of blacks in this country have never set foot in Africa. Nor have their parents. Or their parents parents, for that matter. I would just as soon call myself an English-Irish-German-Swedish-American. At least I've actually been to Germany. I have heard of only one instance where the use of the term African-American was justified. An exchange student from South Africa, he was running for Student Body president at his high school and used the term on his campaign posters. He was castigated and made to remove all the posters....because he was white.