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When Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old Black Florida high school student, was shot to death by a neighborhood watchman, African-Americans — voters, bloggers, columnists, lawmakers, activists and academics — wanted to hear from the nation’s first Black president.
It took President Barack Obama, who was running for re-election at the time, about a month to finally weigh in.
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