'If I had a Son': Race, Guns, and the Railroading of George Zimmerman

by Jack Cashill

“If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon,” President Barack Obama said in March 2012 about the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin four weeks earlier.  In so saying, Obama gave the White House imprimatur to a politically irresistible campaign that both stoked the grievances of his racially sensitive base and energized his party’s gun-control advocates.    That the shooting took place in Florida, the most highly contested state in that year’s presidential election, made its politicization all the more inevitable. From the start, major media worked overtime to convict shooter George Zimmerman in the court of public opinion. To promote their grudge against guns and their skewed view of race, the media ignored or denied the truth. In another time and place, they might have succeeded, but in the age of social media, their carefully crafted narrative has been thoroughly picked apart. 'If I Had A Son' is a thrill-packed David and Goliath story, the ending of which is still not known.

336 pages, Hardcover

First published July 30, 2013

Reviews

[Rebecca · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very good read and appreciated the non-biased facts presented. Provides a more clear view of the actual incidents, many of which were misrepresented by the media and most, if not all, omitted.

[Lloyd Cox · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the best researched and published stories of our time. Spoiler- A good man volunteers to do neighborhood watch for a community that has suffered burglaries . When he is attacked and beaten near to death he stops the assaulting battery and saves his life by firing his gun which results in the death of the criminal attacker. The news media twists the story so badly that the neighborhood watch hero is made to look like a murderous villain. The truth is slow to come forth do the medias misrepresentation of the facts. Many people such as influential Politian's and Hollywood stars lead the faults facts, promoting in ignorance the misrepresented story. Jack Cashill's book is a great revealing of the truth, the facts and exposes how influential people can be mislead like sheep.