I'm sorry I'm going to miss Morning Joe tomorrow...

…because this is going to make for an inter­est­ing conversation:

One wit­nesses, who has since talked to local tele­vi­sion news reporters, told police he saw Zim­mer­man on the ground with Trayvon on top, pound­ing him and was unequiv­o­cal that it was Zim­mer­man who was cry­ing for help.

Zim­mer­man then shot Trayvon once in the chest from very close range, accord­ing to authorities

That’s going to make for an inter­est­ing con­ver­sa­tion, so is this

For­mer NAACP leader C.L. Bryant is accus­ing Jesse Jack­son and Al Sharp­ton of “exploit­ing” the Trayvon Mar­tin tragedy to “racially divide this country.”

“His fam­ily should be out­raged at the fact that they’re using this child as the bait to inflame racial pas­sions,” Rev. C.L. Bryant said in a Mon­day inter­view with The Daily Caller.

And he echoed some­thing we’ve been point­ing out:

Bryant, who explores the topic of black-​on-​black crime in his new film “Run­away Slave,” said peo­ple like Jack­son and Sharp­ton are being mis­lead­ing to sug­gest there is an epi­demic of “white men killing black young men.”

“The epi­demic is truly black on black crime,” Bryant said. “The great­est dan­ger to the lives of young black men are young black men.

Legal Insur­rec­tion is still with­hold­ing judge­ment but I sus­pect that a White­house wor­ried about re-​election will play this for all it’s worth no mat­ter where the facts lead, and the clue as to why this is the case:

There was a time when the South was solidly Repub­li­can but those days are gone. Barack Obama won Vir­ginia and North Car­olina four years ago and came close to beat­ing John McCain in Geor­gia. Bill Clin­ton beat George Bush in Geor­gia, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mis­souri, Ten­nessee, Ken­tucky and West Virginia.

Romney’s con­tin­ued weak­ness in the Heart of Dixie spells trou­ble for the GOP this fall. The only ques­tion is whether it will take a San­to­rum win in Wis­con­sin to refo­cus Repub­li­can minds on the unas­sail­able fact that GOP pres­i­den­tial can­di­dates can­not win unless they have the sup­port of rock-​ribbed con­ser­v­a­tives. Mitt Rom­ney does not, and that is becom­ing clearer by the day in this painful pri­mary season.

If Rom­ney has issues with con­ser­v­a­tives in the south, a large enough Black turnout there might change the dynamic in the race.

You might ask: “Peter you’re not sug­gest­ing the Pres­i­dent would use the death of Trayvon Mar­tin as a re-​election prop?”

I really hate to say it, there was a time when I would not have, but the more I see of this pres­i­dent and the tac­tics of his allies; yes, I absolutely believe Pres­i­dent Obama would do this and it is my opin­ion that he will.

As Glenn Reynolds put it:

It does seem that way — a pre-​election period in which Al Sharp­ton and Louis Far­rakhan have high pro­files doesn’t seem opti­mal for an allegedly post-​racial Pres­i­dency. But per­haps they feel that it’s bet­ter to have peo­ple talk­ing about absolutely any­thing other than gas prices, the debt, and ObamaCare.

We elected a Chicago Machine Pol, do you really expect a Chicago machine pol to act otherwise?

Update: Remem­ber this?

Given these fig­ures and esti­mates at worst the black com­mu­nity will pro­vide a +9% for Obama and at Best +11 a dif­fer­ence on only 1 – 3 points of a vote that he won by 7.2 points.

Yet given these fig­ures the Obama admin­is­tra­tion finds the need to invest time and money in a “African-​Americans for Obama” orga­ni­za­tion where the return poten­tial return is from such a ven­ture is minis­cule sta­tis­ti­cally. That sug­gests one or both of the following:

Given the Rom­ney num­bers per­haps the attempts to boost the Black Turnout wasn’t all that odd after all.