Trayvon Martin was an honor student with no criminal record, who may have smoked weed like so many other teenagers, but was on his way to college for aeronautics. George Zimmerman had previously been arrested for vandalism, assaulting a police officer, and domestic violence, and has since been arrested for two separate cases of domestic violence, threatening his girlfriend and her father with the same gun he used to kill Trayvon Martin, and a road rage incident where he threatened someone else with that same gun.

Mike Brown had no criminal record, was regarded as a “gentle giant” by everyone who knew him, refused to play football because it was too violent, and offered to come back and pray with a construction worker he spoke to on the way to the store the morning he was killed. He smoked weed, but again, so do many teenagers. Darren Wilson started his career in a police department so brutal and racist that it was disbanded, has a history of racial profiling and police brutality, and threatened to arrest someone for filming him. According to Anonymous, he’s part of the Ghoul Squad, a group of cops that are secretly KKK members.

And yet who does the media paint as heroes in these cases? Who do they paint as demons and monsters? This country is disgusting in how it deals with race. White supremacy is alive and well.