Why hasn't Jamiel "Jas" Shaw II, 17, a standout Los Angeles student-athlete, gunned down for the color of his skin and the red of his Spiderman backpack, received a scintilla of the mainstream media attention paid to Trayvon Martin?  Both were young black males of the same age when they were murdered.  While the details of the Travyon Martin case have been highly publicized and are widely known in part due to President Obama's comment that "if I had a son he would look like Trayvon," the Jamiel Shaw tragedy has been almost entirely ignored by the mainstream press.  As there has been a groundswell and a grassroots campaign that "black lives matter" why aren't there protest marches and cries for justice for both of these virtually identical victims of homicide?  Like Trayvon, Jamiel was walking home when he was shot in the stomach and head.  However, the glaring difference in this situation...(Read Full Post)