What he’s really saying: Thanks for exploiting my son’s death to score cheap political points with your base.

Via Politico:

Tracy Martin, the father of slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, visited Capitol Hill on Wednesday to urge lawmakers to work to prevent the untimely death of more black children.

“To have his name slandered and demonized, I think as a father it’s really important that my message to the world, we won’t let this verdict sum up who Trayvon was,” Martin said at the first meeting of the newly-formed Congressional Caucus on Black Men and Boys. “I vow to do everything in my power to not give up the fight for him.” […]

Martin praised the comments from President Barack Obama in the aftermath of the verdict that acquitted George Zimmerman for the shooting death of his son. Martin specifically pointed to Obama saying that Trayvon could have been him 35 years earlier.

“I think the point that President Obama made was so important to the American people because obviously the most influential man on the planet is weighing in from an African-American prospective,” Martin said. “This moment and comments such as that the president made, it just sparks the conversation in every household over the dinner table.”