Shelby Steele: The Exploitation of Trayvon Martin The absurdity of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton is that they want to make a movement out of an anomaly. Black teenagers today are afraid of other black teenagers, not whites. By SHELBY STEELE Two tragedies are apparent in the Trayvon Martin case. The first is obvious: A teenager Thread started at Forum 4 Politics on 04-05-2012 08:18 PM