Sharpton on Trayovn Martin killing: Let's not waste this 'opportunity'!

The headline on this post is almost the exact same as the one that appeared above Rev. Al Sharpton's guest column on the Huffington Post yesterday: "From Rodney King to Trayvon Martin: Let's Not Miss Another Opportunity to Progress."

Trayvon Martin's death should be seen as an "opportunity," okay?

From Sharpton's column, which compares the "opportunity" created by the killing of Martin and the beating of Rodney King in 1992:

[I]t was a man by the name of George Holliday (of Argentinian descent), who shot the infamous footage of King's beating. Holliday knew instinctively that what he captured was troubling, and when police failed to do something about the incident he videotaped, Holliday went to the press and soon everyone saw the atrocity for him or herself. So when the not-guilty verdicts against the four accused officers were read some 20 years ago, all of us should have been united in our response. Race should not have been a factor; we needed to rally around the issue of police brutality and injustice. It was a missed opportunity. We cannot allow that to happen again.

Omg.

[Huffington Post]