Jesse Jackson: “Well, law without mercy is cruel and crude. Law must be informed by mercy to bring about justice.”

You look on a jury without a black and without a man, certainly not a jury of Trayvon's peers, the Department of Justice must intervene and take this case to another level.

We have an amazing tolerance for black pain and for too long after our slave ships landed in New Orleans, you know, we tolerated in the name of God slavery for 246 years.

Unfortunately, it really is a diversion. I mean, Dr. King's last birthday -- and I was with him -- focused on a new traverse expanding poverty. And, today, we look at the crisis in New Orleans having to do with those who are poor and left…

It really should be a mosaic, a multicultural mosaic.