Man of God or man of politics?

I have never pretended to be an especialy religious person, that doesnt mean that I dont worship in my own way or that I dont have faith, just I am not as obvious about it as some people.  This week people around the country reacted with disgust at the death in Florida of a young man who at least according to initial accounts just happened to be walking down the street in the wrong neighborhood.  The early reports tried to portray his killer as an evil racist and the young man as an innocent victim, as time passes we learn that perhaps things werent quite that black and white.  As it turns out the victim, named Trayvon was no angel, he has a fairly extensive criminal record, thats not saying he deserved to get shot, but he's not the boy scout that he was made out to be at first.  The police havent yet made an arrest in the case because so far the facts have pointed to it being a case of self defense, I'm not going to argue the merrits as to weather the shooter should be arrested or not.  Not long after the story became national news, who should show up and start exploiting this tragedy for his own benefit?  You guessed it...the Reverand Al Sharpton.  I have never really understood Sharpton, he tries to present himself as a man of God and I was taught to believe that God loves all of his children.  Yet Reverand Al only shows up when something bad happens to an African American person and then only when its something that he can use to get his own name in the papers.  Tragedy happens to people of caucasian people too, sometimes African Americans kill white people, where is the Reverand then?  A true man of God cares for all people regardless of race, creed or color not just the ones who can further his political agenda.