Getting out of the technology weeds, this petition is in general a great example of taking advantage of the moment: plenty of people were really pissed off over the weekend about Zimmerman's acquittal, and NAACP (600,000 + signatures as of this writing, according to
the CNN piece above) gave them an outlet.
In the midst of all the piling on by sports writers, religion, writers,
CNN's Jeane Moos (see
above video), Johnson did receive one
piece of encouragement from another famously vocal Christian athlete.