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Massive mural memorializing slain Florida teen Trayvon Martin is going up in East New York
The New York Daily News ^ | July 2, 2012 | Simone Weichselbaum

Posted on 07/06/2012 11:34:57 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The city’s first known Trayvon Martin mural is going up on a wall of an East New York laundromat - adding to a brewing campaign to make sure history doesn’t snub the slain teen’s image.

Teenage boys will start painting the 100-foot picture July 16 on New Lots Laundromat’s wall underneath the elevated tracks of the IRT No. 3 train.

The East New York mural will join a growing list of similar street art popping up in black neighborhoods across the country.

“We want him to become a martyr, and it’s sad that we even have to say that,” said Catherine Green, executive director of ARTs East New York Inc., who is overseeing the project.

“We want to see change coming out of this. People see a young man with a hoodie and they think he is a criminal.”

The seven young painters will show off the outline for the giant image in mid-July but are set on drawing Martin dressed in the his famed sweatshirt.

“It goes back to hip-hop and how people dress. When you see that hoodie, it signifies what people think about our young men in our community,” Green said.

Neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman gunned down the hoodie-clad Florida teen in February telling cops he thought the boy appeared suspicious.

Initially, authorities didn’t arrest Zimmerman, citing the state’s controversial “Stand Your Ground” law. A national debate on racial profiling ensued and officials later charged Zimmerman with second degree murder.

Martin snapped a picture of himself in a gray hoodie before his death. The image went viral as buzz surrounding the case intensified and is now on countless t-shirts and posters.

State Sen. Eric Adams (D-Crown Heights) used the picture on a June 7 flyer inviting young Brooklynites to a rally against a floundering Stand Your Ground bill stalled in Albany.

“The story of Trayvon Martin will find its way into the history books,” Adams said. “It symbolizes the frustration and anger of young men of color losing their lives — by their own hands, by the hands of the police, and by vigilante groups.”

The Martin family copyrighted their son’s hoodie photo earlier this month, along with the phrases “Trayvon Martin,” “I am Trayvon Martin,” and “Justice for Trayvon Martin,” said Michael Hall, co-founder of the Justice for Trayvon Martin Foundation, an advocacy group tied to Martin’s legal team.

“We want to stop people from making a profit from [the image],” said Hall, explaining that while he was unaware of the East New York mural, he doesn’t have a problem with the plan.

Still, Hall was skeptical about whether street art will push history book authors to include the Trayvon Martin case.

“History will dictate what it wants to acknowledge. They will dictate what they want to pay attention to,” Hall said.


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Local News; The Guild; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: 2manythugs; 2memorializeathug; 2wannabes; art; blackkk; eastnewyork; florida; georgezimmerman; newyork; newyorkcity; painting; trayvon; trayvonmartin; zimmerman
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To: zencycler

Unite the colored crowd... in hatred of whitey.


21 posted on 07/07/2012 12:20:15 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (let me ABOs run loose, lew)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Race War against White


22 posted on 07/07/2012 12:23:19 AM PDT by 4rcane
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I have to agree with the Left, that America is extremely racist. Its racist against white. Theres a group, esp the media that automatically assume the white is guilty


23 posted on 07/07/2012 12:32:19 AM PDT by 4rcane
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We used to honor astronauts and people who did great things.

Now we honor thugs and lowlives.

Isn’t Obamaland great? :)


24 posted on 07/07/2012 12:32:39 AM PDT by Tzimisce (THIS SUCKS)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s looking more and more like George Zimmerman is going to be the one who is the martyr. How much do you want to bet that this mural will be paid for with “stimulus” money.


25 posted on 07/07/2012 12:35:40 AM PDT by albionin (A gawn fit's aye gettin.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
“We want to see change coming out of this. People see a young man with a hoodie and they think he is a criminal.”

And people see my white skin and based solely on that, assume I'm a racist.


26 posted on 07/07/2012 12:37:48 AM PDT by Tzimisce (THIS SUCKS)
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To: Lancey Howard
Will the mural show Trayvon wearing a hoodie, flipping the finger, and mixing Robitussen with Arizona Watermelon Tea and Skittles to make a “lean” brew?

That would be very good, but to more fully convey Trayvon Martin's nobility of character, it might be more effective for the mural to show Martin straddling Zimmerman, hammering his bloody head into the ground.

27 posted on 07/07/2012 12:39:09 AM PDT by TChad
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

America went black (0bama) and never came back.


28 posted on 07/07/2012 12:40:58 AM PDT by GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
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To: Tzimisce

0bama always had a problem with the word ‘NASA’.


29 posted on 07/07/2012 12:42:39 AM PDT by GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
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To: Lancey Howard

.............Will the mural show Trayvon wearing a hoodie, flipping the finger,..................

and, I hope the mural painters done buy themselves lottsa gold paint, to fully memorialize his gold grills and gold necklaces.


30 posted on 07/07/2012 12:49:42 AM PDT by Noob1999 (Loose Lips, Sink Ships)
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To: Noob1999

Saint Skittles of the Purple Drank - what an iconic figure for the Big Sh*tty.


31 posted on 07/07/2012 12:55:25 AM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is necessary to examine principles."...the public interest)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Have the ROBBERIES STOPPED in that neighborhood since he died?? I always wondered if he was the ROBBER......that would be something if he was.


32 posted on 07/07/2012 2:17:41 AM PDT by Ann Archy ( ABORTION...the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I wish someone did a mural of Zimmerman! Wouldn’t that be a hoot to see the libs flip! Pass the popcorn!


33 posted on 07/07/2012 2:24:26 AM PDT by winner3000 (ss)
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To: Ann Archy

Were there really robberies? Was there a description of the robber?


34 posted on 07/07/2012 2:34:33 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

LOTS of robberies......don’t know what the description they had.......young black man would not surprise me, though.


35 posted on 07/07/2012 2:59:04 AM PDT by Ann Archy ( ABORTION...the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Common sense?


36 posted on 07/07/2012 3:04:44 AM PDT by Salamander (I wanna hurt you just to hear you screaming my name.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There are 8 million stories in Bizzaro city, this has been one of them.


37 posted on 07/07/2012 4:12:17 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft ( WHO WE ELECT AS PRESIDENT IS NOT AS IMPORTANT AS WHO THEY APPOINT.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
We want him to become a martyr

Horst Wessel was also made a martyr.


38 posted on 07/07/2012 4:13:57 AM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

OH Yeah, you can bet the mural will portray him as a 10-12 yr. old too.


39 posted on 07/07/2012 4:14:43 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft ( WHO WE ELECT AS PRESIDENT IS NOT AS IMPORTANT AS WHO THEY APPOINT.)
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To: Ann Archy
Have the ROBBERIES STOPPED in that neighborhood since he died?? I always wondered if he was the ROBBER

Actually I always wondered (Ok just since reading your post) if Zimmerman was the ROBBER. I mean: patrolling watchman, perfect cover, he could learn who didn't lock their houses, when they were out. Then load the loot into his little truck and take it out of the community to fence.

or


40 posted on 07/07/2012 4:16:57 AM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Literals will believe anything.)
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