Posted on 02/17/2015 2:28:08 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
As Trayvon Martin is remembered almost three years after his death at the hands of George Zimmerman, some are using his name to describe how Muslim Americans might feel after the Chapel Hill shooting. But friends and family only want to focus on ending racism, and some believe the focus should be on unity and not what divides.
In a related report by the Inquisitr, some people thought the St. Louis hoodie ban law was a Trayvon Martin backlash and claimed racial discrimination.
Speaking on MSNBC, Chris Hayes gave this thoughts on the recent killing of three Muslim students in North Carolina by declaring the Chapel Hill shooting to be a “Trayvon Martin moment.” Hayes says the “unfathomable tragedy” has become “a rallying point both across the world with Palestinans protesting the killings outside U.N. headquarters in Gaza City today and here at home, with a outpouring of support for the three promising, young Muslim-Americans.”
Hayes then went on to explain why the incident could be equated to Trayvon Martin.
“It feels to me, as someone observing this admittedly from the outside, like a galvanizing moment for Muslim Americans — a Trayvon Martin moment, a Michael Brown moment — for Muslim America,” Hayes said, according to Newsbusters.
“Like the killing of Trayvon Martin or Michael Brown, the senseless deaths of these three young people has struck such a profound nerve and mobilized so many because millions of people who look like those victims are fed up with the routine stereotyping, the marginalization in mainstream media representations and the vilification by political leaders seeking to score cheap political points.”
Trayvon Martin died on February 26, 2012. This anniversary was commemorated by the Trayvon Martin Foundation’s third annual Trayvon Martin Remembrance Weekend with a Peace Walk. Event director Troy Wright says the focus should be on unity and the end of racism in America.
“We’re here to celebrate unity, we’re here to celebrate peace,” he said according to WSVN.
“It’s about Trayvon Martin and letting the world know that we haven’t forgotten about him. And it’s so beautiful, because we have so many people that have come together to say, ‘You know what? We’re all about justice, we’re all about peace, and we’re all about empowerment for our young people.”
Sybrina Fulton, Trayvon’s mother, attended the event and said she thinks about her son every day, and wishes he could have celebrated his 20th birthday on February 5, 2015.
Delusions
Oh who freaking cares about how Muzzies feel about Chapel Hill. What about how we feel about 911, Ft. Hood, the beheading in Oklahoma and countless other crimes against Christians!
There are no `Muslim Americans’, there are only Muslims in America, of whom half are on record saying they want Shariah rule. The other half isn’t talking.
Shariah says no weapons are permitted for “infidels”. But the number of “infidels” with CWPs continues to grow.
This isn’t Egypt, Pakistan, or Europe.
Raytheon or whatever the one-off name is got himself killed because that “girlfriend” on the phone told him that the Hispanico-White was gay and would get his baby brother, according to Rush H. Limbaugh.
MSNBC, a hot steaming pile
ISIS engages in the same activities that the scumbag so-called prophet Mohammed engaged in and demanded of his followers.
And it’s true that not all Muslim majority-Muslim countries are quite so violent as ISIS. Still, there is no Muslim-majority country that recognizes basic human rights, particularly the rights of women.
When they start allowing Catholic churches and Jewish synagogues to be built in Mecca, and when they allow the establishment of restaurants that sell southern American barbecue, I’ll be willing to consider whether Muslims have rights.
Until then, forget it. If they want their rights recognized, the first thing they need to do is to renounce Islam and stop being Muslims.
Gee, my son was a victim, too. Not a gang banger, but 1/2 Asian. His mistake was to do very well in school, get a college scholarship in engineering at VCU and join the Marine Corps Reserve at an inopportune time.
Had I taught him to salute with his middle finger and bought him some gold teeth, things might have gone better.
“...some are using his name to describe how Muslim Americans might feel after the Chapel Hill shooting...”
Fair comparison. Both groups were outraged unnecessarily over misrepresentations of the facts, and refused to listen to reason.
Patrick’s elevator is stuck in the basement.
Complete gibberish. How did this moron get a job as a writer?
Trayvon Martin was a Muslim just waiting for the call, he just didn’t know he was already one in his heart. With a little training in the arts of urban guerrilla warfare, he would have made an excellent mujahid’, a dedicated Islamic jihadist.
Maybe he can be elevated to the status of a martyr. This will certainly recruit a lot more disaffected black youth, and give meaning to their lives.
I would include the < /sarcasm > tag, but this is probably way closer to the truth than anybody could find comfortable.
Part of a drive to convince a significant US voter bloc that they have common cause with various Middle East terrorist groups.
I wish George had stayed in his truck so we’d never have heard of this piece of trash.
George was/is a sheepdog. No good deed goes unpunished.
3 years? Really? I guess all these stupid race things have blended together in my mind.
get over it, the thug bastard is dead.
Delusions
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