Posted on 12/14/2014 6:40:28 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Their sons -- Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice and Eric Garner -- have become symbols of a raging national conversation about police brutality and racial injustice.
The mothers of these four unarmed black men and boys felled by bullets or excessive police force have no doubt their sons would still be alive if they were white. No question, they say.
"I think absolutely my son's race and the color of his skin had a lot to do with why he was shot and killed," Sybrina Fulton, Martin's mother, told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Friday. "In all of these cases, these victims were unarmed. These victims were African-American. That needs to be our conversation."
In their first interview together, Fulton was joined by Brown's mother, Lesley McSpadden; Tamir's mother, Samaria Rice; and Garner's mother, Gwen Carr. They spoke of reliving the horrific final moments of their son's lives with each controversial death, of gaining strength from protesters and other supporters, of the importance of coming together to effect change.
"It seems our kids are getting younger and younger," Fulton said. "They're killing them younger and younger. There is no regard anymore for human life. There has to be somewhere where we draw the line and say, 'Listen, our kids want to grow up, too.'"(continued)
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The big bucks will help them feel better.
And the false narratives and false conclusions continue Ad nauseam. All by design.
When are the FATHERS going to appear on CNN?
the woman’s a genius!
“”It seems our kids are getting younger and younger,”
such stunning insight.
as regards who???
There has to be somewhere where we draw the line and say, ‘Listen, our kids want to grow up, too.’”(continued)
they need tie be GUIDED if they want to GROW UP..helping then do so is a parents JOB!
No parental guidance involved in each of the four cases.
They has warrants, dawg.
Facts and evidence don’t matter. Always victims, never perpetrators
And a reason why they’ll stay at the bottom of the socio-economic barrel Take responsibility, lay off drugs and crime, amount to something, and obey the law and peace officers
...because they likely would not have been lawbreakers.
How about all of those African American mothers whose sons are killed during black on black crimes? Do they have any pain to share or does how they feel not matter?
They don’t even know what a “conversatlon” is.
The sign in the middle is priceless.
if one acts like a thug one will die like one.
These mothers are enabling thug behavior by denying the bad behavior of their sons. And the media are helping them.
These people would gain just a tad more credibility were they to include some of the mothers of Black ‘kids’ who were either in College, maybe home on Leave, and had been accosted by muggers and others, who, while on the way to work were shot by Blacks for absolutely NO reason.
These guys are putting therir hopes on GANGSTERS that they ‘raised’ or, better put, brought into this world and left them on their own, then getting upset when YOU and I don’t really GAF.
This isn’t really a Black//White thing, it is responsibility. Kind of like the W J Clinton case wasn’t about him getting a hummer under his desk, it was about a juvenile slug acting like some kind of unrestrained animal.
Of course, maybe this is why the Blacks gave WJC the title of ‘The First Black President’, because he has the morals of something less than an alley cat. (Sorry alley cats)
if the four mothers had raised their sons instead of abandoning them, they would probably still be alive. these mothers are responsible their sons being killed because they raised thugs and retards
LOL Bro!
They're narrowing down the search...
Missing barf alert. But the headline was barfy enough to be sure. Shame on the media once more.
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