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Trayvon Martin's life didn't matter to his parents
wnd.com ^ | 5/8/2017 | Jessie Lee Peterson

Posted on 05/08/2017 6:07:37 AM PDT by rktman

Florida Memorial University is planning to award Trayvon Martin a posthumous bachelor of science degree in aviation during its commencement ceremonies this Saturday.

Didn’t think of Trayvon as the scholarly type, did you?

Since his death in 2012, Martin, the 17-year-old thug who was fatally shot during a fight with George Zimmerman, has been made into a martyr.

According to Sybrina Fulton, Trayvon’s mother, Trayvon wanted to be a pilot or an airplane mechanic. But he was far from a model student. According to reports, Trayvon had been suspended twice that school year before his death for offenses that should have gotten him arrested – once for getting caught with a burglary tool and a dozen items of female jewelry, the second time for being found with marijuana.

In 2010, Chief Charles Hurley of the Miami-Dade School Police Department implemented a policy that lowered the number of criminal reports, altering statistics to create the impression that crime was dropping within the school system. Crimes were being reported as disciplinary infractions. If Chief Hurley and the Miami-Dade School District had done their jobs, Trayvon may have gotten the wake-up call needed to change his life.

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: asstronaught; tresgone
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To: MRadtke

He’s grounded now.


21 posted on 05/08/2017 6:52:46 AM PDT by ichabod1 (I call Obama "osama" because he damaged us far more than Osama bin Ladin ever did.)
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To: ichabod1

he be good now . ..


22 posted on 05/08/2017 6:54:06 AM PDT by ßuddaßudd (>> M A G A << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
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To: brucedickinson

I know this isn’t nice to say, but Trayvon has accomplished more in death than he did in life.


23 posted on 05/08/2017 6:56:17 AM PDT by OLDCU
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To: rktman

I think we should use this nonsense to make fun of other such nonsense. That is, “award” Trayvon Martin the awards that leftists and liberals give each other.

The Nobel Peace Prize.
The Profiles In Courage Award.
Grammy Award for cellphone voice messaging.
Pulitzer Prize for best text messaging.
NAACP Image Award.
Best Supporting Actor Oscar.
Planned Parenthood Champion of the Year Award.
An Emmy for ‘Toppling the Patriarchy’.
BET YoungStars Award.
The George Soros ‘Outstanding Humanitarian’ Award.


24 posted on 05/08/2017 7:04:24 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Leftists aren't fascists. They are "democratic fascists", a completely different thing.)
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To: rktman
Yeah. A real possibility. /S

FAR 61.153 [Eligibility Requirements] [Excerpt]

To be eligible for an airline transport pilot certificate, you must:

Be at least 23 years of age.

Be able to read, speak, write and understand the English language.

Be of good moral character.

Hold at least a commercial pilot certificate and an instrument rating.

Meet the aeronautical experience requirements that apply to the aircraft category and class rating sought.

Pass the knowledge test.

Pass the practical test.

To exercise the privileges of an airline transport pilot certificate, you must hold a current first-class medical certificate.

25 posted on 05/08/2017 7:08:43 AM PDT by pabianice (LINE)
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To: brucedickinson

Wello, Travon was a space cadet.


26 posted on 05/08/2017 7:10:09 AM PDT by Lion Den Dan
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To: pabianice

Opportunity presented or at least available and not acted on, is/was still an opportunity right? Even without special treatment.


27 posted on 05/08/2017 7:11:04 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: rktman

Did he even finish high school?

This is ridiculous stuff, IMO.


28 posted on 05/08/2017 7:17:10 AM PDT by NEMDF
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To: rktman
anybody ever find the gun the boy is seen playing with in his FB photos?
29 posted on 05/08/2017 7:49:35 AM PDT by Chode (My job is not to represent the world. My job is to represent the United States of America-#45 DJT)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

You forgot the James Beard award - for Purple Drank.


30 posted on 05/08/2017 7:53:07 AM PDT by Last Dakotan
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To: brucedickinson
well the boy certainly got a lesson in ballistics, that he failed, miserably...
31 posted on 05/08/2017 7:58:10 AM PDT by Chode (My job is not to represent the world. My job is to represent the United States of America-#45 DJT)
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To: rktman

Another thug we don’t have to worry about.


32 posted on 05/08/2017 8:13:05 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

You forgot to include the Lifetime Achievement Award from Variety. Oh wait ... they gave that to Chelsea Clinton.


33 posted on 05/08/2017 8:30:05 AM PDT by Malone LaVeigh
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To: Chode

Trayvon was headed for a prison scholarship


34 posted on 05/08/2017 8:40:28 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcherhttp://www.stone)
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To: rktman

Oh, He’s all set then.

Florida Memorial ? Do they just give degrees out to dead people ?


35 posted on 05/08/2017 9:41:58 AM PDT by Celerity
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To: rktman

sad when you are worth more to society dead .. it makes it a lot easier to extol virtue and ignore vice.


36 posted on 05/08/2017 9:47:56 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: rktman

Anyone know how much money she’s made off her dead thug that she let someone else raise?


37 posted on 05/08/2017 10:36:29 AM PDT by Trillian
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To: rktman

Wondering if his future “career” in aeronautics would have amounted to a smaller paycheck than he could make at the local 7-11 whether working there or robbing it.


38 posted on 05/08/2017 10:43:40 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: rktman

Wondering if his future “career” in aeronautics would have amounted to a smaller paycheck than he could make at the local 7-11 whether working there or robbing it.


39 posted on 05/08/2017 10:43:46 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: Fantasywriter
fair enough...he had bad parents....many people do...

I'm sorry he's dead but he put himself in that situation and he was allowed to get to that point by useless school officials and useless parents...

but he still had a choice...

40 posted on 05/08/2017 8:59:52 PM PDT by cherry
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