Patrisse Cullors is an artist, organizer and the author of "When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir." She is the cofounder of Black Lives Matter and founder of Dignity and Power
Posted on 02/06/2018 6:12:12 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Trayvon sparked a movement that stands up to fascism and white supremacy. We need to hold him in our memories.
February 5th marks five years and 339 days since Trayvon Martin’s memorial service; it would also be his 23rd birthday.
The day is necessarily somber. Nearly six years ago, Trayvon’s death at the hands of white supremacist vigilante violence indicated the beginning of an escalating attack on Black lives and demanded that this nation confront its overtly racist past and present. The urgency of #Justice4TrayvonMartin turned into a global urgency to fight for Black lives — one which persists today.
What we acknowledged as a nation during the one-and-a-half year trial of George Zimmerman is that the white majority’s public imagination of Black people was based on their fear of us, not the reality of who we are. Trayvon Martin was a teenage boy literally walking in his own neighborhood doing what most teenagers do: Wearing a hoodie, buying snacks and talking on his cell phone. His family and Trayvon would not know that his life would end that night because a white vigilante would be empowered by his own racist beliefs and murder a 17-year-old boy in cold blood.
We organize marches, disrupt major highways, set up tent cities at police headquarters and charge the stages of elected officials in honor of Trayvon and others we have lost unnecessarily and too soon. We build electoral justice tables and develop movements that can develop new political leaders. We are working to do everything in our power to save America and defend our humanity.
This is what Trayvon represents, and so much more. We pray and we organize, so that his life and the lives of other Black people have not been taken in vain.
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Patrisse Cullors is an artist, organizer and the author of "When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir." She is the cofounder of Black Lives Matter and founder of Dignity and Power
What a load!
Oh for gawd’s sakes. The POS was a thug and got his just desserts
Anyone who uses his thuggish conduct for hero worship is a bigot, pure and simple
Pass the barf bag please!
Black Lies Matter!
Lets all toast with some Purple Drank and Skittles!
Can an Hispanic fighting for his life from a black thug be a white supremacist?
Trayvon who?
This isn’t just a chip on the shoulder, ma’am. This is a whole honkin’ Frito-Lay factory.
Pore Tray lost his high ground when he went and charged George. Why is Tray’s kind of vigilantism okay? This is ludicrousness.
Would Welch’s grape juice do?
The Thug Life!
He did leave his name as a verb. For example:
4. to be trayvoned; to be neutralized by a deadly weapon while committing an act of violence
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Trayvon
So what is being Zimmermanned?
Say what??
FASCISM?
Lil’ TreyTrey was a gangbanger wannabe thug in training.
The photos of him with a gun and flipping off people online cannot be unseen.
The criminal record is there of him thieving.
He assaulted someone who was expected to “accept his beatdown”.
How is a hispanic volunteer security guard an example of “white supremacy”?
Has she ever written anything about the knockout game?
It’s a sad sad situation.
Er, stands up FOR fascism? It’s hideous wrong in any color.
victim card + oppression card + race card + pity card + blame game = libtardism excuse for gaining the unearned, the undeserved, and something for hothing
Dictionary
histrionics
his·tri·on·ic
ˌhistrēˈänik/ noun
plural noun: histrionics
1. exaggerated dramatic behavior designed to attract attention.
"discussions around the issue have been based as much in histrionics as in history"
synonyms: dramatics, theatrics, tantrums; More
2. archaic
an actor.
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