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  • Identity Of Trayvon Martin's 'Cousin' Questioned

    01/04/2014 7:19:40 PM PST · by Tailgunner Joe · 32 replies
    wabe.org ^ | January 2, 2014 | Michell Eloy
    WABE and other local news organizations last month aired a story on a state senator’s rally to end Georgia’s Stand Your Ground law. At the Dec. 11 event, a man claiming to be Trayvon Martin’s cousin spoke to a crowd of about 200 gathered at First Iconium Baptist Church near Grant Park. The man, Patrick Fulton, used his speech to implore those in attendance to help repeal the law, saying because of Stand Your Ground, he’d never again get to spend time with his cousin. “We got to work together. We got to stand. We got to work with Sen....
  • Lowell Observatory's Putnam wants to name asteroid for Trayvon Martin

    12/30/2013 1:13:17 PM PST · by ek_hornbeck · 49 replies
    Arizona Daily Sun ^ | 9/5/13 | Eric Betz
    Albert Einstein. George Takei. Jerry Garcia. All of those men and many others have had an asteroid named after them. And if William Lowell Putnam III, trustee of Lowell Observatory, has his way, another name will be added to that list: Trayvon Martin. The retired broadcast executive, alpinist, author and Flagstaff resident believes that Martin has not received justice. It was an unusually warm night at Anderson Mesa south of Flagstaff on Oct. 2, 2000, when Lowell Observatory astronomers found the asteroid 2000 TM61. It was just one of hundreds that observatory’s researchers discovered as part of their search for...
  • Church Displays Bleeding Trayvon Martin Nativity Scene

    12/26/2013 8:37:05 AM PST · by Morgana · 54 replies
    breitbart ^ | Elizabeth Sheld
    Outside the Claremont United Methodist Church is a nativity scene with a bleeding Trayvon Martin. The California Church has turned their nativity scene "into a piece of art that comments on our times" for the last seven years. John Zachary, the artist, told me the acquittal in July of George Zimmerman, who fatally shot the 17-year-old African-American in 2012, struck him as a worthy subject for Christmas comment. For one thing, the backdrop to the Christmas story is the slaughter by King Herod of all infants in Bethlehem, a barbarous attempt to kill the Messiah.
  • 'If I had a Son': Race, Guns, and the Railroading of George Zimmerman {CSPAN video}

    12/15/2013 12:36:12 PM PST · by virgil283 · 22 replies
    booktv.org ^ | 15 Dec 2013 | Jack Cashill
    "The latest book by Jack Cashill uses the Zimmerman case to explain how the left gins up a story in order to serve the narrative they need to create at the time." CSPAN2 --1hr:19min video
  • World premiere: ‘Ballad for Trayvon Martin’ at Princeton University(barf alert)

    12/09/2013 8:21:00 AM PST · by rktman · 11 replies
    The Daily Caller ^ | 12/5/2013 | Eric Owens
    The director of the jazz studies program at Princeton University has written a ballad for Trayvon Martin. If you happen to be in the area, you can catch the world premiere of “Ballad for Trayvon Martin for Orchestra and Jazz Quartet” Thursday and Friday night at Richardson Auditorium on the Ivy League campus. Tickets are just $15 (and $5 for students), reports The Star-Ledger.
  • Princeton University Orchestra Debuts ‘Ballad for Trayvon Martin’

    12/05/2013 7:16:08 PM PST · by SoFloFreeper · 22 replies
    The College Fix | 12/5/13
    Trayvon Martin continues to be a subject of intense interest for the academic elite. The Princeton University Orchestra and the University Concert Jazz Ensemble is set to debut “The Ballad for Trayvon Martin” today, NJ.com reports. The goal of the music, according to its composer, noted jazz artist Anthony D.J. Branker, is to pay homage to victims of racial violence.
  • Concert to feature world premiere of Branker's 'Ballad for Trayvon Martin'

    12/03/2013 3:21:55 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 34 replies
    Princeton University ^ | December 3, 2013
    Featured Events The Princeton University Orchestra and the University Concert Jazz Ensemble will perform a concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday, Dec. 5 and 6, in Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall. The program will include works by Beethoven and Dvorak, a commissioned work by David Sanford and the world premiere of "Ballad for Trayvon Martin" by Anthony Branker, the Anthony H.P. Lee '79 P11 Senior Lecturer in Jazz Studies and director of the Program in Jazz Studies. For tickets call University Ticketing at 609-258-9220.
  • CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC Primetime Ignore 'Knockout Game'

    11/21/2013 3:56:39 PM PST · by NoLibZone · 35 replies
    http://www.breitbart.c ^ | 11/21/13 | W. Bigelow
    The major television media are ignoring the “knockout game," a vicious assault perpetrated by young African-American males against Jews and whites across the nation. In the assaults, unsuspecting pedestrians are punched violently in the head so that the black youths can prance around exhilarated about their successful “knockout.” Many concussions and even deaths have been attributed to this “game,” but networks such as ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and MSNBC have studiously ignored the issue, according to TruthRevolt.
  • Racial tension 'more extreme' and 'overt' since election of Pres. Barack Obama

    11/19/2013 2:18:14 PM PST · by Q-ManRN · 14 replies
    mlive.com ^ | November 19, 2013 | Gus Burns
    Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy recently found herself at the center of a national story that exposed existing racial tension in Detroit and beyond. It led to Worthy telling a New York Times reporter she believes racial tensions today are much more "overt" and "extreme" than prior to the election of President Barack Obama, the nation's fist black president, in 2008. After a shooting earlier this month, it became the black prosecutor's duty to evaluate whether Theodore Wafer, a 54-year-old white man from Dearborn Heights, violated the law when he fatally shot Renisha McBride, an intoxicated 19-year-old black woman from...
  • Trayvon Martin's Parents Retain American Program Bureau as Their Exclusive Speakers' Agency

    11/14/2013 1:53:44 AM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 21 replies
    PR Newswire ^ | November 13, 2013 | Jack Freeman
    American Program Bureau (APB) is proud to be named the exclusive speaking agency for Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, the parents of Trayvon Martin. Since the death of their son, Fulton and Martin have committed their lives to transforming tragedy into change, working to ensure the survival of every child through education and thoughtful conversations about conflict resolution. The publicity surrounding Trayvon's death and the ensuing trial catapulted the country into national debate. Facing increasing demands to speak publicly, Fulton and Martin are retaining the services of APB to schedule and manage their speaking engagements. Both Fulton and Martin are...
  • ‘Stand your ground law’ survives Florida House vote

    11/08/2013 6:02:04 AM PST · by sheikdetailfeather · 5 replies
    Fox News via AP ^ | 11-8-2013 | Fox News via AP
    A panel of Florida legislators on Thursday easily defeated an effort to repeal the state's controversial "stand your ground law" Thursday following hours of passionate testimony. The vote by a committee of the Republican-controlled House, which seemed unlikely just a few months ago, comes after the trial of George Zimmerman renewed scrutiny of the self-defense law that was first passed in 2005. Zimmerman was acquitted in the shooting death of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin after claiming self-defense. While "stand your ground" was not directly mentioned in the trial, the law was included in the jury instructions and sparked a monthlong...
  • History Will Judge Obama on Actions, Not Words

    11/06/2013 2:58:43 PM PST · by Kaslin · 32 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | November 6, 2013 | Rachel Marsden
    History judges a leader exclusively through his actions and their ultimate results rather than through fleeting words. It appears that U.S. President Barack Obama is finally putting the brakes on his mouth after flooring it down Hope-and-Change Highway for most of his tenure. Remember the Syrian crisis that dominated chatter for months before all but vanishing? Recall how critics were talking about grievous incompetence and even possible impeachment? Fast-forward to today, and just try to start a conversation with, "Obama really botched the situation in Syria." Now that the Russians have overseen a plan for the destruction of that country's...
  • Zimmerman juror says she’s lost her job and received death threats against her kids

    11/01/2013 9:08:34 AM PDT · by Uncle Chip · 37 replies
    The Daily Mail Online ^ | November 1, 2013 | Alex Grieg
    A juror in the George Zimmerman trial claims the case ruined her life and says she's had death threats made against her children, lost friends, her job and will soon lose her home as a result of it. The juror, a 36-year-old mother of eight who only identified herself as Maddy during an interview on Inside Edition Thursday, was the only juror who showed her face when she appeared on Good Morning America in July. Since then, Maddy says, she's lost her job as an aide at a nursing home and she and her husband have had to sell most...
  • Holder: Trayvon charges still possible

    11/04/2013 6:37:41 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 115 replies
    The Hill's Regwatch ^ | November 4, 2013 | Ben Goad
    U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday said the Justice Department has not decided whether to file federal civil rights charges against George Zimmerman in the 2012 killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman, a volunteer neighborhood watchman who shot and killed Martin in an incident that captured national interest, was acquitted of murder charges in July. But the Justice Department could still pursue a federal civil rights case. Holder said the agency’s investigation is under way. “I'm not sure exactly how much longer that will take, but we will get to a point where we are able to make a...
  • Ted Cruz Destroys Race-Based Attack on Stand Your Ground Laws

    11/01/2013 7:45:29 AM PDT · by SoConPubbie · 20 replies
    RightWingNews.com ^ | October 31, 2013 | Dave Blount
    Rather than addressing the crucial issue of reducing its own monstrous size before it crushes our society, the federal government held a hearing Tuesday as part of an attack on Stand Your Ground laws — an explicitly state matter. Fortunately Ted Cruz (R-TX) was at hand to lay utter waste to the liberal control freaks who have theatrically played the race card in their attempt to exploit the Trayvon Martin shooting as a means to undermine states’ rights and our individual right of self-defense. Cruz began by offering his condolences for [Trayvon Martin’s mother Sybrina] Fulton’s loss, but quickly moved...
  • Dick Durbin’s Senate Gun Trial to Feature Ghost of Trayvon Martin

    10/29/2013 8:07:29 AM PDT · by rktman · 15 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 10/28/2013 | J. Christian Adams
    After a government semi-shutdown, the disastrous rollout of HealthCare.gov and the looming budget crisis coming again in January, you’d think the second-ranking Democrat in the Senate would reserve his limited time and resources to focus on fixing these critical issues the federal government has already messed up. You’d be wrong. Senator Richard Durbin, the second most powerful man in the Senate, will hold a special hearing this week on state self-defense laws and the death of Trayvon Martin. (PJ Media has extensively covered the Trayvon Martin incident. See, “Justice for Trayvon, Race Hustler Style,” or Bill Whittle’s fantastic revelation about...
  • Trayvon Martin's mother calls on states to clarify 'stand your ground' laws [Not used in Trial]

    10/29/2013 6:19:00 AM PDT · by SoFloFreeper · 13 replies
    AP via FOX ^ | 10/29/13
    Trayvon Martin's mother says states should clarify their "stand your ground" self-defense laws. Sybrina Fulton is telling a Senate committee Tuesday that the laws, which generally eliminate a person's duty to retreat in the face of a serious physical threat, are confusing and inconsistent. She says neighborhood-watch volunteer George Zimmerman "got away with murder" in the 2012 killing of her son, largely because of Florida's policy.
  • Rev. Al Sharpton accuses Ted Cruz of politicizing Travyon Martin’s death

    10/29/2013 8:48:21 PM PDT · by Tailgunner Joe · 35 replies
    redalertpolitics.com ^ | October 29, 2013 | Katie LaPotin
    Killing two birds with one stone is an understatement for what the Reverend Al Sharpton did on his MSNBC show “Politics Nation” Tuesday evening, as the civil rights leader accused Texas Sen. Ted Cruz of “politicizing” the death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in 2012 during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the controversial “Stand Your Ground” law at the center of the trial. Although Florida’s ”Stand Your Ground” law – which allows people the right to use deadly force to defend themselves in a dangerous situation – was not used by the defense in the trial of Martin’s alleged killer,...
  • Ted Cruz Tells Trayvon’s Mother Why Stand Your Ground Laws Can’t Possibly Be ‘Racist’

    10/29/2013 2:03:18 PM PDT · by SoConPubbie · 68 replies
    Ted Cruz via YouTube ^ | Oct 29, 2013 | Ted Cruz
    10/29/13 - Sybrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin, who was shot and killed by George Zimmerman in early 2012, appeared on Capitol Hill Tuesday for a hearing regarding the controversial "Stand Your Ground" laws. When it came time for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) to speak at the hearing, he informed the still-grieving mother that Stand Your Ground laws actually benefit African-Americans as much as, if not more than, they do whites. Cruz began by offering his condolences for Fulton's loss, but quickly moved on to defend the trial by jury process that found Zimmerman not guilty of murder. He...
  • Santorum Bashes Cruz: He Did More Harm (Ricky outted as just a pro life lib estab)

    10/27/2013 10:03:01 AM PDT · by C. Edmund Wright · 126 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 10-27-13 | Staff
    Appearing on NBC’s Meet the Press, former Pennsylvania Senator and 2012 presidential candidate Rick Santorum bashed Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), saying that Cruz’s crusade against Obamacare had ben counterproductive. “I would say in the end, he did more harm. I think it was not his objective," Santorum said. He continued: "I think his objective was a laudable one. I think he didn't do a very good job of planning it out. I think it's one thing to have a goal and another thing to have a plan to get you to that goal…Unlike the Democratic party who has a leader,...