Posted on 04/27/2012 1:49:34 PM PDT by Mark Mayberry
The picture is featured above and is also goes on to state that it was a meeting held by the NAACP on my college campus on April 4th. Now this flyer got me thinking as I stood in line to return my books and if you have never returned books on the last day of the semester, let me tell you, I had a lot of time to think.
I decided that even though most people want to believe otherwise, most of us are not Trayvon Martin at all. As a matter of fact, I am nothing like Trayvon nor would I want to be. It leads me to ponder this question, what does it say about America that so many people think they want to be like Trayvon Martin?
My parents were fairly strict on me as a child and although I hated it when I was younger, I now understand why they were and it is driven home a little more every time I see a cautionary tale such as this. I was never in trouble outside of the normal realms of being a bored teenager. For that reason I never found myself in a strange neighborhood after dark being pursued by a member of the neighborhood watch. I would have never dreamed of bringing drugs or stolen property to school mostly because I was raised with a strict code of decency and in my community we were all good people who didn’t take part in such things. Also the fact that even at the age of seventeen I am fairly sure my father would not have been opposed to snatching me up for such deeds didn’t hurt as a deterrent.
This story involved my parents quite a bit and I didn’t even realize it until I started to frame out the article. Much of the things that have been unearthed about Trayvon Martim since his death are a result of absent parenting in my opinion. My father always instilled in me to respect everyone but most of all women. For that reason I would never issue public Internet statements through various social media sites using disparaging and misogynistic terms. I was raised in an atmosphere where that was not permitted and if you broke that rule there was a consequence.
From the time I was young my parents both taught me that there was something to be said for hard work and honest living. My parents, both of whom are successful in their respective fields of employment were great role models to support their claims. Because of that influence and example I am now on my way to being a successful person in my chosen field and never once have I thought it would be cool to dress in baggy jeans with a hood covering my face. Not to say that I don’t own any hoodies but the hood is more of a useless addition to the sweatshirt and not to be worn. I am a firm believer that how you dress sways people’s initial opinion. I try to dress my best when I am around town and meeting people so I am taken seriously in public. For the same reason that I assume the guy wearing a badge is a police officer, I also assume the guy walking around with his pants falling down and wearing an oversized hoodie is a criminal. If you don’t want to be known as a criminal then don’t wear the uniform.
I have no middle finger pictures online nor do I own any gold teeth and although I do have one tattoo it is covered a majority of the time and no one is any the wiser. The point I am trying to make here is that Trayvon went to great lengths to convince people that he was a thug, living the lifestyle of a ghetto super star and there are consequences to this decision.
If I had to choose, I would say that I am George Zimmerman. George Zimmerman is a devoted husband who works diligently and does volunteer work with disadvantaged people and at risk youth. He also volunteered in his neighborhood and most people only have good things to say about him. Zimmerman has goals and career dreams that he hopes to attain much as I do and because of that I can understand the hard work that goes into pursuing a dream.
Much like Zimmerman I volunteer in my community and do what I can to help out. Until I moved to Tennessee for school I was a volunteer firefighter and still take part in many activities to help out those less fortunate.
Also I am a concealed weapons permit holder and this is the reason that this case was originally of particular interest to me. It wasn’t until later when Zimmerman was crucified in the media with lies and omissions that I took up the cause. (Check out my story on the media bias in the Trayvon Martin case.) Anyone who carries a gun (legally) understands the responsibility and the risk you take in defending your own life. Because of this I know that unless some new unforeseen evidence surfaces, Zimmerman didn’t shoot Martin on a whim or for kicks, as some would have you to believe.
So I will ask again in closing, are you really Trayvon Martin? Do you want your kids to be Trayvon Martin? I for one, try everyday not be Trayvon Martin and to live my life as a productive member of society and a point of pride for my parents not a point of failure.
i dont have to privide any link - it is ALL OVER THE INTERNET
you’re the only one who has not heard that (or wanted to hear anything other than what you believe)
didnt you see the photo on NBC the other day? The one that was taken minutes after the incident, with blood all over Zimmerman’s head?
STOP LISTINING TO CNN and PBS
That’s a lie.
SHANNON BUTLER, FOX 35 NEWS REPORTER: Yes. There have been several witnesses who have come out since the initial report. The witness I think you’re referring to is John, and John is the one that said that he actually saw the scuffle between the two other people that we interviewed said they heard the screams, they knew there was some kind of confrontation. But this guy told us that he actually saw what he said was Trayvon Martin on top of George Zimmerman beating him, and that’s when he called 911. He said, Zimmerman was actually saying to him please help me, please help me. He said then he went upstairs while he was calling 911, by then he was too late, that gunshot had already gone off.
Please accept my apologies, for my disagreeing with you.
The problem is that john never said that. He never said that he saw anything but zimmerman already losing and screaming for help.
If anybody has a link to any witness who saw the first punch then he should post it...
You have been repeatedly reminded our system of justice does not work that way.
Z, nor ourselves, are required by you or anyone, to show a tape or quote an eye witness that M punched Z in the face and knocked him down, before anything else.
It is up to YOU, and the stupid prosecutor, to show he is guilty of second degree murder.
Bring it on, baby, let’s see it.
Otherwise, you would shut up if you had an ounce of self respect.
My apology from Post # 164
“Please accept my apologies, for my disagreeing with you.”
With your Post # 165, may I presume you do not wish to accept that apology?
Of course I accept your apology (although it was not necessary)...allow me to apologize if my reply confused you.
ON second thought you thoughtless obtuse individual, I withdraw any and all apologies that i put forward to you.
Nothing you will ever do or say will confuse me.
A TROLL is a TROLL!
ES&D
btw...still waiting for you to post any legitimate eyewitness account that supports your fantasy....of course you can't...but you can't admit it either.
I have and will continue to call a lie a lie...and all those posts swearing that there is an eyewitness who said that he saw TM attack GZ are just that...lies.
Now, in the adult world one doesn't make a statement of fact and then say; "Prove me wrong or it must be true". If your standard were the way things are done then it would be easy to say; "Anybody calling himself rangerette is an impotent necrophile...prove me wrong".
Every one of those freepers who has sworn that such an eye-witness statement exists follows the same pattern when challenged to put up...they all throw insults as if that somehow proves their lie and then they disappear.
How about you...got a link to prove the lie? I bet you don't....
there are none so blind as those who will not see
it is not a lie, you can prove it for yourself ... but I suspect you won’t.
You seem to already know what you want to believe.
You posted that there is a witness who says that he saw martin attack zimmerman...I say that you are lying...
Sweetie, he probably just meant there’s a witness who saw Martin whaling on Z who was on his back on the concrete, which is Z’s story.
Unfortunate that he put it wrongly, but none of us is perfect.
The point is, it doesn’t MATTER. We don’t have to produce a witness or a video tape or anything that proves Martin jumped Z. It’s YOU, and the stupid prosecutor, who have to demonstrate through evidence and beyond reasonable doubt that Z is guilty of second degree murder.
That’s just the way it is.
Thank God for America.
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Drop the sweetie...it's childish.
And, your pal along with many other freepers posted specifically that there are witnesses who saw martin jump Zimmerman. When challenged they doubled down. When challenged again they either turn to insukts or disappear.
This is not some slip of the keyboard incident. This is a continuing lie. Defend it if you like but I will continue to call it what it is.
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