Posted on 07/26/2014 10:50:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Trayvon Martin never lived to see his 18th birthday, but the slain Florida teenager is slowly becoming one of the most important figures in the modern civil rights era.
Martin was walking to his home in a gated Florida neighborhood in 2012 when neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman mistook him for a burglar. After a brief struggle, Zimmerman shot and killed Martin, an act that a jury later deemed justified.
The case aroused racial tensions and immediately became a cause celebre among activists who believed that police did not follow through on charging Zimmerman simply because Martin was a black teen.
But with now one year since Zimmerman’s acquittal, Trayvon Martin has grown to be seen as a martyr among civil rights activists. His parents started the Trayvon Martin Foundation, which aims to “create awareness of how violent crime impacts the families of the victims and to provide support and advocacy for those families in response to the murder of Trayvon Martin.”
Martin’s parents have used their platform to speak out on other cases, including the murder of Jordan Davis, a teen who was killed in Florida after a dispute over loud music.
Last weekend, a march to remember Trayvon Martin drew a number of celebrities. The event was held in Crenshaw, Los Angeles, on the one-year anniversary of the day Zimmerman was acquitted of murdering the 17-year-old.
Among those present were rapper Nipsy Hustle and Lakers star Kobe Bryant, who addressed the crowd of roughly 200 people.
“Players such as myself and others that have kind of a platform, our responsibility is more than just putting a ball in the basket… but helping [Trayvon's parents] have a platform.”
Kobe added that his career seems important “in a vacuum,” but added “when you step out of that, you look at [Trayvon's parents]… what they had to go through as a family and what they’ve come out of… that’s true adversity.”
Trayvon’s legacy also casts a shadow over modern race relations. The image of Martin in a dark hoodie became a rallying point, and an image that remains connected to the slain teen today. When Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban earlier this year told a reporter that he was prejudiced when he would see “a black kid in a hoodie on my side of the street,” he later apologized to Martin’s family for making the unintentional connection.
The apology was displayed prominently on the Trayvon Martin Foundation’s website.
Martin’s parents have been at the forefront of the push to turn Trayvon Martin into a martyr of the civil rights movement. Earlier this year his father compared Trayvon to Emmett Till, the 14-year-old whose brutal murder became a turning point in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s.
Among those present were rapper Nipsy Hustle [Hussle]He is also a member of the local Rollin 60's Neighborhood Crips gang
Gang activities include murder, bank robberies, rape, drug trafficking, carjacking, assault and vandalism/graffiti.
“Maybe if they had paid half as much attention to him when he was alive as they do after he died he wouldn’t have turned out to be such a waste. “
Both his parents are sociopaths to one degree or another. The apple didn’t fall far from the tree.
Make any myth you want - if it furthers the expansion of the welfare state, the MSM will be right there to help you sell it.
Yeah Kobe, so many women to rape, so little time!
Trayvon probably did not know who was the first black congressman or what MLK did.
This lo fo voter new age civil rights is a complete joke.
I’ve already seen a baby named Trayvon. Jeez.
Trayvon Martin is the Horst Wessel of our times. He is a thug wanna be deified into a cultural icon.
Gee, Nathan, didn't you leave out one important fact?
What transparent propaganda.
"After a brief struggle?"
Don't they really mean "After Trayvon Martin assaulted Zimmerman, knocked Zimmerman to the ground, pounded Zimmerman's head into the pavement several times, and told him 'You're gonna die', Zimmerman shot and killed Martin?"
Don't you remember all the squealing about "All we want is for Zimmerman to face trial?"
Well, Zimmerman did face trial, and was justly acquitted by the jury.
So then the left-wing victimization crowd immediately moves the target by attacking the validity of a trial in which the prosecution bent over backwards to railroad Zimmerman,still failed utterly, and made themselves look like witch-hunting zealots along the way.
The notion that Trayvon Martin's civil rights were in any way violated is abject and hysterical propaganda. Sharpton, Jackson, and their ilk are grasping at straws, and their attempt to create a martyr out of a young thug who made a foolish mistake is truly pathetic.
If this is the kind of "hero" the modern black civil rights movement is going to mythologize, then it's no wonder that the vast majority of the country is beginning to see that community as disingenuous and totally detached from reality.
My God! The delusional ignorance on display by these race-baiters is just breathtaking! Clinging to such phony martyrs can do nothing but undermine the black civil rights movement.
“but the slain Florida teenager is slowly becoming one of the most important figures in the modern civil rights era.”
Which speaks to how far awry the movement has gone.
Martin is not Emmit Till, Medgar Evers or Rosa Parks. George Zimmerman is not Bull Connor.
The “slain teenager” isn’t becoming anything except worm meat. He’s where he belongs right now.
punk ass thug got what he deserved.
Any doubt in your mind why I am here? I just can’t take this sh!t anymore.
Breathing liquid fire, I would suspect.
Yet another example of race relations being set back 50 years by Obama.
The deliberations by a mixed racial jury got it right Zimmerman did nothing racist, and Martin was the aggressor and Zimmerman was justified in the use of deadly force to protect himself from a much larger physically fit Martin.
That Treyvon is Tres dead is what happens when the good guy
Zimmerman has a gun and is forced to use it.
Blacks here would be wise to back off or all blacks will be viewed as vile racists, not like the sensible jury who decided this case on the facts.
Martin was a thug with a record, even though he was young he was old enough to behave better.
F that thug wanna be!
Making him a civil rights icon spits all over those who worked for true civil rights and equality - too bad the liberals decided that true equality wasn’t profitable to “those who rule”.
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