Horst Wessel was also made a martyr.
Posted on 07/06/2012 11:34:57 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The city’s first known Trayvon Martin mural is going up on a wall of an East New York laundromat - adding to a brewing campaign to make sure history doesn’t snub the slain teen’s image.
Teenage boys will start painting the 100-foot picture July 16 on New Lots Laundromat’s wall underneath the elevated tracks of the IRT No. 3 train.
The East New York mural will join a growing list of similar street art popping up in black neighborhoods across the country.
“We want him to become a martyr, and it’s sad that we even have to say that,” said Catherine Green, executive director of ARTs East New York Inc., who is overseeing the project.
“We want to see change coming out of this. People see a young man with a hoodie and they think he is a criminal.”
The seven young painters will show off the outline for the giant image in mid-July but are set on drawing Martin dressed in the his famed sweatshirt.
“It goes back to hip-hop and how people dress. When you see that hoodie, it signifies what people think about our young men in our community,” Green said.
Neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman gunned down the hoodie-clad Florida teen in February telling cops he thought the boy appeared suspicious.
Initially, authorities didn’t arrest Zimmerman, citing the state’s controversial “Stand Your Ground” law. A national debate on racial profiling ensued and officials later charged Zimmerman with second degree murder.
Martin snapped a picture of himself in a gray hoodie before his death. The image went viral as buzz surrounding the case intensified and is now on countless t-shirts and posters.
State Sen. Eric Adams (D-Crown Heights) used the picture on a June 7 flyer inviting young Brooklynites to a rally against a floundering Stand Your Ground bill stalled in Albany.
“The story of Trayvon Martin will find its way into the history books,” Adams said. “It symbolizes the frustration and anger of young men of color losing their lives — by their own hands, by the hands of the police, and by vigilante groups.”
The Martin family copyrighted their son’s hoodie photo earlier this month, along with the phrases “Trayvon Martin,” “I am Trayvon Martin,” and “Justice for Trayvon Martin,” said Michael Hall, co-founder of the Justice for Trayvon Martin Foundation, an advocacy group tied to Martin’s legal team.
“We want to stop people from making a profit from [the image],” said Hall, explaining that while he was unaware of the East New York mural, he doesn’t have a problem with the plan.
Still, Hall was skeptical about whether street art will push history book authors to include the Trayvon Martin case.
“History will dictate what it wants to acknowledge. They will dictate what they want to pay attention to,” Hall said.
Unite the colored crowd... in hatred of whitey.
Race War against White
I have to agree with the Left, that America is extremely racist. Its racist against white. Theres a group, esp the media that automatically assume the white is guilty
We used to honor astronauts and people who did great things.
Now we honor thugs and lowlives.
Isn’t Obamaland great? :)
It’s looking more and more like George Zimmerman is going to be the one who is the martyr. How much do you want to bet that this mural will be paid for with “stimulus” money.
That would be very good, but to more fully convey Trayvon Martin's nobility of character, it might be more effective for the mural to show Martin straddling Zimmerman, hammering his bloody head into the ground.
America went black (0bama) and never came back.
0bama always had a problem with the word ‘NASA’.
.............Will the mural show Trayvon wearing a hoodie, flipping the finger,..................
and, I hope the mural painters done buy themselves lottsa gold paint, to fully memorialize his gold grills and gold necklaces.
Saint Skittles of the Purple Drank - what an iconic figure for the Big Sh*tty.
Have the ROBBERIES STOPPED in that neighborhood since he died?? I always wondered if he was the ROBBER......that would be something if he was.
I wish someone did a mural of Zimmerman! Wouldn’t that be a hoot to see the libs flip! Pass the popcorn!
Were there really robberies? Was there a description of the robber?
LOTS of robberies......don’t know what the description they had.......young black man would not surprise me, though.
Common sense?
There are 8 million stories in Bizzaro city, this has been one of them.
Horst Wessel was also made a martyr.
OH Yeah, you can bet the mural will portray him as a 10-12 yr. old too.
Actually I always wondered (Ok just since reading your post) if Zimmerman was the ROBBER. I mean: patrolling watchman, perfect cover, he could learn who didn't lock their houses, when they were out. Then load the loot into his little truck and take it out of the community to fence.
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