Posted on 05/23/2014 2:35:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A California history teacher’s decision to dress as Trayvon Martin for his school’s yearbook photo has drawn a mixed reaction, KTUV reports.
Spencer Smith (pictured center) is seen flashing the peace symbol while wearing a white hoodie and holding Skittles. Martin had just purchased the candy shortly before his death. Smith was reportedly attempting to make a political statement.
Watch a news report about Smith’s photo here:
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
Some have come out in support of Smith; others remain unsure. Alfreda Charway, president of Brentwood Heritage High School’s Black Student Union, called it “a good idea because he’s expressing himself.”
“Because that’s the whole point of yearbook pictures, you’re supposed to express yourself,” Charway added.
“[It was] ok that he did it, just not in the yearbook,” commented Amber McKim, a sophomore at the school. However, one mother strongly disagreed with Smith’s decision, saying, “This is supposed to be capturing the best moments of the year. And all positive things.”
Martin was walking back to his father’s house in Sanford, Fla. in February 2012 when he got into a confrontation with neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman. The incident ended with Zimmerman fatally shooting Martin in the chest. He claimed he was acting in self-defense.
A grand jury acquitted Zimmerman of second-degree murder charges last year.
Like a guy with a hole in him.
This could be a traydemark violation.
Inappropriate and very tacky. Besides the race baiting this ‘teacher’ is doing, he commits an even worse Cardinal Sin, by taking the focus away from the graduating students, and directing attention to himself. Very selfish. Anyone in my family would have been furious, and these are Democrats, not Tea Party like me.
[Art.]
“He’s a white man.” Wrong, so the media came up the tortured white-Hispanic. Turns out that even that is wrong. Zimmerman is also part black. Brutally Honest has the perfect summation: “In a delicious irony, it is Zimmerman who might actually look more like the son Obama never had.”
Zimmerman was a person, as the writer said, of mixed-racial ancestry. In the Spanish-speaking Caribbean and Central America, a person with his proportions of racial mixing would have been denominated castizo on his baptismal certificate, which last certified each person's social place for life, officially and finally. (But Roberta Fernandez at the University of Houston, who teaches courses in Spanish that tell students that American culture is existentially racist, also tells them that Hispanic culture, and especially Chicano-studies culture <snort!>, is free of such taints and moral burdens. B.S., Roberta. Your ancestors sliced and diced humanity with over 50 racial and mixed-racial descriptors, many of them familiar to American Western movie fans as character names: cholo, chino, moreno, prieto, and so on. They also gave us memorable new English words from their own language: "octoroon", "quadroon", "mulatto", "negro", "mestizo".)
feh...
Fine upstanding young gentleman cut down in the prime of life. I wonder what happened to the pistol?
Of course not -- that would make him an Oreo.
He's bein' real, man.
Maybe some teacher could dress as some white person...before they were murdered by some black thug. That happens about three-four hundred times a year.
The Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
That’s not a peace symbol. It’s a gang sign.
Or a drug test!!!
Not accurate, needs a red spot center mass.
LOL!
He had many more ways to stay alive. In fact, he had infinitely many ways to stay alive. TM had a right to stand, walk, jump, or run in rain or in dry weather, in daytime or at night, in any public or semi-public area. He had no duty to stop and talk to GZ, and GZ had no right to force TM to do anything. It's still a largely free country. Only a police officer could order TM around.
But out of that infinity of paths TM picked the only way to get killed - he attempted to murder an armed man. Probably TM was intoxicated, or already suffering from brain damage. Whatever his reason was, he chose poorly.
Nothign but another piece of crap, Thug mentality is all they got.
So is someone flipping the camera the bird --
Is that a good idea too, you moron???
Yep - too bad there wasn't a "White-Hispanic" teacher to pose as Zimmermann. Of course, he would have been fired.
I see the teacher got the hoodie and the Skittles, but neglected the 9 mm hole...
Since it has been a while since this happened, maybe my memory is not that sharp, but was the COMPLETE AUDIO of that phone call played in the COURTROOM ?
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