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Trayvon Martin: Slain Teen Becoming One Of Most Important Figures Of Modern Civil Rights
The Inquisitr News ^ | July 24, 2014 | Nathan Francis

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.


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Local News; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: blacks; civilrights; trayvon; trayvonstroops; zimmerman
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Nathan, not being around at the time, has no idea what the 1950's and 60's were like. 200 people? I'll bet most of us could gather more people in our own neighborhoods by buying a keg and some packages of hot dogs.
1 posted on 07/26/2014 10:50:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The title is one of the most insane ever


2 posted on 07/26/2014 10:51:48 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“His parents started the Trayvon Martin Foundation, which aims to provide a convenient avenue to launder money for their personal use.”


3 posted on 07/26/2014 10:55:00 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

200 people I have family reunions bigger than that and only invite siblings, first cousins and their families. Add on the in-laws and we almost double that.

So the actual reaction to Trayvon is SNORE!


4 posted on 07/26/2014 11:01:12 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Nathan has difficulty differentiating “murder” from “killing”.

Texans (and Americans in general) understand “Some people just need killing.” Note the use of “killing”, not murdering.

ST. Martin of the Purple Drank was one such person.


5 posted on 07/26/2014 11:01:47 PM PDT by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est. Because of what Islam is - and for what Muslims do.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So-called “Modern Civil Rights” these days is nothing but thug worship.


6 posted on 07/26/2014 11:04:26 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Some rapper could rework the old “Martin, Bobby and John” song to include St. Trayvonn.
That song always made me feel like sicking up. Maybe an MC Dawg could make it so.


7 posted on 07/26/2014 11:09:52 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Another way of saying it, a hispanic man shot a young punk to prevent him from killing him as the punk was bashing the hispanic’s head into the ground.


8 posted on 07/26/2014 11:11:39 PM PDT by winner3000
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To: headstamp 2

So he’s remembered as a saint for getting mad about a “white” man questioning him being in a neighborhood where burglary had become a problem then sneaking around and ambushing him to give him some payback and got shot because of it. Sounds like he would be a saint to a thug.


9 posted on 07/26/2014 11:12:17 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Because burglars are people too.


10 posted on 07/26/2014 11:17:54 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Jim from C-Town
200 people I have family reunions bigger than that

This piece is trying to keep the flame alive, but it is important to consider what has happened since the verdict. Since the verdict a term called "knockout game" has emerged into general use, with videos that many Americans have seen showing black teen agers acting almost exactly like Zimmerman alleges Trayvon did. Plus there have been many, many cases of home invasions and robberies by young black males, plus the non stop Chicago black shootings.

What there hasn't been since the verdict, is a wave of "white latinos," or any other white people, shooting young black males like they were in a video game.

While Zimmerman is not percieved as a hero, his narrative is closer to the experience of most Americans than the narrative pushed by Sharpton.

11 posted on 07/26/2014 11:18:01 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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“His parents started the Trayvon Martin Foundation, which aims to provide a convenient avenue to launder money for their personal use.”

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.

12 posted on 07/26/2014 11:18:35 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

*rolls eyes


13 posted on 07/26/2014 11:18:48 PM PDT by Mmogamer (I refudiate the lamestream media, leftists and their prevaricutions.)
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To: jsanders2001

Well like that girlfriend of Trayvon said, Trayvon was giving him a whoop ass. Zimmerman was racist not to know that in ghetto culture, you will get a whoop ass sometimes. Trayvon didn’t mean to hurt Zimmerman, it was just a whoop ass.

Sarcasm.........


14 posted on 07/26/2014 11:20:37 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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To: GeronL

Yes, the title is stupid.

This kid, and the way he was being raised (to hate every white person - who never did a thing to him); they’re lucky he lived to 18.

This just gets more disgusting every day.


15 posted on 07/26/2014 11:23:10 PM PDT by CyberAnt (True the Vote: " MY AMERICA, ... I'm terrified it's slipping away.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They are trying to make him into a modern Che Guevara.

Here are the facts on Che Guevara
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eMLk1nQh5o


16 posted on 07/26/2014 11:23:25 PM PDT by spyone (ridiculum)
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To: Mastador1

I resent that they present themselves to the world as a grieving intact family.

These two have not been together as a couple in many years.

His mom had not raised him full time since he was two years old. Yet she shows herself as this grieving mother, she lost her beloved son, etc. A son who she didn’t care enough about to raise.


17 posted on 07/26/2014 11:23:44 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

the kid was a thug , and a burglar. he was profiling houses and looking for a quick b&e job. he also tried to murder george zimmerman.

deliberately fake history is a truly evil thing.


18 posted on 07/26/2014 11:26:11 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Exactly. Real parents would have made sure Trayvon was home on a Sunday night in February.

These two were little more than sperm donor and egg. And now that Trayvon is gone, they are business partners. But parents? No.

19 posted on 07/26/2014 11:29:04 PM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Who?


20 posted on 07/26/2014 11:34:19 PM PDT by chris37 (heartless)
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