Posted on 08/12/2019 2:31:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Historically, women have needed to be convinced to enter politics. But since the 2016 presidential election, thousands of women announced their plans to run for public office. And we want them to win. So we're giving them a monthly example of a woman who has run. The point: You can too.
Sybrina Fulton is widely known as one of the Mothers of the Movement, a group of mothers who have lost a child to gun violence or police brutality. In 2012, she lost her son Trayvon Martin, who was an unarmed Black teenager fatally shot by George Zimmerman. His death sparked national outrage that helped motivate grassroots movements like #BlackLivesMatter, and since then, Fulton has become an advocate for gun reform and racial equality. “I felt so alone after Trayvon passed,” Fulton told ELLE.com last year. “Even though people had been shot and killed before, you do feel like you are the only one going through that pain.”
Turning her pain into action, she founded a retreat to help other mothers heal after losing a child to violence and founded the Trayvon Martin Foundation. In 2016, she campaigned with presidential candidate Hillary Clinton as a national surrogate.
Now, Fulton plans to take another step in community activism, this time running for Miami-Dade County commissioner, representing a district primarily occupied by African Americans, Latinx, and immigrant communities. “I had no clue that I would ever be running for office, but sometimes when you get fed up with things you’re like, ‘OK, I just got to do it myself,’” she shared, laughing. Here, she dives into why she decided to run and her plan to win.
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Too bad she did not “jump into action” when she was supposed to be raising him.
Activism? So making a bunch of money because your dead kid was a bully is called activism? Didn’t the family get into a fist fight with other family members because they were selling Trayvon t-shirts? Sybrina Fulton even went so far as to get his name trademarked.
She jumped into fundraising, not activism.
How fashionable of Elle. Rebel Chic is back on Vogue...
Gee, I wonder what Trayvon would have done had he obtained the beaten police officer’s gun?
Wonder what that pays?"
Probably better than welfare for the same amount of 'work'.
She will make a fine Democrat as the qualifications for being a Democrat politician is lie and deny
...Because she failed at raising a son.
Had her sweet son gone home and minded his own business, he would be here today and going on with his sweet, church oriented life.
If she had taught her son not to attack armed men, he might still be alive.
She didn’t “lose” her son - stupid twit got into a fight and got shot.
He wasn’t lynched, he want attacked, he instigated and that somehow makes his mom worthy of office.
Frankly I think that makes her UNWORTHY of office because he Edison’s teach her son basic common sense.
She didn’t “LOSE HER SON” that night.
She & the dad had LOST that kid long before Zimmerman encountered Trayvon.
She is still in denial about the gang wanna be punk her kid was.
I have no sympathy for Trayvon or Michael Brown.
Both ere trouble & would have continued to be such as they got older.
She didn’t “jump” into anything, she was pushed, and used as a useful idiot, in the left’s war on law and order.
Follow the money.
The following comments are from my website scrolled to after the article on Parkland Florida and the war on the NRA which should have been about the promise policies used at that school.
The leadership of the so called political opposition (Republican) will wonder why as they lose a crucial election because of their inability to stand on principles. When Presidential actions should have been denouced and the police defended. When as President Obama initiated his racial division policy through the abuse of the “Bully Pulpit’ which went unchalanged and subsequently led to attacks on law enforcement. The only person to courageously do so was Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke and has because he is black received the “Uncle Tom” treatment
Clarke decried Obama’s abuse of the “Bully Pulpit” to create racial division which wound up using other similar incidents such as Ferguson MO and NYC.. Where Obama supported by the media would defend the attacker resisting arrest killed in the struggle over a law officers gun. Alledging the attacker was an “unarmed victim” of police brutality because he was black. Subsequently. There were continuous attacks on police ending up in a score of deaths.It Began when Obama used a non descript incident known as The Zimmerman trial and encouraged racial division through his twice use of the “Bully Pulpit”
. Obama defended the black attacker who was killed (a 17 year old 5’11 175 pound Trayvon Martin) by a 40 something year old 5’6” black hispanic (Jorge Zimmerman) working security in an integrated housing complex that was attacked by Martin knocking Zimmerman to the ground and the black youth was killed in a struggle over Zimmerman’s gun.
The media portayed the incident as Martin was an innocent black youth murdered in cold blood because he was black and the guard as a white hispanic guarding an exclusive white “gated”community .
Obama used the incident to declare racial division by using the “Bully Pulpit” declaring Martin was a victim of whites who could have been; First; “his son”, then; Obama himself.
When that inflammatory defense was picked by black gangs It also wound up and was used as an excuse to commit a score of racial assaults ending in deaths and serious injuries.
All the while this was happening in various areas of the country Such as the murder of an Australian visitor from Melbourne Christopher Lane killed while exercising on a Duncan Oklahoma street by members of the black gang known as the Crypts.
Such assaults were described by the press as “black youths with nothing better to do” Although there were some gang members who admitted their assaults were “for Trayvon” but met by stony silence from the democrats or denial from MSM because initially it was dismissed as a Obama miss-speak. As if he didn’t rely on a teleprompter for carefully prepared text checked out by advisers giving him the facts.
Shamefully members of the opposition so called Republicans chose not to condemn this but convenient to ignore. Thus demonstrate they are politically dysfunctional. Unwilling to work with or even recognize legitimate concerns from what they call the tea party who in reality are the Reagan voters of 2016 and unable to congeal into a unified working political unit. They did not learn from 2012,2014 and some continue to blow off 2016. http://www.theusmat.com/index.htm
She abandoned him as an infant. He was mostly raised by a step mother/girl friend of his father.
Once he got trayvoned, mom saw dollar signs.
I think he was getting into so much trouble that she dumped him on the dad and his new woman. Wonder if she felt so alone then? Or just when he croaked and she had dollar signs in her eyes for the ghetto lottery?
Well... He Trayvon was unarmed but he started a fight with a man who had a gun, was trying to take that gun and kill the man, but the man shot him before Trayvon could take the gun.
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