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Trayvon Martin's parents write book on 5-year anniversary
Associated Press ^ | Feb 4, 2017 11:39 AM EST | Errin Haines Whack

Posted on 02/04/2017 8:46:37 AM PST by Olog-hai

It wasn’t supposed to take Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin five years to write a book about the death of their son, Trayvon Martin. But their grief has made finding the words unbearable until now.

Martin’s parents collaborated to write “Rest In Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin,” published Tuesday by Spiegel & Grau. The book recounts the journey of two grieving parents, thrust into the spotlight by tragedy and on some days, still as close to their loss as the day he died.

“The calendar says five years, but it seems like just a few months,” Sybrina Fulton said in an interview with The Associated Press. “I know that we’re still healing.” […]

The family, which has a foundation in Trayvon’s name, has not reached out to President Donald Trump, but is open to working with the administration in their efforts, Tracy Martin said. …

(Excerpt) Read more at hosted.ap.org ...


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Cheese, Moose, Sister; Society
KEYWORDS: restinpower; sybrinafulton; tracymartin; trayvonmartin
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To: Olog-hai
Trayvon Martin's parents write book

Suuuuure they did.

21 posted on 02/04/2017 8:56:14 AM PST by tomkat (aka PAtriot)
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To: Olog-hai

Prayers for Zimmerman, who still hasn’t recovered from that year on the hotseat. Perhaps he never will.
George has been very quiet here lately, for him.
No publicly known arrests, no road rage pursuits, no angry girl friends blabbing to the media. Maybe he’s settling down.


22 posted on 02/04/2017 8:57:22 AM PST by lee martell
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To: Olog-hai

I am surprised they know how to write.

Actually they probably can’t.


23 posted on 02/04/2017 8:57:52 AM PST by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: Olog-hai

Took them that long to find a ghost writer who could make sense of their ridiculous story.


24 posted on 02/04/2017 8:57:53 AM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

It doesn’t matter what’s in it. I doubt it will sell more than a 1,000 copies.


25 posted on 02/04/2017 8:59:20 AM PST by Roger Kaputnik (Just because I'm paranoid doesn't prove that they aren't out to get me.)
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To: Olog-hai

My baby was a good boy. He was just walking home from school with his purple drank ingredients, not bothering no one, when he was gunned down by a White hispanic and began a whole national movement, Black Lives Matter. He is a national hero!


26 posted on 02/04/2017 9:00:32 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: Olog-hai

Wow———that will be a HUGE seller./s

It will also probably be required reading in some schools.

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27 posted on 02/04/2017 9:00:46 AM PST by Mears
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To: Lexington Green

If they start doing that (selling off ashes or physical remnants of the deceased), something tells me a local cemmetary will soon ‘run out of’ bodies. Someone is stealing corpses of unnamed dead black youth! Isn’t it strange, isn’t it shocking?


28 posted on 02/04/2017 9:01:40 AM PST by lee martell
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To: Olog-hai

***But their grief has made finding the words unbearable until now.***

Or was it their inability to find a ghost writer to string together a series of their words into a coherent sentence.


29 posted on 02/04/2017 9:01:53 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Olog-hai

Title: Purple Drank Does Not Make You Bullet-Proof.


30 posted on 02/04/2017 9:01:59 AM PST by peyton randolph (Office of the Tagline Elect of the United States)
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To: Olog-hai

Better include coupons for free Skittles and Purple Drank, or I ain’t buyin’ it.


31 posted on 02/04/2017 9:05:17 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: Olog-hai
You can find it in the Historical Fiction aisle


32 posted on 02/04/2017 9:08:24 AM PST by darkwing104 (Forgive but don't forget)
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To: Olog-hai

The book should be published in cursive so that Trayvon’s friends can’t read it.


33 posted on 02/04/2017 9:09:05 AM PST by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: Olog-hai

All cover, no words.


34 posted on 02/04/2017 9:10:49 AM PST by Toespi
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I’m sure it will be a best seller with us Creepy Ass Cracka’s...


35 posted on 02/04/2017 9:12:33 AM PST by OCMike
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To: Vaquero

Martin’s parents collaborated to write a book because neither one can write, therefore they had to get someone smart enough to write for them....how may times do you think Mother is referenced in the book???


36 posted on 02/04/2017 9:14:00 AM PST by mastertex
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To: Olog-hai

Yep, grief is why it took them 5 years...couldn’t have been they were holding out for a larger cut.


37 posted on 02/04/2017 9:14:01 AM PST by lacrew
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To: Olog-hai

Release his juvenile and school records. Let your son’s memory shine the way it should for Black History month.


38 posted on 02/04/2017 9:17:38 AM PST by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Olog-hai

Maybe the ASS Press will assign 14 people to peruse the book for factual errors. You know, just to be certain the GHOST writers got everything correct.

ha ha ha ha ha

Seriously, I saw a local MIAMI reporter “interview” the people who are the biological parents of George Zimmerman’s attacker. Talk about an exercise in poor journalism....no tough questions...just hype.

Let’s see how that book is doing on amazon, ok?


39 posted on 02/04/2017 9:19:14 AM PST by SoFloFreeper (Isaiah 25:8)
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To: Olog-hai

Why five years? Is the gravy train running out of steam?


40 posted on 02/04/2017 9:19:55 AM PST by mrs. a (It's a short life but a merry one...)
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