Posted on 06/23/2013 12:41:29 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
We didn't mourn with the family from the church pews when seventeen teen year old, Trayvon Martin, was sent to his homecoming with God. We had not yet heard of his name. We couldn't stop the one shot fired on that drizzling night in Sanford, Florida on February 26, 2012. We, too, were watching LeBron, Kobe and D. Wade on our television. We didn't raise our voices when the man who pulled the trigger was allowed to sleep in his own bed the night he ended the life of the young man from Miami. We hadn't yet heard the news. But, soon enough, we were awoken by emails and tweets, facebook posts and phone calls, petitions and calls for marches of a million hoodies, led by young people from around the world, who would not let the death of this young, black man become another statistic in the Sanford Police Department log book.
Over the next sixteen months, the rallying cries from our generation would lead a movement for justice and peace that has arrived at the Seminole County courthouse steps ready for the murder trial of George Zimmerman that will begin on Monday morning. The trial will be watched by millions and discussed by every news network in America, however if it wasn't for the work of young people, we might not have ever arrived at this day. From small towns to big cities, from elementary schools to law libraries, from intro-mural teams to professional athletes, the call for justice was deafening. Quieting the chatter that we had given up or no longer care or lost interest, we marched on. Silencing the critics of our generation, who believe we are lazy, entitled and narcissistic, we kept up the fight.
This is a moment of definition. A defining moment for our generation that is critical to who we will become. No matter what name a magazine, politician, or critic wants to label our generation, we know that we take care of our own. Whether it is gay couples who want to marry, undocumented students whose dreams should not be limited by their location, battled soldiers who deserve to come home from war to a country that embraces them or young black men who should be allowed to walk freely through any neighborhood in this nation, our generation will do everything in our power to make this America, the most beautiful. For our ugliness rained drops of death on Trayvon Martin the night he lost his life, we know that we failed him once, but we will never fail him again.
In his name and his memory, we will wear our hoodies to work, to school, to play on Monday morning and inspire our friends, relatives and enemies to keep the fight for justice alive. Traveling to Sanford, Florida Sunday night for the opening days of this trial, I promise to deliver all of the well-wishes to the family of our fallen comrade. I also promise to deliver the news of this trial in real-time, as the outcome of this case will forever be part of the history of our journey. Proud of our persistence and confident of our commitment, I know that my generation will stand with Trayvon until the very end. Our brother, Trayvon, rests in peace, but we will not rest until we find peace for all.
Denton?
Me too.
Actually, Denton County not the city.
I am in Denton County. Give a shout if you wish.
Could I be the next Trayvon?
Yes you can, if you grow up to be a punk thug who makes the mistake of assaulting somebody with CCW.
Sadly, the Chicago Blacks are not guaranteed life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness after successfully running the planned parenthood masterminded abortion gauntlet, they have to avoid the late, late term abortions from unplanned brotherhood, a loose-knit organization of fatherless black children who grow up on the hard streets of life in Chicago and think nothing of taking a life.
It's like using the N-word. "If WE do it, it's OK. But don't any of you crackas think you can do what we do!"
Actually, it’s just the 47% critical thinking impaired, obozo worshiping, racist, angry feral adolescents who, with the help of IDIOTS like this Skolnick character, make all the noise about crap like this.
Well I do like that he admits that “we” failed Trayvon, because it’s true — liberals like him did fail Trayvon.
They created the cultural and communal milieu that would enable his casual thuggishness to be completely unremarkable, even normal — based upon accounts of his basic temperament by his friends and neighbors, it’s reasonable to suppose that if Trayvon had been raised by better people in a better neighborhood, he would have been entirely respectable.
They also created the tolerance of savagery and criminality and lack of predictable harsh consequences which made gated communities and community watches necessary.
They also created the broader distortion of opportunity and incentive that would lead to a George Zimmerman being at such loose ends that a self-appointed armed one-man community watch would seem like a good idea. A well-trained and -experienced security officer, to say the least of a cop, would not have ended up in a physical confrontation with Trayvon, to say the least of having shot him dead. (In Florida, pretty much all you do for a living in those jobs is to manage confrontation with white tweakers and bikers and thuggish-acting black and hispanic youths, and shooting them is considered in pretty bad form.)
After reading the disgraceful, irresponsible propaganda above, Leni Riefenstahl comes to mind.
Only an idiot White Guilt Liberal can push the racist ideology of the Black Racist KKK crowd.
Brutha aint gonna like White Guilt Liberal just cuz he want “Justice Fo’ Trayvon”
If Trayvon Martin was white...there are no charges
Where’s the barf alert?
Where’s the barf alert?
Where’s the barf alert?
Where’s the barf alert?
Where’s the barf alert?
Where’s the barf alert?
Where’s the barf alert?
"Could I be the next Trayvon Martin?"
Why, yes! You could! Deal drugs, steal, and assault people and you'll be well on your way to being the next Trayvon Martin.
"Justice for Trayvon"
Trayvon already got his justice ... six feet under.
Every city east of the Mississippi, with the exception of the very most upper mid west, is a “Chocolate City”. They are very concentrated.
The most disturbing thing to me in Mr. Skolnik’s article is that not once was there a suggestion or expression of hope that the truth of what really happened between Mr. Martin and Mr. Zimmerman be revealed.
Not once was there the idea of allowing the evidence to take us where it will in determining Mr. Zimmerman’s guilt or innocence.
No, Mr. Skolnik has already determined what the truth is - Mr. Zimmerman murdered Trayvon. Mr. Skolnik has already condemned Mr. Zimmerman without regard to the evidence - which hasn’t even been presented yet.
Mr. Skolnik has been willingly taken for a ride by the media from day one. He and nearly the entire black population of our country have been played the fools by the media from the beginning. The template has been set - Zimmerman is: white, hostile, racist, a wanabe cop, trigger-happy, AND murderer.
When the verdict has already been decided without regard to any evidence presented in a court of law, when the community where the “crime” happened and a nation is threatened with violence if the predetermined verdict is not reached by that same court of law, then all we have is vigilante “justice” in the worst sense of the word. Worse still, it’s really moral and judicial anarchy.
If anything, the community and the judicial system of Sanford, Florida failed the TRUTH and Mr. Zimmerman long ago because they allowed themselves to be pressured by an agenda driven media and “civil rights” groups into making decisions at the expense of Mr. Zimmerman.
No matter if the evidence supports Mr. Zimmerman’s innocence and he is acquitted - his life is forever changed. He will NEVER be free from injury or death because of the irresponsibility of the major media and the radical civil rights groups.
And Mr. Skolnik and others of his same mind-set will be completely at ease and will fully justify those who will riot in the streets if their predetermined verdict of Zimmerman’s guilt is not proclaimed.
I don’t know if Mr. Zimmerman is guilty or innocent. He may be guilty as sin. He may be completely innocent. My hope is that somehow the truth be overwhelmingly revealed whether it’s guilt or innocence. Either way, our nation has lost its soul and sanity because it appears that the truth as to what really happened is irrelevant to the media or the people they have inflamed with a blind passion for - what? Truth? Justice?
I think the media’s agenda in this story has always been gun-control, but if they can get a great story of white against black with rioting on the side - even better.
Commies always make heroes of the zeros. They always use racial demonization and division while playing the aggressor as a victim. They try to undermine justice and create hate and resentment.
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