Posted on 07/22/2013 10:21:28 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
PHILADELPHIA The mother of slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will speak in Philadelphia at the National Urban Leagues annual conference, which will focus on civil rights, voting rights and job creation.
The four-day event, which begins Wednesday, comes less than a month after the Supreme Court struck down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act and not long after the man who shot Martin was acquitted in the racially charged case....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
the Miami-Dade County Commission passed a resolution sponsored by Bruno Barreiro, Barbara Jordan and Jose Pepe Diaz to allow county employees to donate vacation time to Fulton or Trayvons aunt, Yolanda Knight Evans, a water and sewer customer-service representative.
.... The $50,000 cap the commission set on the value of the time donated was reached in two weeks, county spokeswoman Suzy Trutie said..........
Records show 192 county employees gave Fulton some of their hours, and 70 people donated to Knight Evans.
The donations for Fulton added up to 1,362 hours a total of 34 paid weeks off. Trayvons aunt collected nearly nine weeks.
Fulton is expected to appear before the commission on Tuesday to thank the county for its support.
Records show the donors included deputy mayor Jack Osterholt, who gave her eight hours, and Stan Hills, the former head of the fire union.
By far the most generous contributor was county clerks office employee Eric Cherelus, who gave Trayvons mother and aunt each an entire week of his vacation time.
Fulton and Trayvons father, Tracey Martin, who is a truck driver, continue to work for the Justice for Trayvon Martin Foundation.
Somebody trademark Traymom quick.
That picture needs a fugly alert.
One commented this way..lol...
“It was great that Sybrina Fulton will use Trayvons name to expand his legacy,.... maybe with her own line of handgun-accessories like hollow-point-thug-bullets or perhaps some marijuana items like a Trayvon-brand-pot or maybe some bongs and roach clips or maybe some burglary tools like crow bars, lock-cutters, and glass cutters or maybe have a t-shirt with a gun-target on it with a picture of Trayvon inside the bullseye.”
Apparently, Trayvon’s mom needs to address how to ditch 12 years of raising your kid and still be an expert on his civil rights.
I couldn’t care less what these morons have to say. Don’t want you boy to get shot? Don’t raise him to be a thug. One of the hazards of the profession. Not every white person is going to lay down for a beat down.
There is power in it for Holder and money in it for Mom
BTW It was rare I saw her weep...or grieve....sh’es been pretty much stoic throughout...so whatever her definition of “allowing America to see her grief”...is meaningless...I din’t see that at all...at best a show.
The Urban League is a Communist organization.
Both parents doing the “sobfest” on Dr. Phil today....ugh! I’m so tired of this BS, and wondering when it will finally fade away. All this manufactured race war crap is simply an Alynsky tactic to divert attention from the damage being done by this administration.
Any idea when that picture was taken? I’ve never seen it, thanks for sharing!
Att. Daryl Parks and Pres.Obama...Friends?
I don’t...just that it was before the death of her son...
<....”wondering when it will finally fade away”.....>
Not any time soon...Remember OBama said “they don’t forget”....it will never end...there will always be one episode or another to continue the race debate....it keeps them in bondage which is what many want and desire.
VOTING RIGHTS??? in PHILLY???
You mean, where the Black Panthers stood outside the precinct with clubs and antagonized WHITE AMERICANS???
WHERE ARE THE DAMN REPUBLICANS ASKING HOLDER THIS QUESTION???
Perhaps she will announce her candidacy for the U.S. Senate or U.S. House. Obama and Holder would, I am sure, endorse her —
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