SAY AMEN SUMBUDDY!!!
Posted on 03/10/2014 7:43:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
More than a thousand people marched on the state Capitol today demanding a repeal of Stand Your Ground legislation. When they left, they left with a threat.
Led by the Reverend Al Sharpton, police estimate 1200 people came from as far as Miami with a common goal.
“We’re trying to amend the Stand Your Ground law,” said Virginia Lawrence of College Park, GA. “Can you imagine all the injustice?”
On stage, Congresswoman Corrine Brown (D-Jacksonville) called the state and Stand Your Ground “stuck on stupid.”
Trayvon Martin’s mother said she would not let her son die in vain. “Right is right and wrong is wrong,” said Trayvon Martin’s mother Sybrina Fulton. “Stand Your Ground is absolutely, positively wrong. And it has to be changed.”
And the mother of the Jacksonville teen killed over loud music said change must come. “It was a shady law known as Stand Your Ground that robbed his father and I of any hope for justice,” said mother of Jordan Davis, Lucia McBath.
The Reverend Al Sharpton told the crowd that Florida is “standin’ on shaky ground.” He said he’s here because this is where Stand Your Ground began. “It started in Florida. And we’ve come to start the ending of it in Florida.”
The biggest surprise came at the end: A call for boycotting two of Florida’s largest companies, Disney and Tropicana. That’s because the two support the group that pushed Stand Your Ground.
“And the small world is gon’ start crumblin’ down,” said Rev. Jamal Bryant. “And Tropicana, you gon’ feel the squeeze.”
As this was wrapping up, organizers say this was more than a march, this was a launch.
Organizers say they’ve given the companies until April 4th to help support the repeal or face the consequence. They chose that date in particular because it’s the day Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated.
Her Sizzurp drinking, weed smokin, wanna be gang banger son ?
George Zimmerman was clearly innocent, I really dont know all the facts about the loud music one.
But my theory is that a lot of these young black boys might be alive today had the All Black Church not turned their back on God.
Sorry its just my theory
Not that other groups have not also turned their back on God, absolutely they have, Catholic Democrats etc for example, and more
Blacks disproportionately benefit from the stand your ground laws. It time to put these blacks in prison where they belong!
That is what she was saying, isn’t it?
Sharpton is an anachronism.
I think she’s saying that criminals should have free reign and not have to worry about armed victims.
Marching worked in the 60’s because men like Martin Luther King, Jr. had the moral high ground.
Marching so Trayvons of the world can bash a person’s head against concrete isn’t Selma... it isn’t civil rights... it’s just tacky.
“Sharpton is an anachronism.”
Wrapped in a cretin.
When do we boycott sharptongue?
The stupid and ignorance is on intense display here. It is sad to watch these people being played. They cannot possibly know that Stand Your Ground was not used in the Zimmerman defense, or the Jordan Davis case.
Zimmerman was acquitted, Michael Dunn was found guilty of attempted murder.
A was noted, more black people use the Stand Your Ground defense than do white people, proportionality.
No facts, just emotion. Sad, Sad and dangerous.
“We’re trying to amend the Stand Your Ground law,” said Virginia Lawrence of College Park, GA. “Can you imagine all the injustice?”
Wait a second, you don’t even live in Florida. What gives you the right to tell people in Florida what laws to change?
A bus ticket and box lunch from Bloomberg?
Hey - don’t let facts get in the way, Fulton. SYG was not a factor. Not by your attorneys, not by the State Attorneys. Your use your son’s corpse as a prop for your politics is disgraceful. Shame on you.
What kind of person runs out and trademarks their son’s name?
Application Serial Number 85575974
Filed 03/21/2012
http://tsdr.uspto.gov/documentviewer?caseId=sn85575974&docId=APP20120324080734#docIndex=24&page=1
Dinosaurs tilting at windmills? Obviously a mixed metaphor...
lol...
“that robbed his father and I”
OOOH trying to sound soo smart?
robbed father and robbed I ?
Illiterate electorate is America’s cancer.
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