Posted on 09/10/2015 9:06:52 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Close to four years after George Zimmerman killed Trayvon Martin in 2012, and over two years after Zimmerman was acquitted in a criminal trial, an attorney for Martin’s family is still cashing in on the case with speaking engagements.
Later this week, on Sept. 10, attorney Jasmine Rand will deliver a lecture entitled “I Am Trayvon Martin: Hoodies Up” at the taxpayer-funded University of Georgia, reports The College Fix.
Rand will receive $3,500 for her speech, a school spokeswoman indicated.
The personal injury lawyer appears to have a standard “Hoodies Up” spiel that involves the “use of the media to further a social justice cause” and her “experience as a professor that encouraged her students to work side by side on her case and launch what became an international movement.”
“From her students lips to President Obama’s ears, upon the announcement of the not guilty verdict, the President of the United States stood by the family and said, ‘I too Am Trayvon,'” Rand’s lecture description also states.
The full description of Rand’s lecture is “I Am Trayvon Martin: Hoodies Up — How One Case Changed a Nation & Ignited the World.”
Rand continues to believe the Florida jury that decided in Zimmerman’s favor reached the wrong verdict. The fight between Zimmerman and Martin that escalated into a fatal shooting was a “human rights” violation, Rand believes.
“If you break down every aspect of the Trayvon Martin case, things that are tangible and things that are intangible, you’re dealing with civil and human rights, and so much of that is not quantifiable in a traditional sense,” the trial lawyer said, according to a glowing UGA Today press release. “So there are certain aspects that have a very real influence on leading a movement and creating social change and changing the law that have nothing to do with black letter law.”
The University of Georgia’s Institute for African American Studies is sponsoring Rand’s lecture.
Rand is a 2004 graduate of the school. She majored in African-American studies and political science.
After Zimmerman was acquitted in his criminal trial, the U.S. Department of Justice eventually announced in February 2015 that it would not seek federal civil rights charges against Zimmerman.
When the Zimmerman criminal trial verdict was announced, a professor of religious studies at the University of Pennsylvania argued that the verdict demonstrated that God is a racist who opposes black people.
“God ain’t good all of the time,” the professor, Anthea Butler, declared. “In fact, sometimes, God is not for us. As a black woman in an [sic] nation that has taken too many pains to remind me that I am not a white man, and am not capable of taking care of my reproductive rights, or my voting rights, I know that this American god ain’t my god.”
In April 2015, the University of Georgia hosted a psychology professor, Enrique W. Neblett, Jr., who lectured about his belief that racism causes black college students to gain weight during the first year on campus.
Jasmine Rand also describes herself as a “Social Engineer”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qhhnNw6UaU
Congressional Black Caucus Brings ‘Hands Up! Don’t Shoot’ To the House Floor
by Charlie Spiering2 Dec 2014
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/12/02/congressional-black-caucus-bring-hands-up-don-t-shoot-to-the-house-floor/
Speaking on the House floor, members of the Congressional Black Caucus used the “Hands up! Don’t Shoot” gesture popular with Ferguson protesters reacting to the shooting of Michael Brown.
“Hands up, don’t shoot,” said Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY)
“It’s a rallying cry of people all across America who are fed up with police violence.”
“It was a John Carlos moment,” pointed out Rep. Al Green (D-TX)
“Because this has become the new symbol, a new statement, a statement wherein people around the country now are calling to the attention of those who do quite understand that this is a movement that will not dissipate. It will not evaporate.”
Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-NY) (D-N.Y.) criticized the “attacks” by the Ferguson police department. She says they demonstrated “an assumption that young women and men who are African-American are inherently suspicious, a false assumption with deadly consequences.”
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) praised the St. Louis Rams players who raised their hands prior to Sunday’s football game. “Let me say that I also admire the young St. Louis Rams players who raised their hands, to be able to share in the dignity of those young peaceful protesters,” she said.
VIDEOS at site
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)
Rep. Yvette Clarke, (D-N.Y.)
Rep. Al Green, (D-TX)
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX)
In other words, leftist bull$hit : )
That’s a revealing article about Rep. Bobby Rush. The twothings that stand out are:
1. The story about his son Huey being shot to death, and the killer getting a sentence of 90 years, and;
2. Pleading to end the mass incarceration of black people that is “eviscerating” our comminities.
I’ll bet baby Huey’s killer was black. How many letters requesting Executive Clemency for Huey’s killer has Rep. Rush written to the Governor of Illinois?
Good connecting of the dots.
I didn’t see that.
Prior to the trial , Jasmine Rand function was identified on 'Team Crump' was that of a " SOCIAL ENGINEER" to the team.
It was her job to organize, distribute, and control the language of the media and news organizations,
and to disperse this controlled information also through social media ( such as: facebook, twitter, and other personalized platforms).
In other words, as an attorney, she coordinated all the pre-trial publicity, the grassroots 'rumor mill', the media events, and the 'demonstrators' .
In other words , she was a legalistic community organizers' advertising agent .
Obviously, she accomplished much as many people still believe the rumors , rather than the legal results of the trial.
Scratch the surface and all liberal doctrine is illogical, and it’s adherents never practice it personally. They are hypocrites. I can’t stand hypocrites.
Hoodies up?
Howabout hoodies down, pants up, and don’t loot.
There. That will be $3500 please from the idgit who paid for this Hoodies up speech.
I think it was the obvious attempt by the media, the judicial system, and Obama to railroad a conviction of Zimmerman for what was a clear case of self-defense that helped unhinge the deranged Charleston shooter.
Like, wow. Heavy, dude.
They keep calling her a “trial lawyer.”
In reality she is an affirmative action race baiter.
And a VERY low mentality one.
So let me see if a I have this straight-—
She deals with things that are
“intangible”
“not quantifiable in a traditional sense”
“certain aspects that have nothing to do with black letter law”
Does she sell snake oil too?
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