Posted on 05/03/2017 7:43:32 PM PDT by TigerClaws
Five years after his death sparked international dialog about racism, social justice and community policing, Trayvon Martin will be honored for the industrial ambitions he held as a teenager growing up in Sanford, FL. Florida Memorial University will posthumously award a bachelor’s of aeronautical science to Martin, to be received by his parents Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin during the school’s annual spring commencement ceremony on May 13.
Officials say the degree honors Martin’s life-long dream of becoming a pilot, and continues to highlight the family’s commitment to social justice. Martin’s parents, both social justice activists and co-founders of The Trayvon Martin Foundation, which is housed on the FMU campus.
“As we approach 50 years in Miami Gardens, this commencement holds a special place in all of our hearts. This academic year is symbolic of the transformative changes that we continue tomake to our academic programs that extend to benefit the community, such as our Cybersecurity degree program and Cyber Warrior Diversity center that offers certificates to local residents and professionals,” said Florida Memorial President Roslyn Clark-Artis. “Of special significance is awarding posthumously the Bachelor of Science Degree in Aviation to Trayvon Martin. Sybrina, our alum, epitomizes strength and dignity as she uplifts other victims of violence while effecting change for a more equal and just society.”
Florida Memorial University is also one of four universities nationally designated as a CESSNA pilot center.
I’ve had a lifelong dream of being an emperor. I wonder if I could get a school to give me a degree for wanting to be an emperor?
Little 6’2” Trayvon did redefine the meaning of head banger didn’t he. That’s gotta be worth something too. A No Bell Pounder Prize with a case of Skittles maybe.
I can’t believe anyone still mourns someone who was trying to kill someone and only by the thinnest of margins was Zimmerman able to stop him. Unfortunately or fortunately, depending on how one looks at it, the one shot killed the criminal in training. Who knows; he may have gone on to commit some kind of mass murder later in life if Zimmerman hadn’t killed him.
It still angers me that George Zimmerman, the person who was a hero that night, was even charged in the first place. Talk about a racial witch hunt!! Racism is alive and well in the black community for sure.
I’ll never be over Macho Grande.
Hey, maybe they can give him a posthumous degree from the Air Force Academy, then posthumous wings from UPT. Then he can become a posthumous F-15 pilot, then he could receive a posthumous Medal of Honor. Hey, the possibilities are endless. /S
Memorializing criminal assaulters helps no one but race baiting grifters
and harms those that it professes to help.
You know right away she's a liberal.
Leni
For burglary or drug sales?
He didn’t attempt to assault Zimmerman. He DID assault Zimmerman. What Trayvon attempted to do was MURDER George Zimmerman.
And this punk is being honored. SMH.
If a degree doesn’t require scholastic achievement, where is my PHD?
funny what someone who attempted murder and who was a drug addict can achieve after death- this is nothing but a slap in the face for all law abiding hard working people who struggle to make it in this life by following the rules and being decent people, instead of beign some lowlife who smashes someone’s head into the concrete in an attempt to murder them!
Yep! There ain’t no justice.
I did the first two years of my EE at one of those “dodgy community colleges.” Then when I transfered to the University for upper class I was laughing at how ill- prepared the University’s own students were. “Dodgy” indeed.
Officials say the degree honors Martin’s life-long PIPE dream of becoming a pilot.
Florida Memorial is a private, historically-black school that is 1 of 39 member institutions of the united negro college fund.
An aeronautical science degree sounds to me like a hard-core engineering type program. In actuality, it’s four years in flight education or ATC. For flight education they require a year of algebra and a semester of physics.
They probably misunderstood when he said all he wanted to do was get real high.
A lifetime achievement award...for a life well-lived. He and Chelsea...two skittles in a bag.
"WULD I MISS KROP [high school]?? HELL NAW FUK DA SKOOL, FUK DA LUNCH, ND MOST OF ALL FUK DA FACULTY..... IMA MISS SUM OF DA STUDENTS, MAINLY DA BABIES ;)"
Considering his academic potential and love of learning, I'm surprised they didn't award him an honorary doctorate.
Regards,
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.