Posted on 08/21/2020 12:35:11 PM PDT by rktman
An image of Trayvon Martin was prominently displayed behind the child who recited the Pledge of Allegiance on Thursday at the Democratic National Convention (DNC).
The poster of Trayvon Martin depicts him wearing a grey hoodie and holding a sign that reads, “I Am a Man.” The poster hung in the background as Cedric Richmond Jr., son of Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-LA), recited the pledge from New Orleans during the final night of the live-streamed convention.
In February 2012, former neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman shot and killed the teenage Martin in self-defense. He was charged, tried, then cleared of all charges in 2013, according to Breitbart News.
Following the acquittal, former President Barack Obama addressed the verdict.
“You know, when Trayvon Martin was first shot I said that this could have been my son. Another way of saying that is Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago,” he stated, according to the White House website.
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“One nation, under Trayvon.”
But I could be wrong but I think I remember Zimmerman saying he did not confront him.
My delusional what?
Ooooof! Kid said “under God”. He’ll have to be sent to re-education camp.
That would be Trayvon questioning Zimmerman.
Zimmerman [[“What are you doing around here?”]]
That would be zimmerman questioning trayvon
yeah i dunno- all i vaguely remembered was what she had said- could be he didn’t- she was a confirmed liar- and a real space cadet
Bump! I also noticed the “under God” statement.
I can remember when the Democrats proudly claimed and had fund-raising dinners in the name of Jefferson and Jackson and were also proud of Wilson and FDR. Now only FDR remains and I’m waiting for them to start having fund raisers in the name of Martin, Brown & Floyd except that that sounds too much like an upscale law firm!
Trayvon going on his 8th consecutive year of stability. Stable room temperature that is.
You are missing the important part of the girlfriend’s testimony. The part where Martin was surveilling Zimmerman and referred to Zimmerman as a “cracker”. Thus, it was Martin who was the racist.
That is a bit harsh. Your English is also deficient. I suspect you meant “you’re”, which is a contraction.
The following comments are from my website scrolled to after the article on Parkland Florida and the war on the NRA which should have been about the Promise policies used at that school.
The leadership of the so called political opposition (Republican) will wonder why as they lose a crucial election because of their inability to stand on principles. When Presidential actions should have been denouced and the police defended. When as President Obama initiated his racial division policy through the abuse of the “Bully Pulpit’ which went unchalanged and subsequently led to attacks on law enforcement. The only person to courageously do so was Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke and has because he is black received the “Uncle Tom” treatment
Clarke decried Obama’s abuse of the “Bully Pulpit” to create racial division which wound up using other similar incidents such as Ferguson MO and NYC.. Where Obama supported by the media would defend the attacker resisting arrest killed in the struggle over a law officers gun. Alledging the attacker was an “unarmed victim” of police brutality because he was black. Subsequently. There were continuous attacks on police ending up in a score of deaths.It Began when Obama used a non descript incident known as The Zimmerman trial and encouraged racial division through his twice use of the “Bully Pulpit”
. Obama defended the black attacker who was killed (a 17 year old 5’11 175 pound Trayvon Martin) by a 40 something year old 5’6” black hispanic (Jorge Zimmerman) working security in an integrated housing complex that was attacked by Martin knocking Zimmerman to the ground and the black youth was killed in a struggle over Zimmerman’s gun.
The media portayed the incident as Martin was an innocent black youth murdered in cold blood because he was black and the guard as a white hispanic guarding an exclusive white “gated”community .
Obama used the incident to declare racial division by using the “Bully Pulpit” declaring Martin was a victim of whites who could have been; First; “his son”, then; Obama himself.
When that inflammatory defense was picked by black gangs It also wound up and was used as an excuse to commit a score of racial assaults ending in deaths and serious injuries.
All the while this was happening in various areas of the country Such as the murder of an Australian visitor from Melbourne Christopher Lane killed while exercising on a Duncan Oklahoma street by members of the black gang known as the Crypts.
Such assaults were described by the press as “black youths with nothing better to do” Although there were some gang members who admitted their assaults were “for Trayvon” but met by stony silence from the democrats or denial from MSM because initially it was dismissed as a Obama miss-speak. As if he didn’t rely on a teleprompter for carefully prepared text checked out by advisers giving him the facts.
Shamefully members of the opposition so called Republicans chose not to condemn this but convenient to ignore. Thus demonstrate they are politically dysfunctional. Unwilling to work with or even recognize legitimate concerns from what they call the tea party who in reality are the Reagan voters of 2016 and unable to congeal into a unified working political unit. They did not learn from 2012,2014 and some continue to blow off 2016. http://www.theusmat.com/index.htm
Yes Miss Crabtree..................... :-)
This punk fatherless kid’s mother was in jail for who knows what. So he was roaming the streets under a hoody with a realistic weapon. I would guess that “mommy” should have faced child endangering charges because he had no baby sitter.
But the stupid mayor of Cleveland,Jackson, quickly apologized for the nasty cops who shot the kid, and she went on to become a multi-millionaire.
I was one of the first twenty people to contribute to the first Zimmerman defense fund, right after the shooting happened. Zimmerman did me a favor. I have always said now I have one less a-hole I have to worry about shooting me in the head during a night-time stick-up on my next vacation to Florida.
I prefer to think of myself as “Mr. Duffield”. He was my Junior High English teacher who schooled us in precision in speech and thought.
The crime here was what they did to Zimmerman. His life was destroyed for defending himself.
As the DNC deifies him at the convention, the spirit of Trayvon Martin is burning the storied cities of America.
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