Posted on 02/20/2022 7:19:09 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
University of Miami journalism professor Tsitsi Wakhisi remembers Trayvon Martin.
Ten years ago, Sybrina Fulton joined the Black mothers’ crying line.
She had lost her 17-year-old son, Trayvon, after he had walked too slowly in the rain at his father’s housing complex in Sanford. It made his killer, George Zimmerman, think he was “suspicious.”
Since then, more Black mothers have joined Fulton in the crying line, and still more are coming.
But Black mothers have been crying for centuries, mourning the sons they got … but did not get to keep.
Not in America.
Whether slave owners yanked your child from your arms during slavery, the KKK lynched him and hung him from a tree post, or a neighbor found him on the pavement last week after a drive-by shooting, mothers are crying.
We are powerless against systemic racism and the toxic environment that evolves because of it.
Black mothers in America are consigned to a war we should not have to fight and are not supposed to win. Our eyes seemingly never dry because every day something happens or is waiting to happen that can turn a walk home, a drive to the store, a jog through the neighborhood, an unlocking of a front door, a whistling at a white girl in Mississippi into a death sentence for our children.
After Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck for 9½ minutes, Floyd called out, “Mama, Mama” as he lay grasping for breath and dying, but Larcenia Floyd had been dead for two years.
You shouldn’t have to cry in heaven.
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
And, re: Saint Trayvon, maybe don’t go peeking in other peoples’ windows, and then ground-and-pound the Neighborhood Watch guy when he confronts you about your behavior.
Too may Black sons don’t have a father at home. Until that changes, nothing will help much.
Didn’t Elvis sing a song about this oh like...
50 years ago!!
and his mama cried....
And the advice for the mothers should be to not rely upon the welfare state to fund your single-parenthood of these would-be criminal sons.
If you don’t stay around and help raise your child, you are not a “father” - you are a sire.
This line is of particular interest:
“Tsitsi Wakhisi teaches journalism at the School of Communication at the University of Miami.”
In the Ghetto...
And the black fathers?
The greatest cause of black poverty is not whitey. It is black men who impregnate women and leave them.
Blacks need to me reminded every morning in school that when a police officer gives a command, obey it, don’t run, keep your hands in sight. It’s what I would do as a White man so it’s not racist, it may keep yo alive.
In every incident lately when a Black has to be shot, it’s started b them not obeying a command or having a weapon that poses a threat.
Well I don't mean to be picky, but I believe sweet Trayvon smashing Zimmerman's head against the sidewalk might have played a wee part in his spot of bad luck that night.
Ask any of those ‘mothers’ where their sons are right now and they do not know. “He’s out with his friends.”
Yep, not much has changed in 50 years except for fewer fathers in the home and higher crime rates.
Too many black mother are raising animals.
Like it or not blacks in this country and wherever they congregate as a distinct minority live within their own culture. They develop values, habits, and behaviors that are different than those of the majority. Throughout history when a culture is not sound, sustainable or productive, it eventually collapses. That is not to say that the so called majority culture has avoided decadence and is equally flawed and perhaps doomed.
at this juncture... who gives af...
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