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A Decade of Deceit and Division: What Trayvon Wrought
Townhall.com ^ | February 24, 2022 | Jack Cashill

Posted on 02/24/2022 3:31:35 AM PST by Kaslin

Although he certainly did not intend to, the drugged and despondent 17-year-old who wandered through a failing Florida subdivision on a rainy February night ten years ago Saturday launched a new phase in the American civil rights movement.

This was to be the Jacobin phase, the phase in which traditional civil rights standards such as equality before the law and innocent until proven guilty yielded to mob rule and race-based outcomes.

Seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin would not live to see this transition. The 28-year-old man who shot and killed Trayvon, George Zimmerman, has lived in the shadows of Jacobin justice every day of the last ten years, always with an eye out for assassins like the one who nearly killed him in 2015.

On February 26, 2012, Trayvon had reason to be despondent. His school had suspended him for the third time that school year. His mother, Sybrina Fulton, had kicked him out of the house. His father, Tracy Martin, had abandoned the stepmother who helped raise Trayvon for a new girlfriend, Brandy Green. And, most immediately, "Diamond," the 16-year-old who had stolen his heart, was playing him for a fool.

Exiled to Green's townhouse in Sanford, 250 miles from his Miami home, Trayvon texted and called throughout that last day looking for reassurance from Diamond. He didn't get it. Instead, she taunted him with tales of her "clubbing" adventures the night before. In his final texts that rainy Sunday, Trayvon's desperation showed through: "wat up with u man how u feel bout me cuz u not say cuz bout to hung up ur ass."

For George, meanwhile, it was just another Sunday. About 7 P.M. that evening, he headed out to Target to buy lunch meat for a week's worth of sandwiches.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: hoax; trayvon; trial; zimmerman
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To: marktwain

I only which the article had gone into detail on the contents of Martin’s social media. He was violent gangster to the core, obscene sexism and all.


21 posted on 02/28/2022 1:24:52 PM PST by fwdude (Every time I see someone voluntarily masked in public, I know I'm looking at a vaccinated person.)
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To: DeplorablePaul
Trayvon did us a favor. He set the standard justifying the use of deadly force against an unarmed attacker. Zimmerman waited until the last second, with Trayvon pounding his head into the pavement, before he used his weapon to defend himself.

Does that mean that the rest of us have to wait until our heads have been pounded into the pavement for 40 seconds before we can defend ourselves?

22 posted on 02/28/2022 1:41:33 PM PST by fwdude (Every time I see someone voluntarily masked in public, I know I'm looking at a vaccinated person.)
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To: Western Phil; All
I suspect it should say Trayvon instead of George.

Yes, it should say Trayvon instead of George. You are correct.

23 posted on 02/28/2022 1:42:16 PM PST by marktwain (Amazing people can read a persons entire personality and character from one photograph.)
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To: fwdude

According to my lawyer, yes. Shooting an unarmed assailant is very difficult to defend.


24 posted on 02/28/2022 9:24:18 PM PST by DeplorablePaul (s)
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