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Trayvon Martin’s Stepmother Speaks Out: ‘They Ignore Me…But I Raised Him’ [VIDEO]
News One For Black America ^ | June 30, 2013 | Kirsten West Savali

Posted on 06/30/2013 4:37:30 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

In an emotional interview with Anderson Cooper, Trayvon Martin‘s stepmother, Alicia Stanley, opened up about her inconsolable grief at the loss of a boy she helped to raise for 14 years, Zimmerman’s guilt, Trayvon’s character and being ignored by Trayvon’s father, Tracy Martin.

Her voice shaking with pain and tears in her eyes, Stanley explained that she had helped raise Trayvon since he was 3-years-old, and that he was at her home with his father and her daughters “90 percent” of the time.

“Trayvon was a kind person, a loving person,” Stanley told Cooper. “He loved children, babies. You know before this happened, I really believed he would have been working with children; he adored children. He’s not what the media make him out to be…this thug.”

Stanley said that when the media started coming around, Tracy Martin stopped communicating with her and she didn’t understand why.

“He would just he was busy.”

Rachel Jeantel, 19, the last person to speak to Trayvon before Zimmerman killed him, testified that he referred to Zimmerman as a ‘creepy-ass cracker,” but Stanley is skeptical.

“We didn’t teach that kind of language in our home.”(continued)

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: asscracker; florida; traydmark; trayvon; zimmerman
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trayvon was a thug-in-training. An apprentice, as it were, but very willing to learn.


41 posted on 06/30/2013 5:57:41 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: Paladin2

Isn’t it curious? In all the coverage of this trial, so far, not one mention of Trayvon’s drug use.


42 posted on 06/30/2013 6:00:47 PM PDT by Misterioso (It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing - Duke Ellington)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Don’t let your babies grow up to be street thugs. It’s the culture that turned him into a creature of the night, all that gangsta’ crap and rap. It was slow motion suicide waiting for the right creepy ass cracker to finish what Trayvon was working on.


43 posted on 06/30/2013 6:01:08 PM PDT by pallis
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So the homeowners association gave money to parents who didn’t raise their child?


44 posted on 06/30/2013 6:03:07 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: RginTN

It just keeps getting better and better.


45 posted on 06/30/2013 6:05:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's next run. What'll you do?)
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To: UCANSEE2

So the woman in the courtroom is riding high now on her sons death... that she facilitated by her failure as his mother.

Not to mention a father who can’t keep his women straight.

Teenagers do and say stupid things...but Trayvon chose his gang friends and he chose to act and be hoodish....what did he expect?


46 posted on 06/30/2013 6:05:53 PM PDT by caww
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/trayvon-martins-mom-says-shooting-was-accident

“I believe it was an accident,” Fulton said. “I believe that it just got out of control and he couldn’t turn the clock back. I would ask him, did he know that that was a minor, that that was a teenager, and that he did not have a weapon?”


47 posted on 06/30/2013 6:06:18 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

REMOVAL of tenant case against a Sabrina Fulton in 2006 in broward county by a Garry Martin


48 posted on 06/30/2013 6:13:49 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick


49 posted on 06/30/2013 6:16:30 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: pallis
There hasn't been any thing presented to indicate that Zimmerman is a "creepy ass-cracker," other than #8's testimony that St. Trayvon thought he was.

She told him he was gonna be raped. Either she believed St. Trayvon was correct, or more likely she was in his words "playing him."

50 posted on 06/30/2013 6:18:33 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Don't assume Shahanshah Obama will allow another election.)
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To: mountn man

Exactly! Somebody needs attention and it will likely backfire...


51 posted on 06/30/2013 6:43:48 PM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Must have been another trevon martin


52 posted on 06/30/2013 6:54:47 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: RummyChick

The way I look at it the family and Crump are doing damage control after the Creepy A@@ Cracker comment. They don’t want the cracker jurors to take offense and let Zimmerman walk so they are trying to back pedal and take the racism out of it after they put it in from the start. It is too late for them to do that.


53 posted on 06/30/2013 7:07:08 PM PDT by sheikdetailfeather (Yuri Bezmenov (KGB Defector) - "Kick The Communists Out of Your Govt. & Don't Accept Their Goodies.")
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To: sheikdetailfeather

incorrect. that statement is from last year.


54 posted on 06/30/2013 7:24:17 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: UCANSEE2

Did you read what this step mom was saying after the incident?

She claims her and the dad only separated 2 weeks before the incident. That the dad was a good dad and only trying to get justice for ‘their’ son.

I think she is full of it. At first I had some empathy, due to the years she was a parent to skittles, but after reading these earlier words, the woman has an agenda.

What a sick and sad bunch of people.


55 posted on 06/30/2013 7:58:05 PM PDT by AllAmericanGirl44 ('Hey citizen, what's in YOUR closet?')
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To: ASA Vet

Yes, I understand why you would say that, but what would someone have to do to be a “creepy ass cracker” to Trayvon or his girlfriend? I suspect the qualification for being a creepy ass cracker is being white, or in Zimmerman’s case, being something other than black. I personally don’t think George was acting creepy, nor do I think he should be called a cracker. I do think now that creepy ass cracker has been introduced through this farce of justice, we should keep it front and center for social commentary.


56 posted on 06/30/2013 8:01:08 PM PDT by pallis
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To: RginTN

No, that would be the HOA insurance company. Probably cheaper than defending the suit, opening the door to more $hakedown from the Sharpton/Jackson industry, and avoiding a boycott/bad publicity. Take your lumps and move on. Pass the loss on to your customers. I’m sure the HOA’s rates went up.


57 posted on 06/30/2013 8:21:43 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: VRWC For Truth

That explains it.


58 posted on 06/30/2013 8:25:55 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: madprof98

kids need “parents”
*************

A mommy (female) and a daddy (male).


59 posted on 06/30/2013 8:28:11 PM PDT by lyby ("Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe." ~ Galileo Galilei)
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To: pallis

St Skittles, the thug, was protecting his turf at RATL. Since it was dark, and raining, he thought GZ was just another thug following him on his home turf. GZ was as just as a shadowy figure to him as he was to GZ.


60 posted on 06/30/2013 8:35:22 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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