Posted on 07/07/2013 5:13:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Trayvon Martin case has been nothing short of heartbreak from the very beginning. Regardless of what anyone believes about Trayvon's past, his innocence or George Zimmerman's, the fact remains that a teenager is dead. I honestly didn't think I would get emotionally broken up more than I was over the story that Rachel Jeantel's friendship with Martin stemmed from the fact he was one of the only people who never picked on her. The story painted such a tragic picture of friendship and two people whose lives will never be the same.
Then came this week's testimonies and reactions from Trayvon Martin's parents to leave me – and so much of America – floored. On Friday morning, Sybrina Fulton took the stand to talk about her son. As part of her testimony she had to identify her child's screams in his finals seconds of life. Later in the day, Tracy Martin had to sit in court as the medical examiner, Dr Bao, explained how Trayvon died in severe pain and was alive for minutes after getting shot in the chest.
Essentially, Friday – almost as much as the day Trayvon was shot – was any parent's nightmare. Trayvon's parents had to come face to face with their son's murder while Fulton got questioned over whether or not her son actually deserved to get killed. Tracy had to sit in the same room as the man who shot his son in the chest, unable to retaliate or let the rage he has to be feeling out.
Yes, this is the worst imaginable day for a parent. But it's one the parents of an African-American child has been conditioned to accept as a possibility....
David Dennis
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
lol are you kidding? That is horrifying, and it’s not a starting point by any means, it’s the end result of a welfare state.
Winner.
Where did you read that? I thought the report was that the dad was contacted at 8:00 a.m. the following morning ......
Right. See my post at #63...
Well, it IS the Guardian. Their leanings are quite well known. Think of it as equivalent to The New York Times, The Boston Globe and The LA Times.
Thanks, Hoodat. I just got up this morning and re-read it, I was pretty hot after reading that piece of crap liberal article.
Apparently the author does not understand the meaning of the word “murder”. Trayvon Martin was not murdered, he was killed by a “creepy assed cracker” exercising lawful self-defense (regardless of what 12 nitwits in Flur-id-dah think). Which explains why the left hates the Second Amendment. Absent the IInd, bullies and thugs will rule America.
So. To be nice to sensitive black families an innocent man has to go to jail.
Sorry. I’m not that nice.
Sara, it used to be said that God created man, and Sam Colt made them equal.
Without that equality Zimmerman would be dead, and not Trayvon.
Of course the pistol was not a Colt, but the reference is still legitimate.
His mother (who he hasn't seen in 16 years) got a million dollars already from the HOA.
A better question would be, does the Guardian care?
“The violent, criminal thug as victim is one of the most common liberal false narratives.”
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Absolutely, some of the people who have contributed the most to this country in the past have grown up in circumstances that would make Trayvon Martin look like the “fortunate son”. They didn’t sell drugs or steal, they worked like few people can even conceive of in this age.
There are probably not a half dozen young people in this country who have any concept of how hard I worked as a boy and my father constantly told me how much easier I had it compared to his youth and guess what? I believe my father was telling the truth! I can clearly recall seeing him come in from the fields when I was a small boy and pull off his shirt and hang it on the back of a straight chair. It would literally stiffen up as if starched and turn white from the salt from his sweat as it dried. I have seen him tie a black and white plow horse under a shade tree to rest because the horse looked white all over from salt. He said the horse needed rest but he didn’t because he was just walking, the horse was pulling a plow.
I thought this had to be the case. It's the breakdown of the family unit and the secularization of our society that's driving the crime rates.
You’re right on this issue Steve...
No, I'm saying that no matter how hard a parent works to raise good children, those children can be swayed by the culture. Race has nothing to do with it.
In the early evening there were two women holding hands walking with a young man. All three were white. They were approached by two young black men who started calling the women by demeaning names, accusing them of being lesbians. The man walking with the women told the two black men to mind their own business and go away. One of the black men pulled out a .45 and pistol whipped the white man to the ground and then threatened to shoot all three of them. The women started screaming and the two black men ran away. All this happened in broad daylight.
The two black men are still at large.
There was not a single word in our local newspaper about it. I read about the crime on the city Police website.
I am not a supporter of homosexuality, but if two women want to holds hands it is a free country last time I checked. This kind of thing sickens me. It is meaningless intolerance, violence, and thuggery.
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