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Trayvon Martin's parents planning book
United Press International ^ | December 13, 2013

Posted on 12/14/2013 9:18:01 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Trayvon Martin's parents are working on a book about the killing of their son and the trial and acquittal in Florida of George Zimmerman, publishers say. Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin met with publishers to discuss the book, the New York Times reported Friday. Publishing executives said the couple talked about the role of race in the killing and religion in their lives.

Trayvon was 17 and walking to a relative's house when he encountered Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, in a gated community in Sanford, Fla. The teenager was unarmed but Zimmerman's attorneys argued he jumped Zimmerman, who fired in self-defense.

Jan Miller, Fulton's and Martin's literary agent, joined the couple for the meetings, the executives told the Times.

While little attention was paid to the shooting immediately after Trayvon was killed in February 2012, the news media began covering it when his family questioned the police decision to release Zimmerman without charges. Zimmerman's trial this year received national and international attention.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: publishing; sybrinafulton; trayvon; zimmerman
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Trayvon Martin's parents are working on a book

Who's going to write it for them?

21 posted on 12/14/2013 9:27:39 AM PST by Lizavetta
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Ah....what a family....And the other son was in some kind of rehab for criminals...he was a bad boy, too. They cleaned him up and presented him as some kind of success.

The whole family is a bunch of crooks. Daddy's with a girlfriend. Real momma kicked Tray out...

it's all about money AND I hate whitey.

22 posted on 12/14/2013 9:27:51 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Hang on, George! Once they put it in writing, they can't refute it during the defamation lawsuit.
23 posted on 12/14/2013 9:28:29 AM PST by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: Conspiracy Guy

The character pops up from behind a lit bush and tries to knock out the reader with one punch


24 posted on 12/14/2013 9:28:29 AM PST by digger48
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To: Conspiracy Guy

Hope it is not in cursive!

Anyone remember those typewriters, back in the 1960s that typed in cursive?


25 posted on 12/14/2013 9:28:55 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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To: Conspiracy Guy

26 posted on 12/14/2013 9:28:59 AM PST by EEGator
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Will there be a chapter on how to cash in on your son’s death?


27 posted on 12/14/2013 9:29:08 AM PST by VRW Conspirator ( V)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

From day 1 they have been trying to make money. They’re just despicable.


29 posted on 12/14/2013 9:31:00 AM PST by Ray76
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

” but Zimmerman’s attorneys argued he jumped Zimmerman,”

NO, dumbassUPI . . .THE JURY FOUND that

Good Lord, what bias in this whole case from start to post-verdict . . . stupid people that can’t think for themselves


30 posted on 12/14/2013 9:32:12 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat (Obamacare: We told you so)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The character pops up from behind a lit bush and tries to knock out the reader with one punch.

The knockout game?

31 posted on 12/14/2013 9:33:13 AM PST by Liberty Wins ( The average lefty is synapse challenged)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“How to raise a worfless, purple-drank guzzling, fighting, lying, thieving, Son-of-a-Barack.”


32 posted on 12/14/2013 9:34:44 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Last Obamacare Promise: "If You Like Your Eternal Soul, You Can Keep It.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Profiting from every once of Trayvon’s blood they can squeeze out of his dead corpse.


33 posted on 12/14/2013 9:34:51 AM PST by Rebelbase (Tagline: optional, printed after your name on post)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If these people want to continue to market to Trayvon fans reading material might not be the right way to go.


34 posted on 12/14/2013 9:35:28 AM PST by skeeter
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Trayvon Martin’s parents planning book


Title; “Milking Satan like the white devil he is”...
forwards by Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton...


35 posted on 12/14/2013 9:35:38 AM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Will the topics of Trayvon’s training himself to be a burgler , and his recreational drug use, be topics that are explored by his parents in their book ?

Too bad Tray’s parents had not educated him in the rights of citizen self defence, perhaps Tray would be alive today.


36 posted on 12/14/2013 9:35:55 AM PST by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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HA...it will be bought by government agencies and forced on educators, and students....


37 posted on 12/14/2013 9:36:27 AM PST by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods.)
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To: Conspiracy Guy

Maybe they can get Bill Ayers to ghost-write it for them.


38 posted on 12/14/2013 9:37:33 AM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It will be published as fiction.


39 posted on 12/14/2013 9:40:56 AM PST by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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Publishing executives said the couple talked about the role of race in the killing

So they're writing a children's fiction book?
Sheesh. Some people will do anything for easy money.

40 posted on 12/14/2013 9:44:18 AM PST by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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