Posted on 12/14/2014 6:40:28 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Their sons -- Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice and Eric Garner -- have become symbols of a raging national conversation about police brutality and racial injustice.
The mothers of these four unarmed black men and boys felled by bullets or excessive police force have no doubt their sons would still be alive if they were white. No question, they say.
"I think absolutely my son's race and the color of his skin had a lot to do with why he was shot and killed," Sybrina Fulton, Martin's mother, told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Friday. "In all of these cases, these victims were unarmed. These victims were African-American. That needs to be our conversation."
In their first interview together, Fulton was joined by Brown's mother, Lesley McSpadden; Tamir's mother, Samaria Rice; and Garner's mother, Gwen Carr. They spoke of reliving the horrific final moments of their son's lives with each controversial death, of gaining strength from protesters and other supporters, of the importance of coming together to effect change.
"It seems our kids are getting younger and younger," Fulton said. "They're killing them younger and younger. There is no regard anymore for human life. There has to be somewhere where we draw the line and say, 'Listen, our kids want to grow up, too.'"(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at ketknbc.com ...
Where is the heartfelt sympathy (and outrage) for the mothers who lost their sons in battle fighting for the right of these mothers’ sons to be stupid.
Mike Brown? Thug. No sympathy.
Eric Garner? Some sympathy.
Tamir Rice? Shot a 12 year old boy in 2 seconds? That ain’t right.
Travon? Thug punk. No sympathy,
John Crawford? Sympathy. Shot dead in a Walmart in an open carry state holding a BB gun he picked up off the shelf. Talking on a phone.
If Crawford was white we’d be talking about Jack Booted Thugs.
Has anyone investigated these mothers’ parenting skills and the kind of home life provided for their sons. Grandmas haven’t been making the impact they use to.
This is like an out of tune violin accompanying metal fingers scraping across a chalk board.
They would need a stadium for the white mothers of sons killed by black men and boys this year
Brown’s “mother” did not even care enough about him to raise him. His grandma raised him.
thug sons. the common thread. good boys don’t have criminal records. not by the rest of the country’s standards.
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Well, you guys said everything I would say already - except
LET the PARADE OF STUPID continue.
When you point your index finger at someone, you have three pointing back towards you. Shame on your boys for stealing, not obeying the police officer, and or being on illegal drugs.
Whether we like it or not there are concequencces for our behavior. Blaming someone else for your sons choices is easy and probably makes you feel better but it is God who holds you responsible for not training up a child in the way he should go.
This makes me sick. I just have no words for this. Its just so sad.
How do you mean?
Just the whole situation in general. Race relations in this country has been set back at least 20 years.
You be bad! LOL!
Hmmm....Don't complicate a good story!!
OUCH!...sometimes the obvious escapes us.....Good Post!
Another piece of Cooper Pooper. Time to cut the cable ties to KETK and ask advertisers on that NBC outlet why they’re supporting encouraging racial discord.
That said, the overall narrative being pushed by the Left and media (but I repeat myself), that Blacks in general are victims of racist violence in the USA is BS of the highest purity. Blacks are overwhelmingly the perpetrators of violence, against each other and against non-blacks. They kill at rate 8 times that of whites.
Great summary. Clumping Michael Brown and Trayvon Martine with genuine victims is a travesty.
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