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Four mothers share pain of losing sons
KETK-TV / CNN ^ | December 14, 2014

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 ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blackmales; ericgarner; ferguson; michaelbrown; trayvon
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.


21 posted on 12/14/2014 7:18:00 PM PST by Maudeen
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.


22 posted on 12/14/2014 7:18:59 PM PST by Bodleian_Girl
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To: Dallas59

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.


23 posted on 12/14/2014 7:21:10 PM PST by Maudeen
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To: Dallas59

This is like an out of tune violin accompanying metal fingers scraping across a chalk board.


24 posted on 12/14/2014 7:25:55 PM PST by tinyowl (A equals A)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They would need a stadium for the white mothers of sons killed by black men and boys this year


25 posted on 12/14/2014 7:30:54 PM PST by MNDude
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Brown’s “mother” did not even care enough about him to raise him. His grandma raised him.


26 posted on 12/14/2014 7:31:10 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

thug sons. the common thread. good boys don’t have criminal records. not by the rest of the country’s standards.


27 posted on 12/14/2014 7:32:05 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: rabidralph
"sign"

photoshopped

28 posted on 12/14/2014 7:38:11 PM PST by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well, you guys said everything I would say already - except

LET the PARADE OF STUPID continue.


29 posted on 12/14/2014 7:38:39 PM PST by Gasshog (DemoKKKrats: Leaders of the Free Stuff World)
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To: Dallas59

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.


30 posted on 12/14/2014 7:52:10 PM PST by Ramonne
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This makes me sick. I just have no words for this. Its just so sad.


31 posted on 12/14/2014 8:32:47 PM PST by waxer1 (A Republic if you can keep it--Benjamin Franklin. Well we lost it.)
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To: waxer1

How do you mean?


32 posted on 12/14/2014 8:34:49 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Just the whole situation in general. Race relations in this country has been set back at least 20 years.


33 posted on 12/14/2014 8:37:25 PM PST by waxer1 (A Republic if you can keep it--Benjamin Franklin. Well we lost it.)
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To: PLMerite

You be bad! LOL!


34 posted on 12/14/2014 8:41:26 PM PST by TaMoDee (Go Pack Go! The Pack is back in 2014!)
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To: TaMoDee
When are the FATHERS going to appear on CNN? <<

Hmmm....Don't complicate a good story!!

35 posted on 12/14/2014 8:43:24 PM PST by M-cubed
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To: MNDude
They would need a stadium for the white mothers of sons killed by black men and boys this year <<<

OUCH!...sometimes the obvious escapes us.....Good Post!

36 posted on 12/14/2014 8:55:42 PM PST by M-cubed
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To: Dallas59; All

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.


37 posted on 12/14/2014 10:34:46 PM PST by mosesdapoet (Serious contribution pause.Please continue onto meaningless venting no one reads.)
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To: Bodleian_Girl
Good post. These cases are not all cops vs thugs-committing-crimes. The Rice and Crawford cases appear to be cops shooting first, thinking second.

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.

38 posted on 12/14/2014 10:51:46 PM PST by Dagnabitt (Amnesty is Treason. Its agents and supporters are Traitors.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

39 posted on 12/15/2014 3:10:37 AM PST by Bon mots (American Exceptionalism becomes American Acceptionalism under this regime... :()
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To: Bodleian_Girl

Great summary. Clumping Michael Brown and Trayvon Martine with genuine victims is a travesty.


40 posted on 12/15/2014 4:02:44 AM PST by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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