“When they say it takes a village to raise a child, this is what has happened here,” said Vereen.”
It takes a village to raise a kid when the Father isn’t around. Don’t know how to solve that problem. Maybe create a testicle bank and hold people’s gonads until they can prove they are adult enough to understand the consequences of misusing them.
Hopefully this young lady goes on to be a successful career person in her field of chosen endeavor, and judging by the obstacles she has already overcome, I am sure she will.
The real tragedy of Martin is no one seems to have come away with the right lessons.
Don’t play cop if you aren’t one. And don’t go acting like macho man when you don’t have any idea who you going to beat down. If either Martin or Zimmerman had simply called law enforcement instead of playing Dick Tracy or Tough guy, Martin would be alive today and Zimmerman would be a happier man.
When seconds count, police are only minutes away.
From the beginning of the incident, Mr. Zimmerman was on the phone with the local police dispatcher. Master Trayvon was on the phone with this individual.
Mr. Zimmerman was a member of his community's Neighborhood Watch program, a program started because of the neighbors and his concerns about recent break-ins and safety. He was not "playing cop" or Dick Tracy. He did, in fact, call law enforcement, and was trying to give the best information he could regarding the whereabouts of a suspicious-acting character he found loitering outside a neighbor's house in the rain on a chilly evening.