Posted on 03/27/2012 8:39:54 AM PDT by BO Stinkss
As they say in the business, the optics of this are all wrong.
The Smoking Gun:
The mother of Trayvon Martin has filed two applications to secure trademarks containing her late son's name, records show.
Sybrina Fulton is seeking marks for the phrases "I Am Trayvon" and "Justice for Trayvon," according to filings made last week with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. In both instances, Fulton, 46, is seeking the trademarks for use on "Digital materials, namely, CDs and DVDs featuring Trayvon Martin," and other products.
The March 21 USPTO applications, each of which cost $325, were filed by an Orlando, Florida law firm representing Fulton, whose first name is spelled "Sabrina" in the trademark records.
Is this a grieving mother trying to protect the good name of her dead child by preventing hucksters and quick buck artists from capitalizing on the tragedy?
Or is this a conniving woman trying to make a buck off the murder of her kid?
I'll let you fight it out in the comments.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
He won’t have really made it into the vernacular until his name becomes a verb, though: “Don’t go out and get all Trayvonned tonight!”
An understandable reaction from a grieving, heartbroken mother........
“... lack a true entrepreneurial spirit”.
LOL!!
Casey Anthony must have thought, “Damn, why didn’t I think of that?”
I read Trayvon was 6’3 and weighed about 160, so we was young and not yet developed, but likely quick. Reads as though he was an accident looking for a place to happen. Fortunately it happened with somebody with more accolades than faults, so the story gets told.
I’m waiting on La Raza to press a class action suit against Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and all groups of racist blacks who have slandered the Latino and Hispanic image.
If the US ever falls, is taken over by the Communists, Chinese and Mexicans, it wouldn’t surprise me if they returned slavery and placed all such racists in chains. They’ve been given all the quotas, all the welfare, haven’t had to work their fair share, hate the family, God, and marriage, and fully expect everybody in society to fear their criminality by showering them with respect.
I’m surprised Mexican-American politicians don’t come out in full force against the liberal African American voice on this issue. A Mexican American candidate with Protestant and small business background could sweep the Presidential race.
There is a mystery of iniquity at work here, which I don’t understand, nor really seek. Those who clamour to defend Trayvon seek to glorify criminality.
his “moms” named him Trayvon......all we need to know.
This is funny. The moderator removed MY post because I used Martin’s twitter name “No_LIMIT_NI***”. This is what he called himself. I didn’t make it up.
Would it help Mr. Moderator if you knew that I am black? Don’t you know that I’m allowed to use the “N” word?
PC overkill. =(
That is interesting. I posted this earlier and as far as I know, it is still there.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2864148/posts?page=94#94
Nevertheless...NLN with a little trademark symbol will get the job done.
Racism....strange stuff. Wouldn’t it be ironic if someone made a t-shirt that said, “NLN(trademark)—capitalism at work.”
“Was “TACK_E” already taken?”
ROFL!!!
“I Am Trayvon” and “Justice for Trayvon,”
If one were going to trademark certain phrases for their son, I would think many other phrases would come to the mind of a virtuous person.
Technically justice has already been dealt to Trayvon.
If the concern is over the taking of human life, then the crime is either against God, since He is the one person who gave the life to Trayvon, or it is against the State as it violates criminal law of the State.
In the case of self-defense, justice for Zimmerman would demand all such benefits to the family of Martin be recompensed too Zimmerman and/or the State as they are procured consequent to his criminal actions.
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