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Trayvon Martin rally: 'We must move from stand your ground to common ground'
atlantamagazine.com ^ | July 20, 2013 | Rebecca Burns

Posted on 07/20/2013 9:44:43 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe

Neither Kathy Sanders nor her son, Rico, had ever attended a political rally before, but they joined thousands of people in downtown Atlanta Saturday afternoon to pay tribute to Trayvon Martin and call for an end to racial profiling.

“Showing this kind of togetherness, maybe we can make a change,” said Kathy, a College Park resident and U.S. Postal Service clerk.

Rico Sanders, home for the summer from Jacksonville State where he’s a senior and a shooting guard on the basketball team, was selling T-shirts; five dollars of each sold would be donated to the Trayvon Martin Foundation, he said.

For Dionna Smith, a U.S. Navy veteran standing several yards away, this also marked a first political rally. Smith, who held a sign stating "I am Trayvon Martin," said that she’d participated in parades and marches as a veteran, but never marched for a cause like this. Smith said she was “shocked” last week when George Zimmerman was found not guilty in Martin’s death, but added that whatever the trial’s outcome, Zimmerman will “never walk the earth as a free man; the guilt of shooting Trayvon Martin will stay on his conscience.”

Rally attendees chanted, sang along as gospel star Jennifer Holliday belted out “We Shall Overcome,” and listened to speaker after speaker and prayer after prayer—despite the heavy rain that started shortly after the rally began and fell steadily for more almost an hour. The block between the Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Building and Richard B. Russell Federal Center was a sea of umbrellas; those who had worn hoodies out of solidarity with Martin pulled up their hoods as the rain continued.

Martin Luther King III and his sister, Bernice, made a joint appearance as the rally headed into its second hour. Martin III reminded the crowd about the upcoming fiftieth anniversary of his father’s famous “Dream” speech, and its less-famous call for the government to make good on the “bad check” issued to its black citizens. “The check still has not been cashed,” said King’s son, adding that he had just come from an NAACP conference at which there had been discussion of “not consuming certain things, like orange juice, from Florida.”

Bernice King said Martin’s death was a “wake up call” to continue to fight for justice. “In many regards, we have fallen asleep,” she said. “God woke us up just in time.”

Reverend Raphael Warnock, pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church where the Kings’ father and grandfather both preached, noted the hoodies among the crowd. “What’s so frightening about a black man in a hoodie in the rain?”he asked. On the other hand, he noted, “We have plenty of data to be worried when we see other folk moving through our neighborhood wearing hoods.”

Warnock called for stricter gun control laws. “We must move from stand your ground to common ground to common sense,” he said.


TOPICS: US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: banglist; blackrage; guncontrol; holder; secondamendment
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To: Steve_Seattle

What does he have to say about pound and ground?


41 posted on 07/20/2013 11:58:40 PM PDT by Catsrus (`)
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To: vpintheak
I trust, but verify

That's worked out so well in everything...

42 posted on 07/21/2013 12:12:07 AM PDT by wastedyears (One nation, under wub. Saints Row IV)
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To: wastedyears

From the pics, another small turnout. Epic fail rallies everywhere across the country.


43 posted on 07/21/2013 1:40:57 AM PDT by flaglady47 (When the gov't fears the people, liberty; When the people fear the gov't, tyranny.)
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To: flaglady47

If blacks want “common ground” and “respect”, EARN IT, DAMN IT!


44 posted on 07/21/2013 2:29:05 AM PDT by DaveA37 (I'm for SMALLER , HONEST government)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

SOLUTION?

HERD ALL THE P TESTERS INTO TOWN THEATERS LOCK THE DOORS AND

NOBODY COMES OUT UNTIL WATCHING THIS IN ITS ENTIRETY WATCH

THIS!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebu6Yvzs4Ls#at=606


45 posted on 07/21/2013 3:12:27 AM PDT by jimsin
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Why are all the blacks mad about SYG? Could it be because they are worried about Whitey being able to defend himself?
Or because they are admitting that they are all criminals.
They just profiled themselves......


46 posted on 07/21/2013 3:13:52 AM PDT by Yorlik803 (better to die on your feet than live on your knees.)
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To: flaglady47
Epic fail rallies everywhere across the country.

I was wondering if the 'thousands' reported here were like the 'hundreds' reported elsewhere.

However if the thug culture can't tell the difference between self-defense and stand-your-ground, we really shouldn't be surprised that their math is no better than their English comprehension.

47 posted on 07/21/2013 4:15:00 AM PDT by MamaTexan (I am a Person as defined by the Law of Nature, not a 'person' as defined by the laws of Man)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

I wonder if they would change their minds if someone walked up to them, spit in their face, then slapped them a time or two - all while telling themselves that they, the victim, were supposed to retreat before trying to defend themselves. Give them a gun loaded with blanks and see how they react. (I know blanks can be deadly - maybe “duds” would be better).


48 posted on 07/21/2013 4:18:24 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

common ground for them is your house


49 posted on 07/21/2013 4:43:07 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Stand your ground is common ground. What the thuggish among us would love is “drop and cower” as an acceptable defense. It’s a lot easier to rape, pillage, pummel, and plunder when the victim doesn’t shoot back.


50 posted on 07/21/2013 4:44:48 AM PDT by meyer (What would John Hancock do?)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
this is amazing. he's (obama) already got mama martin hooting about "gun control".

he's sort of an evil Midas. he wades in and takes all the potential energy and hatred and directs it for his purposes.

51 posted on 07/21/2013 5:19:35 AM PDT by farsny
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Sorry, I have no common with a bunch of whining thugs.


52 posted on 07/21/2013 6:05:28 AM PDT by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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To: GenXteacher

D**n. Common ground, that is....


53 posted on 07/21/2013 6:06:09 AM PDT by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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To: Steve_Seattle

“Warnock called for stricter gun control laws. “We must move from stand your ground to common ground to common sense,” he said.”


And with that logic more of the law abiding will wind up “ in the ground”
as the criminals take advantage of no ability to “ defend ourselves”


54 posted on 07/21/2013 6:15:29 AM PDT by patriotspride
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To: MeshugeMikey

Martin’s mother stifled sobs as she told the crowd: “Not only I vow to do what I have to do for Trayvon Martin, I promise I’m going to work hard for your children as well.”


And “ Don’t you ask me about why I was around him for 14 years “


55 posted on 07/21/2013 6:16:44 AM PDT by patriotspride
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Common ground? I have no common ground with those who support black thugs and mobs assaulting and killing white people.


56 posted on 07/21/2013 6:18:31 AM PDT by rcofdayton (.)
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To: lapsus calami

The routine is, as always, follow the money. No honor among thieves and a lot of characters are looking to milk the situation for steady paychecks. Just like the Sandy Hook incident, it was no time before leftist-oriented “funds” were set up to take in money. Last I heard there’s already been in-fighting over it.


And in that regard the following article is particularly helpful. Long read but worth it.

http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2013/07/14/a-nation-of-george-zimmermans-awakened-understand-the-fraud-post-verdict-of-acquittal/


57 posted on 07/21/2013 6:21:27 AM PDT by patriotspride
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Acclimate to society, stop being a thug and get a job.

How's that for common ground?

Until then, just got a great deal on ammo. Starting to see some hit the market more frequently.

58 posted on 07/21/2013 6:24:56 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: AmericanVictory

” A real teachable moment!!”

No,a real profitable moment!!


59 posted on 07/21/2013 6:39:15 AM PDT by depenzz ("My tastes are simple. I'm always satisfied by the best" WC)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

We live in Realville... the land where reality rules and crime reports state that blacks are the most violent race in America. Right in this thread... I have read a report that in NYC 90% of the murders are committed by blacks... mostly upon other blacks. kirsten “commie” powers said yesterday that whitey only talks about black on black crime to attack the black community. kirsten lives in the ivory tower of Medialand and she has no idea that this subject has been talked about for decades... especially amongst Conservatives of all colors. IT IS THE LEFT THAT REFUSES TO ACKNOWLEDGE BLACK VIOLENCE! WE Conservatives of all flavors seem to be the only Americans that actually care about the murder of these urban blacks.

Pray for America... through GOD the impossible can become reality.


60 posted on 07/21/2013 7:02:43 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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