Trayvon Martin’s Dad Adds Voice To Help Black Men, Boys (Congressional Hearing)

CBS Baltimore ^ | July 24, 2013

[Mr. K]

Teach them not to be outside casing houses for burglary, in the dark, in the rain.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Until black "men and boys" stop defining themselves as inferior beings who require special consideration, there is no hope for them.

[Travis McGee]

Policy is made by PC outliers, while the rotting carcass in the punch bowl is ignored.

[Mr. K]

teach them not to wear hoodies and other thug-wear

[MrB]

Marry their mamas before you have sex with them.

90% of the problem solved.

[Mr. K]

teach them to walk up and say “hello” to the neighborhood watch, rather than attack and break their nose

[Texas Eagle]

“The question is, what can we do as parents, what can we do as African-American men, to assure our kids that you don’t have to be afraid to walk outside your house?”

Uhhhhhh....how about you start by staying with the kid's baby momma and raise him together.

[P-Marlowe]

Let’s just pass a law that makes it a federal crime to use self defense when you are getting your head caved in on a sidewalk by a black man wearing a hoody.

That should do it.

[Texas Eagle]

A statute or amendment! Damn! Why didn't somebody think of that before!

All those wasted lives and all we needed was a statute or amendment.

I wonder if Trayon's "father" is confusing a statute with a statue.

[Paisan]

“a statute or amendment”

Yes, something that combines the names Trayvon Martin and Charles Darwin...

[dirtboy]

“The question is, what can we do as parents, what can we do as African-American men, to assure our kids that you don’t have to be afraid to walk outside your house?” Tracy Martin asked

How about being a better father?

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

“The question is, what can we do as parents, what can we do as African-American men, to assure our kids that you don’t have to be afraid to walk outside your house?”

This kid was too young to be afraid.

[SkiKnee]

You could try actually being a dad, rather than a “baby daddy”. That might be a good start.

[Uncle Chip]

Did he lie to Congress about the criminal path that his son was on — including wanting his gangbanger father to buy him a gun.

[miliantnutcase]

What a joke.

[yldstrk]

would an amendment that says standards and laws apply only to white people get it?

[cripplecreek]

As a rational black pastor told me. Men like Tracy Martin love their sons but not enough to be real fathers. They treat their sons like fighting dogs because of a twisted belief that making them tough and aggressive will keep them alive when the reality is that they never learn to walk away from confrontation.

[ZULU]

Advice from the jerk who blew fatherhood by not raising his kid to be a responsible human being instead of a nascient criminal.

I have had enough of this crap. This country is in serious trouble.

[upchuck]

Bump!