Posted on 07/25/2013 6:22:17 AM PDT by NotYourAverageDhimmi
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trayvon Martin’s father told a crowded Capitol Hill forum on Wednesday that “a statute or amendment” safeguarding young people against the type of circumstances that resulted in his son’s death would be a fitting legacy for his son.
“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 during a forum convened by the Congressional Caucus on Black Men and Boys, one of several such caucuses comprised of House members who want to seek possible legislative responses on various issues.
Martin said he is dedicated to ensuring that depictions during the trial of George Zimmerman, the man who shot Trayvon dead but was acquitted, do not define his 17-year-old son. Trayvon was his hero, Martin said, and “to not be there in his time of need is real troublesome, not to be able to save my son’s life.”
Martin’s comments opened what was billed as the first gathering of the caucus, which was formed to focus attention on issues disproportionately affecting black men and boys, such as joblessness and racial profiling.
“I would like to see Trayvon Martin’s name attached to a statute or amendment that says you can’t just profile our children, shoot them … and say you were defending yourself,” Tracy Martin told the lawmakers and the standing-room-only crowd....
Former NAACP President Kweisi Mfume cited the cases of Emmitt Till, a 14-year-old boy killed in Mississippi in 1955, and Rodney King, whose 1991 beating by Los Angeles police was captured on video, as examples of a sad, cyclical history that have had an impact on black men and boys.
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Oh, it's okay. He understood that your relationship with your girlfriend was the most important thing to you ... just like he understood, when you and his mother separated, that each of you had to think about what was best for themselves.
No, but seriously, I hope it eats at your vitals until you understand that you ignored your responsibilities until "your hero" grew into the kind of person someone has to shoot in self defense. I hope you never get another comfortable night's sleep again.
He did a fine job the first time. </sarc>
Well, Martin’s parents are really raking it in using their son’s death....when he was alive they didn’t care one wit.
Crippin’ All The Time. Keepin’ it real, yo.
aka “Fruit”?
I'm going to go wayyyyyyyyyyy out on a limb and say none.
Who you calling boy..............
Until there is LEARDSHIP that is NOT AFRAID to say to those of color that WE NEED to clean up are act up, things are not going to change.
This moron is from Africa???
This was it? This is what the Congressional Black Caucus and black scholars could come up with to curb massive black youth violence and criminality, to curb nearly three-quarters of black boys being raised in a home without a dad, and to curb the ghetto culture that has so many black boys dropping out of school and never desiring to be part of the mainstream. This complete lack of introspection is so sad and so pathetic. This community will continue to be a lost cause if they continue to refuse to look inward.
Guy is so stupid he doesn’t know what the word hero means.
Mammas don’t let your babies grow up to be thugs.
....”you don’t have to be afraid to walk outside your house”
Can someone please correct me if I am wrong, but how far from his home was Martin, and how did he get there?
Instead of being at the house making sure the little angel stayed grounded, he was out with the girlfriend. When he came home and went to bed, it didn't concern him that the little angel hadn't been home for hours and his whereabouts were unknown. That sort of parenting is real troublesome.
Schoolhouse Earth seems to be a "weed out" school, like one of those ultra tough med or engineering schools that tries to weed out those who can't or won't keep up by giving them a demanding Freshman curriculum, that also prepares them for grad school.
If you want to, if you can figure out the curriculum, you'll pass and you go on to your future.
If not? Well...from what I've read, you don't want to go there.
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