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Trayvon Martin's father named honorary captain of FAMU football team
The Orlando Sentinel ^
| August 12, 2013
| Chris Hays
Posted on 08/12/2013 3:27:09 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
TALLAHASSEE — Trayvon Martin’s father has been named honorary captain of the FAMU football team after delivering an inspirational speech to the team Sunday.
Florida A&M coach Earl Holmes said Tracy Martin, whose son’s shooting death in Sanford drew national attention, called him recently and the coach recently invited the grieving father to address his players.
“[We] talked and I told him I’d love him to talk to the team. He came out and he was very, very encouraging,” Holmes said of Tracy Martin. “ . . . [He] got a standing ovation from our guys.
He talked about just persevering and told the guys to keep on pushing through the hard times. The message he shared with the kids was very positive and they were very responsive.”
Since George Zimmerman was acquitted of second-degree murder and manslaughter charges in connection with Trayvon Martin’s death in Sanford, his parents have been seeking support for the Trayvon Martin Foundation.
Holmes said Tracy Martin will be an honorary captain for the Rattlers this season. Martin is scheduled to be on the field and do the pregame coin toss when FAMU plays it season opener against Mississippi Valley State...
“He had some inspiring words and the guys played off of that,” Holmes said. “And we’re going to keep pushing for him and his foundation. He’ll be an honorary captain for us this year and he’s welcome any time.
“I think what he’s doing with the foundation is big and it speaks volumes and I want the football team and FAMU Nation to be part of that”
The purpose of the foundation ... is to create awareness about how violent crime impacts the families of the victims and to provide support for those families.......
(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: trayvonmartin; zimmerman
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They first offered him the position of honorary drum major of the marching band --
To: Uncle Chip
Travon gets a libary named after him,the gang banger father gets whatever this crap is....WOW are we a F’ed up society or what
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posted on
08/12/2013 3:28:49 PM PDT
by
t1b8zs
To: Uncle Chip
was the waterboy position filled?
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posted on
08/12/2013 3:29:11 PM PDT
by
max americana
(fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
To: Uncle Chip
Let’s GO Bethune-Cookman Wildcats!
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posted on
08/12/2013 3:30:04 PM PDT
by
The KG9 Kid
(Demand Common Sense Nut Control.)
To: t1b8zs
That makes sense. Our library in the mornings is filled with homeless black bums who yell at the other patrons for disturbing their free internet.
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posted on
08/12/2013 3:30:13 PM PDT
by
max americana
(fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
To: Uncle Chip
“honorary captain for the Rattlers “
I think it is better fitting that he become an honorary captain for The Crips =)
To: Uncle Chip
They first offered him the position of honorary drum major of the marching band -- Ouch! Wickedly apropos.
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posted on
08/12/2013 3:30:36 PM PDT
by
NautiNurse
(That is retarted, Sir.)
To: Uncle Chip
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.I say check him for stolen jewelry as often as possible.
To: Uncle Chip
If one of my kids ever dies, and I go into this mode, I hope someone beats some sense into me.
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posted on
08/12/2013 3:31:14 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(This post coming to you today, from behind the Camelskin Curtain. Not the Iron or Bamboo Curtain...)
To: Uncle Chip
These grifters finally found a lucrative use for their thug son.
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posted on
08/12/2013 3:33:07 PM PDT
by
hattend
(Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
To: Uncle Chip
Cindy Sheehan was a cancer on the news pages for what, four or five years? TrayMom and Traydad will certainly plague us for longer than that.
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posted on
08/12/2013 3:34:19 PM PDT
by
jiggyboy
(Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
To: Uncle Chip
The gay band major was beaten to death in a hazing incident a couple years ago at this school.Criminal charges were filed. The School had its band program suspended
Freegards
LEX
To: Uncle Chip
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posted on
08/12/2013 3:35:39 PM PDT
by
maggief
To: t1b8zs
See if you can find the white guy:
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posted on
08/12/2013 3:35:45 PM PDT
by
maddog55
(America Rising.... Civil War II)
To: Uncle Chip
Isn’t thhat the African American school where a marching band Hazing ritua actually beat a band member to death? If si, I would say that this is a fitting honor!
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posted on
08/12/2013 3:36:11 PM PDT
by
pastorbillrandles
(, but you are right about the mood, tense)
To: t1b8zs
Now, Now, You are talking about a future pResidential candidate./S
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posted on
08/12/2013 3:37:18 PM PDT
by
mongo141
(Revolution ver. 2.0, just a matter of when, not a matter of if!)
To: lexington minuteman 1775
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posted on
08/12/2013 3:38:30 PM PDT
by
LibLieSlayer
(FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet; Uncle Chip
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posted on
08/12/2013 3:38:55 PM PDT
by
onyx
(Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
To: Uncle Chip
It’s a shame that they did not concentrate as much time and energy in their son as they have in being celebrity victims.
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posted on
08/12/2013 3:39:15 PM PDT
by
MWestMom
(Psalms 109:8)
To: Uncle Chip
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posted on
08/12/2013 3:40:38 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(Mille vocibus imago valet;-{)
To: Uncle Chip
To: Uncle Chip
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posted on
08/12/2013 3:52:01 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(I aim to raise a million plus for Gov. Palin. What'll you do?.)
To: t1b8zs
Yup, we as a society have gone into the shitter.
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posted on
08/12/2013 3:52:14 PM PDT
by
ought-six
( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
The purpose of the foundation according to its website is to create awareness about how violent crime impacts the families of the victims perpetrators of violent crime
and to provide support grift
for those families. There fixed it.
To: t1b8zs; Uncle Chip; onyx; max americana; Patriot Babe; NautiNurse; Gay State Conservative; ...
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posted on
08/12/2013 3:58:41 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(I aim to raise a million plus for Gov. Palin. What'll you do?.)
To: SoFloFreeper
NO! We are NOT all Trayvon.
We don't steal jewelry, get expelled from school, assault bus drivers, skulk around neighborhoods looking into windows of homes that don't belong to us, don't post pics on Facebook flipping off the camera.
Trayvon was who he is and represented a certain culture ...... which is not a whole bunch of us.
So shut the F up.
To: Uncle Chip
whats next a new name? the Florida A+M SKITTLES??
No_Limit_Skittles?
this clowns 15 minutes....was over WEEKS AGO!!
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posted on
08/12/2013 4:07:23 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
(This Message NOT Approved By The N.S.A.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
08/12/2013 4:08:38 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(Mille vocibus imago valet;-{)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
08/12/2013 4:08:43 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
(This Message NOT Approved By The N.S.A.)
To: Uncle Chip
The sad thing about all this is if Trayvon’s parents had paid as much attention to him while he was alive as they are now that he’s dead, we wouldn’t be having this conversation.
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posted on
08/12/2013 4:12:15 PM PDT
by
Rebelbase
(Tagline: (optional, printed after your name on post))
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Fulton, who testified committed perjury
in the case against Zimmerman, is interning at the Democratic congresswoman’s office in Miami GardensThere fixed it.
To: JoeProBono
To: Uncle Chip
Perhaps Treyvon could receive the Nobel Peace Prize posthumously. Hey, he has a better claim to it that than his father ubama.
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posted on
08/12/2013 4:27:45 PM PDT
by
rhinohunter
(Freepers aren't booing -- they're shouting "Cruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuz")
To: Uncle Chip
Society as we know it is doomed.
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posted on
08/12/2013 4:31:14 PM PDT
by
Baynative
(Lord, keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.)
To: JoeProBono
I received the one with Trayvon’s parents on it in the mail,” said the Macon, Georgia, native.
“But I’m going to buy all the covers because that’s why I read Ebony.“
Ebony.. steered clear
of Sharptongue and Jacksome!...but I couldnt resist featuring the Just Us Brothers!
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posted on
08/12/2013 4:41:08 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
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To: MeshugeMikey
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posted on
08/12/2013 4:43:18 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(Mille vocibus imago valet;-{)
To: Uncle Chip
Florida A&M has disgraced itself!
All the players (mostly out of state thugs) should wear hoodies to commemorate this historic event.
Face it, clowns, Trayvon Martin was a juvenile delinquent with a chip on his shoulder who thought he could beat George to death until that gun appeared!
Arm yourselves, America. The thugs are coming for you!
And lastly: to hell with Florida A&M. I’d rather have a sister in a whorehouse than a brother at A&M!
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posted on
08/12/2013 4:50:18 PM PDT
by
IbJensen
(Liberals are like Slinkies, good for nothing, but you smile as you push them down the stairs.)
To: JoeProBono
FIVE COVERS of one magazine.... to PIMP some poor unfortunate thug?
these people know NO SHAME!!
they gettin they Trayvon Rave On....../
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posted on
08/12/2013 4:54:22 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
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To: IbJensen
At one time, Florida A&M had one of the great coaches in Jake Gaither. He came out with almost as many funny expressions as Yogi Berra.
I once did a report on him and he was surprisingly well credentialed. He probably would not make it now as he believed in segregation. He thought the Black kids did better in segregated schools.
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posted on
08/12/2013 4:57:13 PM PDT
by
yarddog
(Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
To: Uncle Chip
Goodbye Gatorade. Hello Purple Drank!
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posted on
08/12/2013 5:17:02 PM PDT
by
peyton randolph
(Tagline copyright in violation of Directive 10-289)
To: Uncle Chip
Florida Ag and Military? Do they call them “Faggies?”
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posted on
08/12/2013 5:25:13 PM PDT
by
Cyber Liberty
(Justice for Trayvon: Dig up his body and shoot him again.)
To: Uncle Chip
I hope he does better at being an honorary captain than he did at raising his son.
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posted on
08/12/2013 5:38:49 PM PDT
by
basil
(2ASisters.org)
To: Uncle Chip
It’s good to be a celebrity!
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posted on
08/12/2013 5:59:55 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Senator Foghorn says, You should never resist being raped, robbed, beat down or murdered.)
To: Uncle Chip
Saw this reply in the comment section to someone who said he would donate to FAMU:
FAMU is a "historically Black college" which means their most wealthy alumni use there EBT cards to donate and white liberals give due to their white guilt mindset. In other words, won't increase donations but they won't lose anything either
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posted on
08/12/2013 7:20:14 PM PDT
by
Larry381
("Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.")
To: All
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posted on
08/12/2013 7:26:08 PM PDT
by
musicman
(Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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