Life Cycles of Inequity: A Colorlines Series on Black Men

Colorlines ^ | May 12, 2014 | Kai Wright, editor-at-large

[Dagnabitt]

Plantation slavery: Worst. Idea. Ever.

[jmacusa]

This guy looks like an African American Alfred E. Newman. He’s even got the space between his teeth.

[Elsiejay]

“He was found with stolen goods and burglary tools in his school backpack . . ..”

The Miami-Dade School District had its own in-house police dept., and the relevant administrators/officers decided that student offenses that could by law be deemed felonies would be dealt with administratively in-house, and not be referred to municipal police officials.
The school officials chose to deal with Trayvon’s two offenses (I believe he also had drugs or drug paraphernalia in his backpack) by suspending him, whereupon his father and mother, who resided in that district, sent him to Sanford to live with Dad’s girl friend.

[Milton Miteybad]

Uh...Mr. Wright...has it ever occurred to you that young black men victimize themselves by failing to take advantage of the educational opportunities made available to them, courtesy of the taxpayer, and further, engaging in criminal activity against said taxpayers?

No? Somehow I am not surprised at your answer.

[HiTech RedNeck]

maybe killing them off was the best way to get democrat votes out of them?

[HiTech RedNeck]

When they damn America and then find that they have damned themselves too, they shouldn’t be very surprised!

[Little Pig]

"...At 17, Trayvon’s opportunities were already shrinking, inequity had begun closing in around him..."

Drinking "Lean" and robbing people's houses will tend to have that effect, Kai.

[xrmusn]

Keith Ellison is the moonbat Islamicist Congressman from Minnesota.
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Of course you are correct.
I even ‘looked it up’....saw the name Keith on one of the blurbs, the name ellison came to mind, I clicked to ‘verify’ and had Post in my query so apparently a mention etc...
When I typed it in I wasn’t sure BUT...since I had ‘looked it up’.....

NO EXCUSES, just a plausible explanation....

Thanks

[jmacusa]

True dat rockrr. So at the tender age of 17 our little ‘’Willy Loman’’ here (Trayvon) is all washed up .No hope,no chance , in the greatest country on earth no sunshine on the horizon of life.Mmmm. ‘’ I cain’t get nothing from nobody cuz dey cain’t get everything from nobody to give to me ‘cuz it’s all whitey’s fault anyway ‘cuz it’s raciss’. Boy, talk about somebody dead from the neck up. This author I mean. How come the ‘’inequity’s’’of life didn’t stop him? Not to sound too harsh here or quais-racist but deserved what he got. Instead he thought a better plan for his life would to sit on his ass , steal , beat people up and break into houses. Again, I don’t mean to be insensitive here but the tragic irony in all of this, given his short, violently criminal life it ran him over bit his butt. Instant karma is a bi!tch.

[Secret Agent Man]

trayvon WAS a thug. end of discussion.

[marron]

Not one word about the collapse of the black family, and the corresponding moral collapse in the black community.

Which leads slightly the collapse of the family in the culture at large and the collapse of morality in the broader society.

Poverty and crime each have a direct tie to broken and shattered families, and to substance abuse, and those two are themselves closely related. These are moral issues and while they can be treated by social institutions, they can never be solved by anything other than a moral revival. The country as a whole is desperately in need of it and the black community even more so.

[sunrise_sunset]

You think you’re seeing a representative sample from Africa ?

Africans who make it here are from the elite or exceptionally talented and educated. ergo, Obama’s dad.

You live in a dusty village in Africa (or SE Asia) you ain’t going to make it through immigration and the self-sufficiency requirements.

[Gene Eric]

What’s the point of displaying the author’s appearance? Why spoil the mystery?

[driftless2]

I wonder how many older, white libs who have been allied with people like Wright for decades protesting evil, racist whitey are ready to throw in the towel? They have to know why black males fail at such high rates. Black males are always at the bottom for scholastic achievement, highest for criminal activity, and highest for having the worst attitudes towards life and work. But still the drumbeat goes on about evil whitey keeping black people down.

If you're a white businessman or woman, are you going to hire somebody of whatever color with no education, a criminal record, and a thoroughly sh...y attitude? That's a great many young blacks. I mean, how many black people even believe people like Wright anymore? Is the level of self-delusion that high among black Americans?

[556x45]

So, why not forward that to him? After all he did invite you to give input. Posting here isn’t going to help a bit....I doubt anyone would substantively disagree w/ your points.

[texas booster]

You had me confused there for just a bit.

And to those that care, I am just a generation removed from living really rural.