Posted on 03/23/2012 1:27:24 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
A group of Capitol Hill staffers gathered today on the U.S. Capitol steps to rally in support of Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old unarmed boy gunned down in Sanford, Fla.
About 250 to 300 aides rallied this afternoon in support of "Hoodies on the Hill." Participants were encouraged to wear hooded sweatshirts in the 80 degree heat and to bring bags Skittles candy and iced tea, two items Martin was carrying when he was killed by a 28-year-old man as he walked back to his father's girlfriend's house.
"We have a mandate to ensure that young boys like Trayvon live their lives and that they're successful and that they have the opportunity we have today," said Brandon Andrews, a congressional staffer who said he was representing African American men on the Hill.
Senate Chaplain Barry Black, a retired commander in the Navy, led the group in prayer, invoking Martin Luther King, Jr. and telling the crowd of his own experiences with racial stereotyping.
"I don't have my hoodie, but I do have my skittles," Black said, dressed characteristically in a white shirt and bowtie. "This is a great tragedy and I guess one of the positive aspects of this is it has awakened in so many, across all racial lines and awareness, that we need to do more to 'cause justice to roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.'"
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Wow a lot of folks are jumping the gun on this. Trevor could have been an innocent victim or he could have been an instigator and assaulted Zimmerman. How about the investigation go forward before everyone knee jerks.
Something tells me this is much to do about nothing! They think this can rally the left into hating the right, regardless of if this shooter never even voted for a GOP. I dispise the left!!!! They jump on anything regardless of what it is... in order to get a following. PLEASE! Silent Majority... VOTE VOTE VOTE!
/sarcasm off
“Participants were encouraged to wear hooded sweatshirts in the 80 degree heat and to bring bags Skittles candy and iced tea, two items Martin was carrying when he was killed by a 28-year-old man as he walked back to his father’s girlfriend’s house.”
They should also be encouraged to jump an armed guy so they can perhaps get the full experience.
Professional Agitator in the White Hut wants riots so nobody will notice just how bad he is screwing America!
I do not even recognize my country any more.
It must be the whiny season for blacks.
They must realize Obama is in trouble and this will help rally the base.
How did they or the administration react to Nidal Malik Hasan attack on the innocents? Just a little work place violence according to Obama/Holder..
The story is “getting legs!” America is being choreographed for riots by those who control the MSM.
It’s all about “black” folks.
When they and the other protesting groups go after the 49 shootings in Chicago last weekend, including the death of a young girl on her porch, the burning of a white guy by two blacks then I will start to listen, until then the racists can go pound sand and that includes Obama.
When are the ‘Hoodies on the Hill’ going to support Nancy Strait?
White 85 year old partially blind Nancy Strait was robbed, tortured, raped and beaten to death just the other day in Oklahoma by a gang of feral blacks.
Her 90 year old war veteran husband was beaten, his jaw broken, shot in the face numerous times with a BB gun and sent to the hospital in critical condition.
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While the Zimmerman ‘white’ on black killing is covered 24/7 on the MSM with an outpouring of rage and charges of a racial hate crime, where is the concern- where is the rage about the home invasion, torture, beating, rape and murder of the elderly white couple by ‘African Americans’ in Oklahoma just the other day?
WHY NO MENTION ON THE MSM??
WHY DOES IT TAKE THE BRITS TO BRING THIS NEWS TO US??
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There’s a lot more here than a home invasion and robbery.
WHERE ARE THE CHARGES OF A RACIAL HATE CRIME??
90 year old husband’s jaw broken and shot in face with BB gun?
85 wife year old semi blind wife RAPED and BEATEN to death??
Where is the 24/7 MSM coverage
Where is the outrage?
Just like the Nazis choreographed the German people to Kristallnacht.
“America is being choreographed for riots by those who control the MSM.”
The blacks in this country are primed and ready for full scale rioting. Many of them are simply seething with hatred for whites.
I would be cautions about being in black areas for the next few days.
so I can’t wear my favorite hooded carhartt sweatshirt because now its a political statement.
Exactly.
How many of the slain Chicago teenagers (hundreds since Obama took office) has Obama remembered?
I’m guessing somewhere around ZERO.
This guy’s racial exploitations are embarrassing.
Trevor could have been an innocent victim or he could have been an instigator and assaulted Zimmerman.
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Martin could have been an innocent victim or he could have been an instigator and assaulted George.
....Tired of the race-based name double standard.....
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