Posted on 07/20/2013 8:24:51 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Thousands of people filled Federal Plaza, participating in Chicago’s “Justice for Trayvon” vigil.
A series of speakers compared the death of the Florida teen, and the outrage in the African-American community over the acquittal of the neighborhood watch volunteer who shot him, to the 1955 murder of Chicago teenager Emmett Till, who was killed in Money, Miss., for whistling at a white woman.
Till’s killers were acquitted at trial, and then boasted about what they had done. The Till murder helped spark the modern civil rights movement.
Till’s cousin, Erica Gordon Taylor, said the verdict, in favor of neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, “ripped open” old wounds in Till’s extended family.
“When I heard the verdict, I said, ‘Wow. This is what this must have felt like 58 years ago,’” Taylor said.
Many others equated Till and Martin.
“We are obligated to bring Trayvon Martin justice because we are the city of Emmett Till,” said the Rev. Gregory Livingston, of the Mission of Faith Baptist Church, who said race relations today in many ways are “the same old mess.”
Livingston and other speakers urged those outraged over the verdict to register and vote, and to write the U.S. Dept. of Justice demanding an exhaustive civil rights investigation.
“It’s not good enough to just come here and remember Trayvon,” said the Rev. Michael Pfleger, senior pastor at St. Sabina Roman Catholic Church in the south side Auburn-Gresham neighborhood. “We must come here and make up our minds that the bullet that killed Trayvon woke us up, and we ain’t going back to sleep till justice flows down.”
The Rev. Jesse Jackson said that the only way for Chicagoans to make Florida lawmakers realize the follow of “stand your ground” laws is to invoke a meaningful boycott of Florida attractions.
“Steve Wonder will not perform. Sororities, fraternities, conventions, spring breaks. We must all boycott Florida and stop stand your ground laws,” he said. “No more conventions. No more concerts. No more parties. No more spring breaks. Stand your ground on Florida’s laws.”
The rally was one of around 100 coordinated by the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network, which were scheduled to take place simultaneously in cities across the country, most occurring outside of federal office buildings housing Justice Department offices.
Afterward, about 200 people marched over Adams Street and up Michigan Avenue to Millennium Park.
Florida will be a nice place to be next year...
None of those violent riotous weekends on the beaches...
the ones that cause the locals to get out of town
Justice is old school - da folks nowadays is new school - we mean social justice and dat mean nigas whoop ass on crackas - den we get pezzz
Only a couple hundred for the march? Say... Between this and the small Miami turnout and what seems to be a bunch of unremarkable rallies elsewhere... Maybe there’s some good news in all this. Maybe the race-baiters aren’t getting the foothold they hoped for?
So many racists with so much hate all in one place.
I actually find it hilarious that these people in Chicago want to scream, no justice, no peace. Really??? Come on - look at the number of killings that will take place in that hell hole this weekend alone.
Why aren’t they crying for justice in that war zone?
I believe what is happening could be described as “Suppose they gave a lynching and no one came?” I believe one of the hopes of the federal government was to try to exert pressure using this shooting to go after all states with “stand your ground” laws. I don’t believe it is working, and here are the two points I believe have been said enough to be heard but need more saying.
NO ONE with armed guards should be allowed to speak against stand your ground without the media exposing them each time they speak against it.
“Stand your ground” is one side and the other is “Retreat from evil.” The choice becomes clear which is right.
DK
As a side note, would police be required to retreat too?
In Ci-cago they know a lot about justice. Remember Operation Greylord? It gave us the immortal recorded statement of a Cook County judge: “Show me the f...ing money and I’ll show you justice.”
And since over 60% of them will be blacks murdering blacks they should make every effort to solve 100% of these crimes.
Trayvon Martin got the justice he wanted when he chose to live by the lawlessness of the Wild West. It is too bad that he had parents who could care less if he grew up uncivilized.
You would think Trayvon’s parents, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, would have heeded the red flag when he was suspended the first time from Krop Senior High School. Instead, he was suspended two more times. These were parents on their own agenda and could care less about their son.
Now these parents are seeking to profit from the death of their son and are letting the entire race-baiting industry do their bidding. My impression of Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin are lower than something one would scrape off the bottom of their shoe.
Craig Rivera just did a report on Chicago’s murders. A 6 year old was shot last night. Rivera a kid about 6 years old who said he was afraid. Damn, that was sad.
He interviewed a man who lost his son. He said it never got the attention. Rivera asked him why and he said “You know why. It’s race It’s black on black. If one had been white it would have been all over the news.”
Another guy said it’s bad about Trayvon but “it happens here every day.”
I understand. I ask God to “help me not to become what I don’t want to be.”
If we are lucky, there will be a minimum of lining up a few hundred or a few thousand Trayvons at the edge of a ditch and...
Ironic & fitting - Black thug capital
Apparently the father was asked yesterday at one of the rallies if it was true Trayvon assaulted a teacher and that was part of why he was suspended, and the father replied that he couldn’t say because he really didn’t know why Trayvon was suspended. That’s a good dad for you, eh?
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