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Op-Ed: On Trayvon Martin's birthday, we remember his life and why we fight for black lives
NBC "News" ^ | February 5, 2018 | by Patrisse Cullors

Posted on 02/06/2018 6:12:12 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Chip on his shoulder too.

A party with chip on its shoulder earns an opposition party president right glad to knock said chip off.


41 posted on 02/06/2018 6:40:27 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Donald oughtta tweet at this one.


42 posted on 02/06/2018 6:41:42 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Trayvon Martin was a teenage boy literally walking in his own neighborhood doing what most teenagers do: Wearing a hoodie, buying snacks and talking on his cell phone.

...

And pounding whitey’s head into the concrete.

I hold NBC accountable for publishing this garbage.


43 posted on 02/06/2018 6:43:11 AM PST by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Mom MD

Yes, but no one else can, and this is now, not in trayvon’s year. It is sad, but it also points out how disgustingly corrupt the old media really is. Do you know who Michael Brown is? See my tag line.


44 posted on 02/06/2018 6:46:39 AM PST by Neoliberalnot (MSM is our greatest threat. Disney, Comcast, Google Hollywood, NYTimes, WaPo, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC ...)
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To: jiggyboy

How many points for noticing the author’s first name “Patrisse” and not even bothering to click the posted article?


45 posted on 02/06/2018 6:47:53 AM PST by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

She can’t even get her facts straight..

“Trayvon Martin was a teenage boy literally walking in his own neighborhood doing what most teenagers do”

Martin did not live in the neighborhood where he was shot, Martin’s father’s girlfriend lived there and he was visiting her.

“His family and Trayvon would not know that his life would end that night because a white vigilante would be empowered by his own racist beliefs and murder a 17-year-old boy in cold blood.”

Zimmerman was not “white”, he’s Hispanic. He didn’t murder Martin in cold blood, he shot an individual who had attacked him and injured his face. Zimmerman was having his head repeatedly slammed onto the concrete sidewalk.

“We organize marches, disrupt major highways, set up tent cities at police headquarters and charge the stages of elected officials in honor of Trayvon and others we have lost unnecessarily and too soon. We build electoral justice tables and develop movements that can develop new political leaders. We are working to do everything in our power to save America and defend our humanity.”

They disrupt the lives of regular working Americans and cheer on cop killers.

“This is what Trayvon represents, and so much more. We pray and we organize, so that his life and the lives of other Black people have not been taken in vain.”

Martin’s death was simply his future occurring earlier than normal. He was well on his to a life of crime, as the “no limit nigga” he claimed to be. If it weren’t Zimmerman, it would have been the cops or another hood rat that took his life. Had that happened, his black life wouldn’t have mattered.


46 posted on 02/06/2018 6:48:55 AM PST by TallahasseeConservative ( Isaiah 40:31)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
This has gotta be a the coverup legend for the real author John Semmens, right? < /sarc >

The article should have been registered as "Semi-Satire," eh?

47 posted on 02/06/2018 6:49:24 AM PST by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: ConservativeWarrior

That’s a problem in itself. People do have choices to transcend their circumstances. Isn’t that a basic conservative tenet? Or did it get ceded to liberals?


48 posted on 02/06/2018 6:50:23 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: Altura Ct.
The Thug Life!

Yeap! Martin was a thug out looking for trouble. He was so full of himself, he was not about letting some citizen fool slow him down.

The trouble with the BLM types is not understanding that we all want to lift the level of our culture, not encourage certain ones to drag us all down to their thugish level.

49 posted on 02/06/2018 6:51:28 AM PST by Dustoff45 ( Success / Love God, Israel and the unborn child.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

She could not have gotten a normal job, but her hatred for Whitey got her a job in which she can put her hatred into practice.


50 posted on 02/06/2018 6:55:50 AM PST by I want the USA back (Patriarchal binary all original-equipment breeder and White-privileged crusader.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

White supremacist vigilante justice? So a guy named Zimmerman who is half white an half hispanic and is getting his head pounded on sidewalk by a thug is a white supremacist because he has a gun and shoots to protect his life an limb? I tell ya what Ms Journalist anybody pounding my head on sidewalk will get hit with whatever I can get a hold of an that is called “survival instinct” its a human nature.


51 posted on 02/06/2018 6:57:06 AM PST by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Also:

Patrisse Cullors is an African-American artist an advocate for prison abolition in Los Angeles and co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement. She also identifies as a “queer activist”.

Wikipedia


52 posted on 02/06/2018 6:58:20 AM PST by V_TWIN (oks like)
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To: Dustoff45

If his school had called. The police he’d be alive today


53 posted on 02/06/2018 7:01:30 AM PST by morphing libertarian (Build Kate's Wall)
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To: lexington minuteman 1775

White Supremacist=Anyone winning an argument with a minority, Anyone not willing to sit idly by and watch historical monuments be torn down, Anyone who doesn’t “recognize their privilege”, Anyone who points out the problems in the African American community are the fault of that community and that community alone.


54 posted on 02/06/2018 7:03:19 AM PST by TallahasseeConservative ( Isaiah 40:31)
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To: RightGeek

All dumb ass whiteys.


55 posted on 02/06/2018 7:04:07 AM PST by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Trayvon was scum whose extermination saved people from the problems he would have created.

We are all better for his loss.


56 posted on 02/06/2018 7:08:13 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Let’s all burglarize a house, get high on purple drank and beat the crap out of some little pudgy Obama supporters to celebrate!


57 posted on 02/06/2018 7:08:22 AM PST by thorvaldr
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Patrisse Cullors is an artist, organizer and the author of “When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir.” She is the cofounder of Black Lives Matter and founder of Dignity and Power”

They left out fiction writer.


58 posted on 02/06/2018 7:18:00 AM PST by CrazyIvan (A gentleman arms himself for the protection of others.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

/retch


59 posted on 02/06/2018 7:18:10 AM PST by sauropod (I am His and He is mine.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The author of this propaganda would have us believe that if he had lived Trayvon would now be practicing medicine following undergraduate, medical school, internship and residency. He and Michael Brown could have done all of this together.


60 posted on 02/06/2018 7:30:02 AM PST by Saltmeat
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