It is amazing how in this day and age, it is still a scary thing to many (some themselves Black) to see a Black person walking in the night. Remember the trouble Reverend Jackson got into for his comment about a Black man walking behind him on a street.
Trayvon Martin’s killing is a sad commentary on how a few people and the insatiable media can produce so much information and pundit interpretation for no apparent good.
In fact, the truth or the lessons we can learn from this tragedy may never come to light and remain buried in a public discourse without much reason but lots of blame and suspicion to go around.
Feel free to re-tweet and distribute this post so that we can counter the popular media noise (right and left) with these reasonable truths and lessons:
Truths -
Trayvon was a kid on his way home minding his own business
Trayvon was unarmed and was fatally shot with a gun
Trayvon is dead and his family is in unimaginable pain
The adult who chose to pursue Trayvon is the causal agent in this tragedy
Lessons learned thus far …
Gun controll and regulations are a must in a modern society where there is no sense of community or safety
Let the police do their work
Let the courts do their work
Make sure both sides in a dispute have quality legal representation
Race and skin color still matter in post Obama America
Keep professional advocates and media pundits out of it as much as possible
Don’t let Trayvon’ssenseless death pass without us all reflecting on
“how what we think of eachothers differences eventually will help us build one strong, just and productive America or not.”
Trayvon’s senseless death tells us we are not doing very well in:
Our neighborliness
In our parenting
In our education
In our spirituality
In our very ability to feel and be respectful of this family who waited for their kid to get home with some junk food from the local store and were catapulted into every parent’s worst nightmare…
for no reason at all …
Except, of course, the gunmen’s curiosity and media like excitement for a Black nightwalker …
We loving parents walk with you Trayvon … and hope that future generations earn to fear and respect guns more and respect young Black Men on the street even more than that…
Trayvon Martin Protest - Sanford (Photo credit: werthmedia)
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