May 17, 2012 • 3:57 am 0
The killing of Trayvon Martin here two and a half months ago has been cast as the latest test of race relations and equal justice in America. But it was also a test of a small city police department that does not even have a homicide unit and typically deals with three or four …
MORE via Trayvon Martin Case Shadowed by Police Missteps – NYTimes.com.
Filed under: Blogosphere, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Culture Think, Parenting, Public Policy, Trayvon, Trayvon Martin
April 21, 2012 • 7:26 pm 0
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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April 11, 2012 • 1:49 am 0
The Trayvon Martin case took a bizarre turn Tuesday when George Zimmerman’s attorneys quit, complaining that they have lost all contact with him and that he called the prosecutor and talked to a TV host after they told him not to …
MORE via Prosecutor to Make Announcement in Martin Case – NYTimes.com.
Filed under: Community Tragedy, Crimes and Misdemeanors, News, George Zimmerman, Gun control, NRA, Trayvon Martin
April 6, 2012 • 5:56 am 0
The Trayvon Martin case has highlighted issues relating to the treatment of blacks by local police departments, the state of race relations in the U.S. and press coverage of African Americans. Pew Research Center surveys in recent years have covered the opinions of African Americans on these and other issues.
A survey in 2009 found that while African Americans had a positive overall assessment of the state of race relations in the country, just 14% of them said they had a great deal of confidence in local police officers to treat blacks and whites equally, compared to 38% of whites.
The same survey found that 43% of Africans Americans said that there is a lot of discrimination against blacks, compared with just 13% of whites.
Nearly six-in-ten (58%) African Americans said that news coverage of blacks was too negative; just 31% of whites said that coverage of blacks was too negative, according to a survey conducted in 2010.
The Trayvon Martin killing controversy was the public’s most-followed story during the March 22-25 period. African Americans were more than twice as likely as whites to say that this was their top story (52% vs. 20%).
MORE via Blacks’ Views of Law Enforcement, Racial Progress and News Coverage of Race – Pew Research Center.
Filed under: African American, Blogosphere, Changing Media Paradigm, Civic Engagement, Community Tragedy, Culture Think, Gun control, Trayvon Martin
March 23, 2012 • 4:36 am 0
Last August, Wendy Dorival got a call about setting up a local neighborhood watch. As the volunteer coordinator for the Police Department here, she gets such calls regularly, and the city already had at least 10 …
MORE via Trayvon Martin Death Spotlights Neighborhood Watch Groups – NYTimes.com.
Filed under: Blogosphere, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Culture Think, News, Public Policy, Neighborhood Watch, Trayvon Martin, vigilanti justice
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