The Struggle Continues

I don't feel noways tired after the struggle for justice for Trayvon Martin.  But I have to ask, why African Americans have to struggle for basic equal, civil and human rights in the land of the free and the home of the brave?

I place much of the blame on the white male dominated  mainstream media.   When the Trayvon Martin story finally hit the national media Al Sharpton, President Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder and others who led the fight for simple justice became the targets of racial hatred.

What get me is conservative don't believe black folks should have the same rights as white folks.  When Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee and State Attorney Norm Wolfinger said there would be no arrest in the Trayvon Martin case that was the end of story, and black folks were supposed to just say Yessir Massa  Suh weeze won't be asking for no justice, weeze just shuffle on off into the sunset like good little effing coons.


 Not.


So where do we go from here?  

We keep our eyes on the prize and struggle on.

We must remember that this problem is must bigger than Zimmerman. What about the Sanford Police Department that let Zimmerman go free? What about the continuing systemic and nationwide problem of racial profiling? What about racial differences in charging and sentencing? What about those ridiculous “stand your ground” laws in over 20 states?

"He said that Tray was gone"

That's how Trayvon Martin's mother, Sybrina Fuller, found out that her 17-year-old son had been gunned down in a gated townhouse community in Sandford, Florida, in a telephone call from his father, Tracy Martin, one day after he was shot.

Trayvon Martin (RIP), and his murderer, George Zimmerman

Now that some of the 911 tapes were released in the Trayvon Martin killing, I can understand why the Sanford Police Department didn't want to release them.  The tapes are shocking and chilling.  What I don't understand is why George Zimmerman still hasn't been arrested, and why the case is being turned over to the Seminole County State Attorney General by the Sandford Police Department?

Meet the Seminole County State Attorney General,  Norman J. Wolfinger, A Viet Nam Veteran, best known for his 1988 conviction of mass murderer William Cruse, sentenced to death for two of the six murders during the Palm Bay Shopping Center shooting.  The decision of whether to prosecute George Zimmerman for the murder of Trayvon Martin is in his hands. For now.  

"He was yelling for help, and no one could help him.  He saw his life being taken away from him"

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