Thursday, March 22, 2012

Justice For Trayvon Martin

I was reading on how Neil Aquino commented on the Trayvon Martin case. This was located on the Texas Liberal under the heading "Trayvon Martin Case Requires Justice." Some of the facts about the case was that the 17 year old male (Trayvon Martin) was walking around his neighborhood and got shot and died. His neighbor George Zimmerman (the alleged shooter) was never arrested and is still not being charged with any crime. In the overview it says Trayvon only had a bag of skittles and an Arizona iced tea in his hands from the store he just visited. This is what Zimmerman had claimed to the police looked suspicious as he followed Tray around the neighborhood. To me those items wouldn't or couldn't make anybody a threat to society. Mr. Aquino made it more clear that he thought that the shooting was the result of Tray "walking while black or being outside while black." Honestly from the details of the story and seeing how defenseless Trayvon was i agree with Neil. There is no way people of any color should be followed around and then shoot for looking a certain way. The intended audience is everyone and anyone with ears because a situation like this isn't limited to one type of race or gender. I think the author wanted to reach anybody he could. He also provides this link Wheres The Outrage on blogs Errington Thompson has been writing on race and this very story. I think he's asking for your help and if not your help then to bring this story to your attention. What you don't know you can't change and what you can't change will never be fixed. Fixed meaning brought to justice and fairly dealt with as should all situations to where someone was killed. The justice Neil is asking for is beyond reasonable and well deserved. And not only for Trayvon but for the possible victims that could be next. 



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