The Phony Trayvon Martin Foundation

The Phony Trayvon Martin Foundation

 

Acording to its website, the Trayvon Martin Foundation is dedicated to creating “awareness of how violent crime impacts the families of the victims and to provide support and advocacy for those families in response to the murder of Trayvon Martin. . . . [and] to advocate that crime victims and their families are not ignored in the discussions about violent crime to increase public awareness of all forms of racial ethnic and gender profiling to educate youth on conflict resolution techniques and to reduce the incidences where confrontations between strangers turn deadly.”

An admirable “Mission Statement,” indeed!  Who could take issue with the goals of supporting victims’ families and educating young blacks who are killing one another nationwide in unprecedented numbers?

The chief problem with that dedication is that the TMF, founded in March 2012 by the late Trayvon’s parents, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin as a not-for-profit organization, less than a month after their son was killed by George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida, is that it is predicated on a fundamental falsehood since, in fact, his death was not a murder.

“Murder” is commonly defined as an unlawful, premeditated killing of a human being with malice aforethought.  The shooting death of Trayvon Martin doesn’t come close to satisfying that accepted meaning of the word and its use constitutes nothing more than an incendiary effort to arouse false sympathy and irrational anger in African-American circles, as well as to stoke funding for the foundation.

Despite a concerted effort on the parts of local and federal authorities, the mass media, and black racemongers to convict him, Zimmerman was acquitted over a year ago on the basis that he lawfully, without either premeditation or malice, shot and killed Martin as an act of self-defense during the course of carrying out his patrol duties as neighborhood watch coordinator at the gated Retreat at Twin Lakes, a community beset by a rash of burglaries and home invasions.

It was certainly the prerogative of Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin to establish a foundation in memory of their son, just as it was perfectly within his grieving mother’s rights to try to trademark virtually everything associated with Trayvon’s name, also only a month after his tragic death.

At the great risk of seeming grossly insensitive, . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=38622.)