Will St. Michael of Ferguson Join St. Trayvon of Sanford?

Will St. Michael of Ferguson Join St. Trayvon of Sanford?

 

They’re still demonstrating in Ferguson, Missouri three weeks after the shooting death by a white policeman of the black, unarmed, 18 year old ”Gentle Giant” Michael Brown, a six foot, four inch, 200+ pound “Big Teddy Bear,” and there are already signs that Brown may soon be elevated to virtual sainthood to reign with Trayvon Martin as the patron saints of all black teenaged martyrs of evil white people.

The unarmed, seventeen year old, black teen Trayvon Martin was killed in Sanford, Florida in 2012 with a bullet fired from the legally-owned weapon of Neighborhood Watchman, mixed-race George Zimmerman.

Numerous reports surfaced substantiating the truth, namely that Martin was a violent gang banger, after Zimmerman was  exonerated on the basis of self defense by an impartial jury of his peers.  Nevertheless, Trayvon Martin has been enshrined by his supporters as an innocent martyr to the cause of the African-American quest for truth and justice, a black saint who gave up his life to a hateful, white bigot.

If anything, Michael Brown revealed himself as an even greater low life than Trayvon during his aborted career as a rap aficionado.

In Brown’s case, his supporters have intentionally ignored multiple video and eyewitness evidence that the Ferguson police officer had also acted in self defense and in line with his enforcement duties but those realities and the fact that police and FBI haven’t even completed their investigations have failed to deter them from characterizing Brown as just one more innocent victim of white injustice worthy of virtual sainthood.

Lauded by his 2013 summer school English teacher as an aspiring rap song writer who “had a plan. It was his music, and then it was technical school. A lot of kids who think they’re rappers don’t have a Plan B, but Mike really seemed to.” 

But Wesley Lowery, while gratuitously praising Brown, described him in the Washington Post as a prolific rapper “who appeared to be one of those guys who was putting in the time, even if the skills didn’t quite match his aspirations.”

To advance his rap career as “Big Mike Luh Vee K,” Brown actually built a makeshift, basement music studio where he composed, sang, and recorded such lyrics as, . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=38835)