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.)

Trayvon Kicked to the Curb, Michael Takes Center Stage

Trayvon Kicked to the Curb, Michael Takes Center Stage

 

Remember Trayvon Martin?  Of course you do.

For those who don’t, Trayvon was the 17 year-old, unarmed Sanford, Florida black teenager who was shot and killed by white neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman in 2012 and then crowned the new poster boy for black racist agitators, supplanting their previous hero, Rodney King.

Zimmerman was subsequently exonerated by a jury of his peers on the grounds of self-defense.  His exoneration didn’t mean a tinker’s dam to the agitators who continued to campaign for his assassination and inflamed the nation into an orgy of demonstrations, looting, and student strikes–all in Martin’s honor.

In point of fact, Trayvon Martin may have been a chronological teenager but he was also a muscular, six-foot one thug and an avid strret fighter with a record of drug use and possession of burglar tools, although none of those negative character features were brought up either at Zimmerman’s trial or by Trayvon’s chief fan club, the New Black Panther Party.

Instead, he was lauded in the mainstream media as an innocent, young kid who had been senselessly murdered and was then virtually adopted posthumously by Barack Hussein Obama when the president said, “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.”

Now, fast forward to 2014 and Ferguson, Missouri’s 18 year-old Michael Brown.

The unarmed Brown was shot and killed last Saturday by a Ferguson police officer but few other details on the circumstances of the shooting had been made public, not even the cop’s name or race.  Until today when the officer’s name was released.  

In view of the numerous death threats made against him and the murderous reputation of the New Black Panther Party which agitated for that information, that move might be tantamount to complicity in murder.

The police also released today videotape evidence that Brown wasn’t exactly your average black kid in Ferguson, unless the average black kid in the St. Louis suburb engages in stealing cigars from a local convenience store and strong-arming a white clerk half his size.

That surveillance video puts the lie to claims that Brown was simply . . . Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=38549.) 

Canonizing Trayvon Martin

Canonizing Trayvon Martin

 

With Pope Francis scheduled to officially recognize former Popes John XXIII and John Paul II as canonized saints in the Roman Catholic Church on Sunday, it’s appropriate that we pay homage to an unofficial American saint-in-the-making, black martyr, Trayvon Benjamin Martin.

If eventually secularly sanctified, Martin’s sainthood would be unique.

The fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin, a 17 year old black man-child, by 29 year old, mixed-race neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman in the early evening of February 26th, 2012, was an avoidable national tragedy, but hardly grounds for Trayvon’s sainthood in any sense.

It was avoidable because Martin failed to control his rage at being accosted and challenged and because of Zimmerman’s overzealousness in performing his volunteer job of protecting his Sanford, Florida community.
I
t evolved into a national tragedy, in fact, a national travesty, when Zimmerman was pre-judged guilty and threatened with execution by radical civil rights agitators. 

That unpunished, outrageous threat by the New Black Panther Party accompanied the mainstream media wildly sensationalizing and twisting the truth about the defendant and the incident and was further exacerbated by the president of the United States needlessly interjecting himself in a local affair, thereby intentionally or unintentionally helping ignite a national firestorm over race, prejudice, and the equity of “Stand Your Ground” laws.

(See graphic, including previously suppressed, photos of Martin and Zimmerman here http://tinyurl.com/k9blrzo.)

When George Zimmerman was totally exonerated by a jury of his peers in July, 2013 and the FBI regretfully conceded it found no racial bias in the shooting, overly optimistic observers assumed, hoped, that the unfortunate spectacle was over and done with. 

We naively felt that Martin would and should forever be fondly remembered by his family and friends and that  Zimmerman would and should be permitted to live out his life as an innocent, free man.

Of course, as often detailed in this space, none of those hopes came to fruition.

Following the not guilty verdict, black agitators like the New Black Panther Party, Al Sharpton, and Jesse Jackson reacted by ramping up their threats and racial hatred.  Obama’s MSM continued to publish pictures depicting Trayvon as an innocent 12 year old instead of the thuggish, menacing 17 year old he had become.  Martin’s memory was cynically transformed into a black cause of dubious merit.  And Zimmerman was forced to go into hiding to preserve his life.
Compounding those belated miscarriages of justice at the same time they demeaned the life and death of Trayvon Martin, . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=36827.)