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TRAYVON MARTIN: HE COULD BE ANY OF OUR SONS

I know people who have been tweeting and updating their FaceBook statuses about Trayvon Martin. However I just took the time yesterday to actually read about what happened. My heart is heavy and I am saddened by the fact that a 17 year old boy was shot down while walking home from the store because someone in the neighborhood watch thought he looked suspicious. As a mother raising a child that will become a black man I have to stay in faith and prayed up for my child because the world that we live in has some sick, twisted people that have no regard for all life. I have to continue to declare Yahweh's hedge of protection over my son and send him out covered in the blood for Yahweh's protection is the only protection I know to lean on.

Trayvon Martin's killer is not in jail right now under the guise that he acted in self-defense. Supposedly the only witnesses to the crime are Trayvon and the shooter. So what does that mean? Right now that means that his killer is at home living life as normal as if he did not kill an innocent teenage boy. Now whether or not the killer has trouble sleeping at night, we may never know but he still has the ability to see, touch, smell, feel, and hear his family.

Have we as a community become so immune to the killings of our young or our people in general that we don’t stand up and come together to speak against injustices like this. I know that the color of change is working on helping the family, they are the same group that was helping with the Troy Davis case.

What saddens me the most is that there seems to be no regard for the life of black people especially black men. As if nothing has changed since slavery. Sure many of us walk around happy go lucky and free but if something happens to one of us, we should all feel the effects of it. Again that age old question what is that we do. Sign the petition, write a letter, support a cause that you feel is worthy. Do your best to stay informed, do something.

I’m glad that the FBI is now involved in the case, I simply pray that justice prevails for Trayvon Martin and that his killer receives a punishment fitting for his crime. In my opinion this was out right murder, this was in no way a justified killing. The police clearly told the killer to stay in his vehicle, they were on the way, he chose to do otherwise then wants to cry self-defense. If he felt that threatened he should have stayed in his car!

Here are some links:

http://www.change.org/petitions/prosecute-the-killer-of-our-son-17-year-old-trayvon-martin


http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-florida-teen-neighborhood-watch-20120319,0,7016674.story?track=rss


http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/03/19/trayvon-martins-murder-was-the-motive-self-defense-or-racism/


What are your thoughts?

Be a blessing and be blessed,
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