First & foremost, I want to say that the Trayvon Martin case hit way too close to home for me. Being that I have a twelve-year old black son to raise in a world that is still full of racist views, I have grown weary of the same old song. An unarmed black child or adult gets shot because of the aspersions that have been cast about blacks since "The Birth Of A Nation." In that horrid movie that has been labeled a "classic", the stereotype of a black brute was solidified. The brute stereotype of a black man is a part of Western culture. That is what happened in the case of Oscar Grant, Trayvon Martin, etc...
Here's an excerpt from an in-depth article on the brute caricature from Authentic History.com:
" The brute is perhaps the only anti-Black caricature that did not show up in popular culture during the days of slavery. Brutes are hideous, savage, violent male predators who target helpless victims, especially White women. The brute caricature existed during slavery, but only as the White slave owner's worst nightmare of what his slaves, who outnumbered him, would really like to do to him. Due to a variety of circumstances, Black-on-White violence was much more prevalent in other Western hemisphere slave societies than it was in the United States.
Slaves managed to take over the country of Haiti in 1804. In the United States, slave owners were much better organized than they were in other countries, and when the slave trade ended in 1808, the population thereafter was sustained only through native births, quickly creating a whole new generation that did not know anything but slavery. Nevertheless, fear of rebellion, like the one led by Nat Turner in 1831 which seemed to have no long-term goal beyond slaughtering White people, was always in the back of the slave owner's mind. The brute was the imagined manifestation of that fear, but it was not given visual manifestation for fear that it would become a self-fulling prophecy." (End of Excerpt) Read more here.
Trayvon Martin was an innocent victim. He wasn't packing a gun. George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch man, was the culprit who was carrying heat. Why are the Sanford Police trying to come to Zimmerman's defense? In the process of coming to George Zimmerman's defense by leaking information, they are attempting to cover their own tracks. Or lack of. Because they seemed to have no interest in conducting a thorough investigation. They reached their own conclusions about Trayvon Martin when they administered a drug test on his corpse. The Sanford Police did not drug test George Zimmerman. Why not?
In conclusion, when is it ever okay to turn a victim into a criminal? Trayvon Martin was not a criminal & he was not committing a crime. This type of chicanery has been tolerated by the black community for far too long. That is why I finally decided to comment on the murder of Trayvon Martin. This was murder, not self-defense.George Zimmerman ought to have his day in court. Whether he is White or Hispanic is irrelevant. You can be a self-hating Black who kills other Blacks. Believe me, there are far too many Asian, Hispanics,etc... that don't like African-Americans simply because they believe that is the way to get excepted into this Western or European society. So, that's why the race of the killer doesn't matter. Only the murder that he committed should be the focus.
Oscar Grant's killer,who was actually a cop, had to answer to some degree for his action. Why not George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida?
