WE ARE TRAYVON MARTIN

It was Dr. Marc Lamont Hill who once said, "Black lives don't have as much value in our society as White lives." It is astonishing how truthful that reality is. The Transatlantic Slave Trade, Jim and Jane Crow are just few examples of the historical legacy of African-American existential inequality in these yet be to United States of America. But I must say that we have made tremendous and transformational  advances as a people and as a society. A black man by the name of Barack Obama along with his family now occupy the most powerful, influential residence in the world. Yet Trayvon Martin murderer remains free.

The Trayvon  Martin, 2012 public lynching, is a  tragic chapter within the narrative of the American story. A young man with so much potential and promise sleeps in an early grave. George Zimmerman murdered Trayvon simply because he had the time, opportunity,  the law , and the doctrine of White privilege to protect him. The unforgettable 911 call  captures Trayvon begging for his life while simultaneously displaying the heartless, merciless man that George Zimmerman is. A Klansman without the horse and sheets but with the same philosophy, and intentionality as those vigilantes. George Zimmerman's actions are haunting reminders that Black Americans often find themselves failed by the same laws that disproportionately protects their white counterparts. Emmit Till's reality is alive and well, embodied in the injustice that permeates this awful ordeal.

Dr. Martin Luther King once prognosticated that, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." That's so true. Their is no difference between Trayvon and our son's, nephews, grand-son's, brothers, uncles etc. WE ARE TRAYVON MARTIN. Our society equates young Black males with criminality by virtue of their very existence. What a sad commentary. Justice must be served for Trayvon, his parents, his family, his friends, for Emmit Till, Troy Davis, and other Black males who were senselessly murdered because WE ARE TRAYVON MARTIN!!