What Killed President Kennedy and Trayvon Martin?
February 26 will mark one year since 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was killed by a gun wielded by self-appointed neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman after he saw Trayvon walking home from a 7-Eleven with a bag of Skittles and bottle of Arizona iced tea.
Black children, youths, and families know first-hand that the killing of Black children by gun violence is not new but a relentlessly unreported and under-reported plague that has been disproportionately snuffing out Black child lives for a very long time. Fifteen percent of children and teens are Black but 45 percent of all children and youths killed by guns in 2010 were Black. Black boys 15 to 19 years old were 28 times more likely than White boys the same age to be killed in a gun homicide.
Shortly after President Kennedy’s assassination, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote that it was time for our nation to do some soul-searching, and while the question “Who killed President Kennedy?” was important, answering the question “What killed President Kennedy?” was even more critical. Dr. King believed the answer was that “our late president was assassinated by a morally inclement climate”: “It is a climate filled with heavy torrents of false accusation, jostling winds of hatred, and raging storms of violence. It is a climate where men cannot disagree without being disagreeable, and where they express dissent through violence and murder. It is the same climate that murdered Medgar Evers in Mississippi and six innocent Negro children in Birmingham, Alabama.” Dr. King further noted that the undercurrents of hatred and violence that made up this morally inclement climate were fueled by our cultural embrace of guns: “By our readiness to allow arms to be purchased at will and fired at whim, by allowing our movie and television screens to teach our children that the hero is one who masters the art of shooting and the technique of killing, by allowing all these developments, we have created an atmosphere in which violence and hatred have become popular pastimes.”
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PART of the problem is “hate”…and there are other elements to it. Our nation has been engrossed in violence since its beginning. Cruel and violent slavery was at the root of creating wealth for the U.S. And since then…there have been numerous wars.
Some people did not like the way that Malcolm X described the Kennedy assassination…. when he said…”It’s a sign of chickens coming home to roost.” But Bro. Malcolm was correct.
Dr. King was against the Vietnam War and he stated…
“The bombs we drop over there
will one day explode over here.”
GREEN ON WALL ST….and the Military Industrial Complex have run wild…trying to dominate the world and suck out commodities from other countries…like oil, gold, etc. TO MAKE CERTAIN PEOPLE RICH.
And now we see that this nation has big time economic, social, mental, racial, and educational problems. The manuf. jobs have left…shipped overseas. The rich have failed to be “job creators” in this country. Many of our big cities are falling apart….such as Detroit. Thugs, drug dealers, pimps, and other criminals roam the streets with guns and rob people.
TRAYVON MARTIN was killed by the same “white power mentality” that props up those laws like “stand your ground.”
We live in a very violent nation and the words of Dr. King and Min. Malcolm X hold true today as they did back then.
Poverty and ignorance are the two things killing African-American male youth. Young males living in homes without fathers are expected to lead the family for single moms. Most of these women do not understand how they are limiting the life and future of these young men. They will grow up (ignorant) due to a lack of education and the cycle continues. Single moms are a plague on the African-American race in America.
A very sneaky way of putting your 2 cent opinion in for doing away with guns!
So when the government takes away the gun from the law abiding people then only the government and crooks will have them!
Of course they should also be taken from the police, I mean if Obama wants us to be like Europe, don’t play around lets get all in!
Total control by the government.
Little bitty cars in order to save fuel.
Police with billy clubs.
A country over run by Muslims
Your agenda stinks, I for one will not be a part of it. The rest of you uninformed Lemmings just say yes that’s a good idea and follow along,
What do these murders have in common other than guns? Not even same century. Is the article to discourage guns?
Guns are old tech anyway. All kinds of fancy weapons now, if you can get them. Even nukes nearly 100 years old.
Don’t believe any media, 99% lies & distractions that make you sick.
Stay true, to yourself & God.