For too many decades, Americans have ignored the injustices
within our judiciary & penal realms when it comes to adults & the New
Jim Crow. We will no longer tolerate those same injustices visiting our youth
or the mentality it generates. In all good conscience we cannot allow it to
continue. The verdict in the murder of Trayvon Martin has taken the pot of
injustice off the back burner & added salt to the wounds of those who have
fallen prey to a broken justice system.
I have to question the character of the jurors… man sits in front of them & openly admits
that he has killed one of our youth. Unlike the jurors I was not concerned
about whose voice was heard on the tape screaming for his life. There were too
many other factors that raised the small hairs on my neck. ‘These people always
get away!’ Which people Mr. Z-nut? There was only Trayvon, a lone Black
teenager. Anyone who is active in Neighborhood Watch knows what ‘watch’ means.
When you called 911 an officer answered your call. You were informed that
officers were being dispatched & you were directed to wait for those
officers to arrive. However, you disobeyed that directive, after all those
officers may not have carried out the momentary agenda you had embraced at that
time…they may have told him to go on his way. He was not out after curfew, it
was not late at night. You had every intention of invading Trayvon’s personal
space & comfort zone.
You followed Trayvon & exited your vehicle. Every day
across this Nation women & children know all too well the fear that visits
a person when they are followed, especially at night…when few people are in the
vicinity. The ego of a judge & jury, a wanna-be cop confronted Trayvon.
Your reputation of being a rough shod over young Black youth preceded you &
when you approached Trayvon in a threatening manner, he reacted like any
individual who had become prey. You shot him recognizing that you were losing
control of not only the struggle, but your mission. After all, the law in Fla
would protect you.
For over a year, your actions of that night have embedded
‘fear’ into the minds & hearts of youth & parents across this Nation.
The verdict which was handed down has empowered your ego & those of your
ilk who wield their own interpretation of justice. Now, despite the fact that
you’ve had mental health issues in the past & trouble with anger
management, cases that were buried due to the position your parents have held
in the past. It is difficult for me to comprehend why the State of Fla would
return your weapon in good conscience back to you. You Mr. Z-nut should be the
image on posters for mental health background checks concerning new provisions
for gun control. Personally, I do not want to live in a community where you
reside or the State.
The only justice that has so far been dealt out of this
travesty of injustice, is that your aspirations of a police officer anywhere in
the US no longer exists for you to wield your power & sic justice. Threats
of death & harm have fallen not only on the victim’s family, but the
predator. Now you fear for your life…yet, nobody has entered your personal
space or comfort zone to confront you for your actions. Individuals have a
tendency to shy away from an animal when they know that it is rabid in fear
that the same incubated disease will visit their person. Mr. Z-nut…the greatest
thing you have to fear, is fear itself…the shadows & monsters of your own
creation…the blood & nightmare that you’ll never be able to wash from your
hands & sleep.
I hope that Trayvon’s murder will not be for naught…that
justice & new stipulations for the Stand Your Ground Law will continue to
be pursued. I am grateful for the
protests & their peaceful demeanor around our Nation. The greatest changes
within our Nation have always come from a peaceful movement. There is still
hope that a further justice process on the Federal level will proceed in the
matter of Trayvon’s murder. Changes
undoubtedly will occur, not because your self-serving agenda was carried
out…but because one of our youth was taken from us too soon in such an evil,
insane, animalistic way before he could reach all that he aspired to be.
Trayvon did not have an arrest record…but you did Mr. Z-nut. Always remember
that what goes around comes around….usually tenfold..
Lady Gray
