"My message to you is please use my story, please use my tragedy, please use my broken heart to say to yourself we cannot let this happen to anybody else's child,"
In a powerful and poignant speech to the
annual conference of the National Urban League, Sybrina Fulton pled for an end to the SYG law in Florida.
"The absolute worst call you can receive as a parent is to know your son...you will never kiss again. I'll just ask you to wrap your mind around that. Around no prom for Trayvon. No high school graduation for Trayvon. No college...no grandkids coming from Trayvon."
The Dream Defenders have answered Sybrina Fulton's call. They are doing something about this abomination foisted upon Florida by Jeb Bush, The Koch Brothers and the NRA. Money gave us the SYG laws, people power - and only people power - with get them repealed.
Do not allow the spinmeisters to change the topic. Do not buy into rightwing propaganda by talking about hoodies and gangster uniforms and black people littering in Harlem. How dare you, Don Lemon?!
Do not allow Zimmerman defenders to get away with the big lie that Trayvon was killed because he looked like a criminal and stuff about single mothers and sagging pants and every racist stereotype they can throw into the pot.
I searched for pictures of Bernie Madoff and Steve Cohen and I couldn't find one with them wearing hoodies.
Trayvon was murdered because the murderer had a gun and he knew about his state's SYG law. That is what we must insist on talking about.
We are ever so thankful for the Dream Defenders. They need our help to see this through.
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Wake Up Everybody...
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