Simply unable to let go of this Trayvon Martin 'thing', many still stubbornly refuse to recognize the fact that he was just another thug, not the sweet, innocent victim that they just love to portray him as being. So it is, then, that we now have Andrew Young joining the chorus, saying that he spoke with Trayvon Martin’s mother after the acquittal of George Zimmerman and compared Martin’s death with that of Emmett Till, going so far as to call both martyrs in the ongoing racial struggles of African Americans. So now we're to view this punk as somehow being a martyr? Really, Andy? Sorry, but I'm just not seeing it.
"It's a needless sacrificial death and I told that to his mother [Sybrina Fulton]," Young, a former ambassador, U.S. congressman, and two-time mayor of Atlanta, said in a recent interview. A needless sacrificial death? Well maybe if Trayvon hadn't decided to try to beat the crap out of a cracker, he wouldn't be lying six feet under right now. He made the decision that resulted in his death, no one else. So old Andy can take this martyr shit and shove it, because it's nothing more than another attempt to incite, and to inflame as best he can as much racial hatred as he can. In that sense, Young is no different than Sharpton or Jackson.
But Andy wasn't done, going on to say, "I said, you know, Dr. [Martin Luther] King always said that unearned suffering is redemptive and that in the church, we've always said that there's no remission of sins without the shedding of innocent blood." Innocent blood, right. Sweet little Trayvon, innocent as a new born babe, and gunned down for no reason. Give me a break! Andy went on to say, "I [also] told her, I feel sorry for Zimmerman too. I mean his life is ruined." Adding, "Trying to substitute a gun for real manhood is not the way we want to raise our young people. That was a no-win situation for America. And every incident of violence is that way."
Real manhood, that's rich, especially coming from a sleazy bag, race-baiter like Young. How many 'real' men are there in the black community today, Andy? Men who go out and beat up old white folks just to get their sick jollies, or shoot little white babies in the face. Or how about the men who go out and have sex with just about anything that walks, only to produce kids who will grow up never knowing who their father is, nor caring, really. I'd like to know if that's how old Andy, here, defines manhood? No, really, I'd like to know! What kind of 'man' beats up a 89 year old WWII vet, or shoots a 13 month old in the face, right in front of the mother?
I think we all know that Martin was shot to death by Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, during a confrontation down in Sanford, Florida. A confrontation instigated by Martin. And because of pressure from the likes of hucksters like Young, Zimmerman was arrested even though there was no evidence that requried it, was then forced to go through a trial, before eventually being acquitted of murder and manslaughter amid allegations the incident was sparked by racial profiling. That, even though jurors said that, from the evidence provided, race was not a factor and even members of the prosecution team said that race was not a factor.
Now on the other hand, it was in 1955 that Till, who was then 14, was visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi, when he was beaten and shot dead for reportedly flirting with a white woman. Two men were acquitted of Till's murder, but admitted it later in a magazine interview, protected against double jeopardy. So, of course, even a blind bigot can see the obvious similarities between the two events, right? Not! And for Young to compare the two events, and throw around the word martyr, does nothing more that to belittle the true tragedy that occurred in 1955. And for what reason, exactly? Makes you wonder what is it that scum like Young are really hoping to accomplish here.
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