understood that george zimmerman would be afraid in this moment. it felt to me as though this all turned on the difficulty of believing that trayvon martin could be afraid. yes. right. that s exactly right. that he humanized this child who s been lost? he did. he made him into a 17-year-old african-american male who has to fear for his safety wherever he goes, who s profiled wherever he goes. now he s dead but he will forever be remembered. i just wrote a piece for ebony magazine that will be coming out soon. i ve been talking about this issue for a long time, the rodney king case in 1994, i wrote about professor gates in 2010. now here we are again talking about the very same issues. it s time for us to move forward and do some of the things we promised to do before. juror b-37 also identified with stand your ground. she identified with zimmerman and she identified with the law. and so you have the racial aspect of it and you also have
understood that george zimmerman would be afraid in this moment. it felt to me as though this all turned on the difficulty of believing that trayvon martin could be afraid. yes. right. that s exactly right. that he humanized this child who s been lost? he did. he made him into a 17-year-old african-american male who has to fear for his safety wherever he goes, who s profiled wherever he goes. now he s dead but he will forever be remembered. i just wrote a piece for ebony magazine that will be coming out soon. i ve been talking about this issue for a long time, the rodney king case in 1994, i wrote about professor gates in 2010. now here we are again talking about the very same issues. it s time for us to move forward and do some of the things we promised to do before. juror b-37 also identified with stand your ground. she identified with zimmerman and she identified with the law. and so you have the racial aspect of it and you also have the enabling of the racial aspect bec
there in the african american community n many parts. absolutely and the conversation evolves. as sybrina says we have to take something negative and find something positive. we have to ask the department of justice can little black and brown boys walk down the street and not have private citizens with guns profile and follow them and confront them because we need to know the law because we need to know what to tell our children, and if that is not the law, then the killer of trayvon martin should be held accountable for violating his civil rights. because he had every legal right to walk down that neighborhood sidewalk and not be profiled and confronted. yet, as you know, the juror b-37 and i m assuming other jurors as well didn t discuss race in the jury room. she clearly does not believe that race played any role in the profiling of trayvon martin at
where it s effective. protest where your lawmakers are involved, lobbyist, legislators and know who is in charge. vote, stand up, vote, stay educated and show up to jury selection. i m a big proponent to that. i wish i would be picked one day but i won t be. it tallies to what juror b-37 said. she said my prayers with those who have the influence and power that modify the laws that left me with no option other than not guilty that remain in the instructions. no other family should endure what the martin family endured. it totally concur with what you just said because, you know, in just though it may seem, you can t really blame george zimmerman. he s been well-defended under the current law yeah, and i and if the law gets changed and another person does the same thing, maybe held to a different legal standard. and honestly, that s what a lot of victims and survivors do in the aftermath of their tragedy is they go on to ever
their death? i think that was a very insensitive statement coming from her. from the beginning of the trial, she had her mind made up. you believe she had her mind made up from the beginning of the trial? no doubt. no doubt. as you know, juror b-37 and i assume the other jurors as well didn t discuss race in the jury room. she doesn t believe race played a role at any level in this case. what do you think of that? i think that s a joke because he clearly said in the 911 calls that it was a black teenager, an african-american teenager. so, that was the profile. trayvon had every right to be in that community. i don t understand why she wouldn t see that, but then again, there s the disconnect.