Complete coverage of the Trayvon Martin case by The Takeaway.
MoreSanford, Florida, where 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by 27-year-old George Zimmerman over one month ago, is currently host to the worst kind of attention a small town could possibly imagine. After weeks of protests around the country, the question lingers as to whether the small town's image will be eternally marred the way that Selma or Birmingham, Alabama still evoke the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
What connection does this town have to the long history of the American civil rights movement? For answers, we turn to Isabel Wilkerson. She's a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author of "The Warmth of Other Suns: the Epic Story of America’s Great Migration."
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There are, sadly, hundreds of other young black males dying after being shot. In Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia and too many other places. And more than 90% of those vicitms are shot by other young black males.
There is a problem; there is an epidemic. The problem/epidemic is NOT cases like the Trayvon Martin case.
The Trayvon case is a terrible thing (nd we don't know the details yet). But the greater problem for the African-American community is that 1/3 of their children are killed in abortion, targeted by Planned P. Where is the protest of the African-American leaders?
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