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发帖数: 29846 | 1 March 24, 2012 Posted by Rick Rice
President Obama interjected himself into the Trayvon Martin tragedy when he
stated at a press conference Friday, “If I had a son, he would look like
Trayvon“.
Many took the comment to be a reaction to criticism he’d been silent for
too long on what had taken place in Florida.
I’d like to see him man up and react to this:
NBPPMembers of the New Black Panther Party are offering a $10,000 reward
for the “capture” of George Zimmerman, the Neighborhood Watch volunteer
who shot Trayvon Martin.
New Black Panther leader Mikhail Muhammad announced the reward during a
protest in Sanford Saturday. And when asked whether he was inciting violence
, Muhammad replied defiantly: “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.”
The bounty announcement came moments after members of the group called
for the mobilization of 10,000 black men to capture Zimmerman, who shot
Trayvon in a gated Sanford community on Feb. 26.
Muhammad said members of his group would search for Zimmerman themselves
in Maitland — where the 28-year old worked before the shooting, employees
there told the Orlando Sentinel. He declined to say when the group would
begin their search.
Muhammad said the group’s national chairman, Dr. Malik Zulu Shabaz of
Washington, D.C. is receiving donations from black entertainers and athletes
. They hope to collect $1 million by next week, Muhammad said.
The party said they would not release the names of donors nor would they
provide documentation to support the existence of donations.
The New Black Panthers announced the reward at a protest in Sanford
Saturday, the activist group’s third protest in the past two weeks over the
fatal shooting of the Miami Gardens teen.
The group called for Zimmerman’s arrest and threatened to find and
detain him if police were not willing to do so. But group members didn’t
call for the mobilization of thousands until Saturday.
Muhammed led the group in chanting “Justice for Trayvon!” and “Black
Power!”
“If the government won’t do the job, we’ll do it,” Muhammad said,
leading his group of eight party members in chants like “freedom or death”
and “justice for Trayvon” while making the iconic gesture of raising
their fists into the air.
President Obama… now might be a good time for a teachable moment.
Let’s show America how you were elected to transcend race, to unite and not
divide, America.
C’mon President Obama, say something, anything, about how this, as the
Trayvon Martin killing, is not what America is about. |
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