Editorial
St. Trayvon Martin
To beatify someone – in the Catholic Church sense – is to recognize that they need to go to heaven so that they can intercede to God on the behalf of those who pray their name.
After his interlocutor and executioner was acquitted, Trayvon Martin, the 17 year old black kid from Florida was on the lips of many a black person. That George Zimmerman was acquitted was not a surprise. The case was bungled up from Day 1.
And in a classic case of ‘Justice Delayed is Justice Denied,’ the perversion of the law as it regards African Americans bubbled up to the surface. For example, the medical examiner could not even remember doing an autopsy on Trayvon Martin, despite the fact that he had his notes right there with him.
Could it be that he does so many autopsies on black kids that have been shot through the heart?
But God bless Trayvon Martin’s broken heart, we all say today.
As an all-male, all-black and all-immigrant editorial board, we have no choice but to empathize with the Martin Family. We are also outraged because each one of us has to grapple with elements of racial profiling in this North America we live in.
Some of us have been placed in situations where something was going to go wrong – and it has, with varying degrees of consequence. Either way, what emerges is that we all relate to Trayvon Martin. We can all feel that bullet rip through our system just as we can all feel the burden those 6 white women felt as jurors on Florida vs. George Zimmerman.
