A modern day lynching took place in Sanford Florida in February 2012.
And the perpetrator walked free.
In 1906, a young black man named Ed Johnson was murdered by a lynch mob in his home town of Chattanooga, Tennessee.
And NO ONE was ever held accountable.
"In 1906, the lynching of a young black man named Ed Johnson was a public spectacle in the heart of this Smoky Mountain city. Just before he was hanged, he said to the crowd of white men, women and children who were watching: ''God bless you all. I am innocent.''
On Friday, almost 100 years later, in a downtown courtroom here packed with a somber crowd of black and white men, women and children, and with television news cameras recording every moment, Mr. Johnson was vindicated."
-New York Times
For many years the NAACP would display a banner from it's headquarters in New York after each lynching.
I think it's appropriate to display another.
A 25 week old fetus would have greater protection under the law than Trayvon Martin.
The people who applaud the outcome of the Zimmerman verdict would be outraged if Zimmerman were responsible for shooting a 25 week old fetus. But a 17 year old black man?
NO OUTRAGE. The outrage from this group is that Zimmerman was charged in the first place.
It is sad that a 25 week old fetus has more protections than a 17 year old black man in America today.
But like I've always said, Regressive Republicans think life begins at conception and ends at birth.
Especially if you are black in America. If Trayvon Martin was a 25 week old fetus, George Zimmerman would have been convicted.
You hear the Religious Right and the Regressive Right go on and on adinfinitum about protecting a 20 week old fetus.
Laws peddled by Regressive Republicans abound and are on the agenda in every Regressive Republican State in America.
One thing I've observed in the past 10 years or so and that observation is this:
Don't try to change a Regressive. Ain't gonna happen. It's ingrained in the psyche of the Regressive.
Jesus Christ, the son of God couldn't change Regressives of his day and the Regressives hung him on a cross.
So what chance have I.
A 17 year old black man is murdered and the good folk who would protect the rights of
the fetus before the fetus is a flesh and bone human have NOTHING to say when the
fetus as a flesh and bone human is murdered.
Except be outraged that charges against the murderer are ever brought up.
This is tragic, but is the very reason I find the Regressive Right comical.
Protect a 20 week old fetus and applaud the murder of a 17 year old black man.
Indeed a tragedy.
But not surprising.