On July 20, 2013, there were dozens of "Justice for Trayvon" rallies across the U.S. In St. Louis, MO hundreds of people gathered at the Thomas F. Eagleton Courthouse. One of the speakers, Dr. Robert C. Scott, pastor of Central Baptist Church, said, "There are still segments of the population where the life of a black man doesn't mean a thing." He urged participants to demand justice and to do four specific things:
1) Join a progressive organization2) Vote
3) Use the power of an economic consumer boycott
4) End pólice brutality.
CLICK HERE to read a powerful letter to Zimmerman: "You are now going to feel what it's like to be black in America"
The letter was first posted on Facebook by Alex Fraser, a young black man. It was later posted on www.dailykos.com, the link used here, where it takes on an even greater scope. Be sure to read the one sentence following the letter. What does it say about our society?
CLICK HERE to read a letter from an educator in Teaching Tolerance: "Fear and Rewriting Trayvon: an Educator's Thoughts"
This article makes me think about our Engage book on page 89, in our discussion about non-violence we learned about “The love walks”. In this story we learned about how a group of women took nonviolent action to create justice in their neighborhoods against gang conflict. These amazing women didn’t wait for someone else to take action or pass the responsibility and wait for something to happen. “Equipped only with food, musical instruments, and prayer books, seventy women and a few men walked through the streets… .” (89) All these people took a nonviolent action to stop the conflicts in their own neighborhoods and that’s amazing to think all these people changed so much.
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