(NY Times) In the Eye of a Firestorm–The Trayvon Martin Shooting Prompts a review of Ideals

With five weeks’ passage, the fateful encounter between a black youth who wanted to go to college and a Hispanic man who wanted to be a judge has polarized the nation.

And, now this modest central Florida community finds its name being mentioned with Selma and Birmingham on a civil rights list held sacred in black American culture, while across the country, the parsing of the case has become cacophonic and political, punctuated by pleas for tolerance, words of hatred, and spins from the left and right.

Read it all and also note The Events Leading to the Shooting of Trayvon Martin.

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One comment on “(NY Times) In the Eye of a Firestorm–The Trayvon Martin Shooting Prompts a review of Ideals

  1. paradoxymoron says:

    I’m unable to tell, from reviewing his tweets, whether he wanted to study the humanities, engineering, or the sciences, when he got to college. Read No_limit_Nigga’s tweets, and his discursions upon the width of women’s birth canals, principles of dispute resolution, here:
    http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/26/the-daily-caller-obtains-trayvon-martins-tweets/#ixzz1qGztV3LT