Why Trayvon?: Unmet Expectations & Mass Movements.

I’m seeing that there are many people confused and/or annoyed that the Trayvon Martin murder is generating such attention and provoking national responses, both symbolic and active. I’ll try to explain once more: Individuals keep quoting the homicide statistics occurring with Black shooters and Black victims, or instances when the police kill Black youth and get away with it; and the fact they don’t garner the level of...

Ripe for Revolution.

The government told the Black community, in the racial era of the 60s that if we continued to rebel against the government, kept disrupting the US economy and hurting its international standing by rioting, and seeking to link with international revolutionary and decolonization struggles in African, Asia, and South America; that we’d end up with mass incarceration, rising violence and homicides, and continue to be impoverished and...