LESSONS FROM THE TRAYVON MARTIN TRAGEDY

A nation divided on every front!

The tears of  Trayvon Martin's parents may have publicly dried up, however, the excruciating pain from loss  of their teenage son, will remain with them forever. Too often, too many of us forget, that the taking of another person's life is forbidden by God. Have we forgotten the commandment which states: 'thou shalt not kill'. Giving  life and taking life, is the business of God alone.  The Commandment of God is pelucid to those of us, who, accept and embrace the Word as being truth, for God cannot lie. The person who hastened the demise of Trayvon Martin, is certainly not a child of God, for believers stand firmly on the Word which calls on believers, 'not to  lean on their own understanding'. Trayvon Martin left  the home of his family with only good intentions on his mind on that fateful day, and he carried out those intentions at the corner store where he purchased a few items and paid for them. Something all of us do each and every day. But Trayvon Martin was in a place, where, at least one citizen believed he hadn't the right to be, because of his attire-he wore a hoodie in weather that called for one. The person who hastened young Martin's demise, a gentleman by the name of George Zimmeman, perhaps, was filled with an overjealous protective fervor for the rest of the community and decided it was his bounden duty, to stalk Trayvon Martin and hasten his demise because he didn't seem to fit the mold of the society. Unfortunately! This sterotypical behavior  happens all the time in too many States. How could such a thing happen? I asked myself in this time and season in a country that loudly boasts of being the bastion of freedom and democracy. But then I remembered,Trayvon Martin had ventured in a place on that fateful night, where the powers that be, had given citizens the right, to kill anyone whom they perceived to be a threat to their person-the actual law is described as 'stand your ground'. Trayvon Martin broke no law, he molested no one, he robbed no one, he shot on one, but  citizen George Zimmerman, armed with the law of 'Stand your ground', immediately came to the conclusion, that  Trayvon Martin's clothes, posed a threat to his life. Trayvon Martin troubled no one that fateful night. He was returning home from a corner store where he had gone to legally purchase a few items, not to rob anyone. He never got back home alive and the person responsible for his death, was set free by a jury which must have come from Mars. Go figure....when a colored person is involved, the situation takes on a different complexion.