Dear Troublemakers, February 5th would have been Trayvon Martin’s 28th birthday. It’s a strange occasion to mark as someone who did not know Trayvon, and yet his life and death has had such a profound impact on my life. I still remember the first time I heard his name. I was standing in my Chicago apartment, walking past my bedroom where my husband had the tv on. I peeked inside when I noticed a huge rally on the screen and Al Sharpton at a podium. Well known in the Black community for uplifting racial injustices, I paused when I heard her voice, wondering what happened. As I stepped inside to listen, my husband filled me in. A child was killed. The aggressor hasn’t even been arrested. This whole rally is just to convince authorities to at least charge the aggressor. Forgetting whatever it was I was about to go do, I instead sat on the bed, staring at the screen.
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Dear Troublemakers, February 5th would have been Trayvon Martin’s 28th birthday. It’s a strange occasion to mark as someone who did not know Trayvon, and yet his life and death has had such a profound impact on my life. I still remember the first time I heard his name. I was standing in my Chicago apartment, walking past my bedroom where my husband had the tv on. I peeked inside when I noticed a huge rally on the screen and Al Sharpton at a podium. Well known in the Black community for uplifting racial injustices, I paused when I heard her voice, wondering what happened. As I stepped inside to listen, my husband filled me in. A child was killed. The aggressor hasn’t even been arrested. This whole rally is just to convince authorities to at least charge the aggressor. Forgetting whatever it was I was about to go do, I instead sat on the bed, staring at the screen.