03.30.12. On Trayvon…or On Being Young, Gifted, and Black

Over a month later, and still the man who gunned down a child roams free…and our legal system does nothing. For at any given moment, when I think about my little brother, who looks exactly like Trayvon, I tremble in fear at the thought of someone gunning him down because of the color of his skin. And when I think of all the many people and pressures that have already tried to destroy us because of this…all the other Trayvons  whose wrongful death’s have been–are still being–swept under the rug–I can think only how sometimes the injustice in this world is too much to be believed.

What can we do to not let the disillusionment and pain, the anger and frustration, eat away and destroy us?

Please read the article I wrote to find out more on Trayvon’s wrongful death….it’s what I could do, to begin.