On the Murder of Trayvon Martin
Statement by the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA
On
February 26, 2012, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin went out to buy some
snacks at the nearby 7-Eleven. George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch
captain in a small gated community in Sanford, Florida, was driving
around in his SUV.
Zimmerman
called 911, saying Martin looked "real suspicious"--i.e., he was a
young Black male, walking around in a hoodie. After the 911 dispatcher
told Zimmerman not to pursue the youth, Zimmerman followed Trayvon
Martin, got out of his car and then confronted Martin. Zimmerman was
carrying a 9-millimeter handgun. Trayvon Martin was carrying a bag of
Skittles and a can of iced tea. There was yelling, then a gunshot.
Trayvon Martin lay face down in the grass with a fatal bullet wound to
the chest. Zimmerman was taken into custody, questioned and released. To
this day, he has not been arrested and charged with any crime.
It
is very good and very important that people, not only in Sanford,
Florida, but all over the country, are outraged by the murder of Trayvon
Martin and are making their outrage known in many different and
creative forms of protest. It is also important that, in connection with
the murder of Trayvon Martin, the memory of Emmett Till--wantonly
murdered by white supremacists decades ago--is being raised to express
the fact that people have seen this go on for far too long and will not
stand by to see it happen yet again.
At
the same time, the fact that yet another Emmett Till moment can
arise--that yet another outrage of this kind can take place--today, more
than 50 years after the original Emmett Till lynching, and that this
murder of Trayvon Martin is not an isolated incident but only the latest
of an endless chain of such acts that are perpetrated, condoned and
covered up by the powers-that-be, shows very powerfully that, this time
around, we must not settle for anything less than stopping this, once
and for all--we must build a movement to really and finally put an end
to these and countless other outrages that spew forth from this system,
by sweeping away this system through revolution. This is deadly serious
and we must take this up very seriously.
Revolutionary Communist Party, USA
March 23, 2012
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