skittles & iced tea

see note for reviewers.

after Trayvon’s slaughter,

people of the empire now know that

in order to buy skittles & iced tea

with dark skin & a hoodie

you must have some proof that you aren’t

packing a weapon---

but what kind of proof do you need?

perhaps a bright neon sign attached to the back of your

jacket, shouting in large letters not to shoot,

or glow in the dark pants that beg the rambunctious racists looking for a new

target to please refrain from engaging in their immediate

fantasies

for the moment ?

maybe if one walks with a representative at all times

whose look is less “threatening” &

thus they are found to be more “acceptable”

when walking at night

going to a 7-eleven---

yes,

this representative could sit down with the

caped crusader racist

whose self-appointed-neighborhood-watcher-trigger-finger

might not clench so fast

plugging a bullet into the body of a

young

unarmed

african-american

male,

if said murderous idiot

had someone explain it out on a dry erase board for them,

so that they put the murderous intent away &

go back to their hate-filled home---

no, it’s much easier for america to go on living

with some of its citizens constantly watching themselves

so as to not to be seen as acting the part that the ever-suspicious point out to be

“threatening,”

where every single movement has to be self-choreographed,

just in case there might be a copper on the corner

watching out for the white people

with an accusatory finger pointed,

whilst the other is gripping the cannon in the holster,

ready to make another martyr

of a young kid just trying to get some candy on his way

home.

Author's Note

George Zimmerman: “These assholes, they always get away.”

Sanford Police Dept. Dispatcher: “Are you following him?”
George Zimmerman: “Yeah.”
Sanford Police Dept. Dispatcher: “Ok, we don’t need you to do that.”

-From 911 call on 2/26/12, prior to Zimmerman’s shooting of Trayvon Martin


“My main message is to the parents of Trayvon Martin. You know, if I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon, and I think they are right to expect that all of us as Americans are gonna take this with the seriousness that it deserves and that we’re gonna get to the botton of exactly what happened.”

-President Obama speaking about the shooting, 3/23/12


*To sign the petition created by Martin’s parents to prosecute George Zimmerman, go to:
http://www.change.org/petitions/prosecute-the-killer-of-our-son-17-year-old-trayvon-martin

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RIP Trayvon Martin
and may this never happen to anyone ever