March 31, 2014 The Trayvon Martin issue is back in the news, via attacks on Los Angeles Laker star Kobe Bryant, and his comments on the Miami Heat wearing hoodies to honor the fallen Trayvon Martin, at a recent Miami Heat-LA Lakers game this week. I wont react to something just because Im supposed to, because Im an African-American, he said. That argument doesnt make any sense to me. So we want to advance as a society and a culture, but, say, if something happens to an African-American we immediately come to his defense? Yet you want to talk about how far weve progressed as a society? Well, weve progressed as a society, then dont jump to somebodys defense just because theyre African-American. You sit and you listen to the facts just like you would in any other situation, right? So I wont assert myself, stated Bryant. Just as the mainstream media never misses an opportunity to re-inject the divisive Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman situation into the public eye, Dignitas News Service will not waste the opportunity to bring attention to a Martin that very few have heard of, Frederick Martin Jr. Martin, 28, was cleaning the garage of his Inglewood, CA home on the evening of April 3, 2012 with his 8-year-old son and a friend when two gunmen approached on foot and began firing. Martin threw the boy to the ground and covered his body, shielding him from the bullets. He suffered two gunshot wounds and died later that night. His son escaped with a minor graze. To this date, his killers have never been found. To repeat, Martin threw his son to the ground and covered his body, shielding him from the bullets. fred martin jr2 Frederick Martin Jr. and son during happier times. Frederick Martin, Jr. can be described as nothing less than a hero. A true hero. He is a man to be emulated and did something that all of us who are parents hope we are brave enough to do as well. Growing up in the trappings of the city streets of Los Angeles, Martin did all the right things. A diligent student and obedient son, he became the first in his family to graduate college and was working at Kaiser Permanente at the time of his death. He was a dedicated father, whose commitment to his son was evidenced even to the last moment and act of his natural life. His immediate reaction to the gunshots was to shield his son from the bullets, sacrificing his very life for the son he loved so much. The case of Frederick Martin Jr. is still unsolved and barely registered a blip on the mainstream media radar. The reason that much of America has never heard of this brave and honorable father is that there was nothing to gain for them, or the left wing rabble-rousers who took such delight in exploiting the Trayvon Martin situation for political and ratings gains. According to witnesses, Frederick Martins assailants were, like Martin, black Americans. While the vast majority (over 90%) of black victims of crime are victimized by fellow black people, it is the rare occurrence of white-on-black crime which causes the media and the left-wing intelligentsia and activist base to salivate with delight. It provides them the opportunity to increase ratings, increase fund raising, increase their political clout among the people and to sow even more distrust and fear between black and white Americans. For Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and the powers within the Democrat Party, cases like Trayvon Martin are ones to covet, while cases such as the Frederick Martin Jr. case are ones to avoid. Read more: http://dignitasnews.com/his-name-is-not-trayvon-the-slaughtered-forgotten-martin/ It's plain to see that the Progressive Socialist race baiters (we all know their names) have no time for victims of the Frederick Martin killing. Why because it was a Black on Black killing. This all ties in with the Progressive Marxist message to black Americans, one of you CANT overcome without the guiding, benevolent hand of an ever growing bureaucratic apparatus to oversee nearly all aspects of life.
Notice all the replies to this thread? Pitiful. And if you say too much it will be deleted as race baiting. Incredible. Free speech you ask?
Wow! What a story! No, I had never heard of Frederick Martin. Never heard Sharpton or Jackson speak of him... and hope the day comes when his killers are caught and executed like they did him..... Had heard of the statement Bryant had made..... one sensible dude..
What really gets me is the fact that the race baiting hypocrites have actually maligned and distorted the teachings of Martin Luther King Jr. and vilify anyone that tries to apply his teachings. Is it any wonder that the hypocritical race baiting Left rejects MLK's statement that a man should be judged on the content of his character and not the content his melanin? When a person says, judge me by those that surround me, should we take those words as fact and hold him to his words and truly judge him in that light?
This story is very revealing. A truly heroic black person is forgotten, while a piece of (*)(*)(*)(*) disgrace of a black person is idolized. Who really has the best interests of black Americans at heart? No one in the media. Not professional rabble rousers like Jesse Jackson. Who does? Bill Cosby, IMO, to name one.
Bill Cosby? Isn't he vilified by the Progressive Left like Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell, Alan West, and Dr. Ben Carson?
