#TrayvonMartinStory The murder of Trayvon Martin is accurately described as a modern day lynching very similar to murder of Emmett Till: the circumstances of the case pointed clearly to murder w/ racist motives but the court system, a white supremacist institution, legalized it
Key to understand the Trayvon Martin case as existing within a long history of lynching as a form of terrorism in the south. Since the end of slavery, its purpose has been to enforce social, economic and political control of free Black populations in America.
Lynching occurs in 2 key steps: 1) the extrajudicial killing and murder of a Black person 2) the legalizing of that murder by the court system. Remember that lynching was a legalized practice for much of the early 20th century. FL's "Stand Your Ground" laws = modern lynching
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