Stand Your Ground-The New Excuse For Lynching Black People

Today is the 2 year anniversary of the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, a Florida Teen who was stalked, hunted and slaughtered like an animal, because Florida and several other Racists and Hateful States, (Code Name Red States), have what is known as "Stand Your Ground Laws"

Other states that have this law or some variation of this law are as follows:

Alabama

Arizona

Florida

Georgia

Indiana

Kentucky

Louisiana

Mississippi

Montana

Nevada

New Hampshire

Oklahoma

Pennsylvania

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

All you have to do is see someone Black, (I don't know if anyone is paying attention to the fact that thus far, all of the national cases that have been blasted across the airwaves by the media has involved the shooting of young Black Men), and then claim that you only killed them because they were in fear for your life or severe bodily harm.

Has Anyone Noticed This?

These states have "A Duty To Retreat Law", which is the law that most of us grew up knowing as, "Just Walk Away".

In these states you cannot just murder someone and then supply your own testimony that supports the fact that you "Thought" you were in fear of your life.

Now in the interest of full disclosure, I am not a Peace Sign Waiving, Unrealistic Liberal who is totally opposed to guns because I believe that people like Ted Nugent and Sarah Palin are going to give up their weapons in the name of love, or that I can stop a bullet with the love that's in my heart.

As a matter of fact, I think that Maryland State Law is on the other side of the extreme-If faced by a person who is an absolute threat to your life, because they may be coming towards you with a gun or a knife or are threatening bodily harm to you, your family or your property, Maryland Law only offers you 2 options: Let them kill you and or your family or go to prison for protecting yourself and them. In other words, Maryland has NO! Self Defense Law

And this too is a problem that needs to be addressed in Annapolis some day soon-I hope.

This is the opposite of the insanity of the Stand Your Ground Law, and can also be considered STUPID!

Maine

Maryland

Massachusetts

Missouri

Minnesota

Nebraska

New Jersey

New York

North Dakota

Ohio

Rhode Island

Wisconsin

Wyoming

It should also be important to note that the Stand Your Ground Law does not work for Black People who are involve in similar situations: Case in point-Marissa Alexander of Jacksonville, Fla., received a 20-years prison sentence, Friday, May 11, 2012, for firing warning shots against her allegedly abusive husband. She just shot a hole in the ceiling. She killed no one. Here husband's abuse had been legally documented on several occassions, but yet the judged turned down her claim of Stand Your Ground and sentenced here to 20 years in prison for shooting a warning shot into the ceiling to discourage her violent husband from hurting or killing her.

John McNeil, 46, was convicted in November 2006 of the shooting death of a man who McNeil said had threatened his son and refused to leave his property. He was serving a life sentence at Macon State Prison for the crime, but for years, McNeil's wife, Anita, and his supporters, including the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP, spoke out for his release, saying he was wrongfully prosecuted because of his race. John McNeil is black. The man he shot, Brian Epp, was white.

He was finally released from prison after 6 years of incarceration this month. But not before he lost the woman who stood by him and gave her all to seek justice for her husband. She died days before he was released after succumbing to caner, which she had been suffering from the entire time that she was fighting to get her husband set free for protecting his home and family.

And let us not forget the Michael Dunn Murder Trial where a White Man Michael Dunn shot and killed 17 year old Jordan Davis at a gas station in Florida, because he didn't like the volume of the music which he was playing in his truck during daylight hours.

He shot at the vehicle 10 times and their were 3 other youths in the truck who miraculously were not killed.

However, Jordan Davis was struck 3 times and killed.

Dunn was convicted and is looking at facing the rest of his life in jail.

But not for the murder of Jordan Davis.

That charge hung the jury.

Michel Dunn is going to jail for shooting the truck that Davis and 3 other youths were in.

Hidden Message: This Black Child's life was worthless, but the truck was not.

Is there anyone who is reading this that does not recognize the fact that Jim Crow is alive and well and has changed his name to John Crow, Esquire, Congressman,Senator or Representative and has replaced the sheet and hood with a 3 piece suit?

And does anybody reading this think that these lynchings, which are too numerous to cover here fully are going to stop without a direct response from those of us who are opposed to these Racist, Hatred, and Murderous Actions?

I can assure you based on hundreds of years of American and World History that they will not!

It is up to us to stop them from destroying all of the progress that those before us fought and died for by the millions.

Where We At People??????

And even more importantly, What We Gonna Do???????