I doubt it will surprise a single reader of the blog to discover that the late Trayvon Martin has been confirmed to have been a criminal thug rather than an innocent, Skittles-loving young man who was a good boy who dindu nuffin and was gwan to college when he was shot and killed.
To uncover this staggering fraud, Gilbert did what reporters used to do. He immersed himself in the milieu that produced Trayvon Martin. He mastered the patois of urban black Miami. He reviewed the thousands of text messages, tweets, Facebook and Instagram postings sent and received by Martin and his friends. He interviewed George Zimmerman and heard, from the only person who knew, Martin’s final words, words that revealed the cause of Martin’s tragic downward spiral.
Gilbert did some serious shoe leather reporting as well. He visited all the relevant Miami-area high schools, the neighborhoods where Martin and his friends hung out, the streets of Miami’s Little Haiti, and the town community where Martin died.
At the end of his research, Gilbert knew Trayvon Martin better than his parents did, literally. As their deposition revealed, they had no idea how Martin’s life had descended into a violent mix of street fighting, guns, drugs, burglary, and sex. Although both parents made good incomes, their separate lives created an abyss where a home should have been, and their once promising son fell straight to the bottom of it.
Unwilling to accept their own responsibility for his demise, they took the bait promised by the family attorneys and sweetened by the media and projected their guilt on to George Zimmerman. Although an Obama supporter and civil rights activist, the half-Hispanic Zimmerman proved to be just white enough to play the “racist” killer role in the unholy melodrama that followed.
I blame the welfare state for destroying the black family. Democrats are the real racists. Vibrancy is our strength. I don’t see color, I judge an individual by the content of his character rather than the collection of his genetic code even when I haven’t met him and know nothing about him. The sad thing is that if only Trayvon’s parents had been married, middle-class African-Americans, this tragedy could have been averted….