Carla Gomez's List: Articles for Class

• "Trayvon is the Emmitt Till of our generation," said event co-chair Chris Sullivan. He's referring to the Mississippi 14-year-old who was beaten to death in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman. 

• gathered for events in Columbia, South Carolina, Washington, D.C. and Chicago Saturday.
• Martin was shot dead
• ooked suspicious. Zimmerman followed him and an altercation ensued.

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• "It's a preparatory explanation and a warning to let them know what's out there for them," Britt said of the discussion many black parents have with their children, especially sons. For her, "The Talk" was especially meaningful because as a young man her brother Darrell was shot and killed by a white police officer in Gary, Ind., "under circumstances that were inexplicable and that to this day don't make sense to me."
• Those sons told Steve of what it's like to be young black men and feel the need to deal with police officers and others in authority in a much different way than white friends might. "They don't know the reality that we lived," Darrell said, of how his white friends feel they can speak up and challenge authority in a way he can't.

• The shooting of a young teen in Florida three weeks ago is every parent’s nightmare — what might happen to my child when he’s out of my sight? And for African American parents, this scenario is even more terrifying.

• As I explained it, the Code goes like this:
• "It requires a sixth sense that not everyone needs to have," Dotson said.
• Dotson still has fears about the safety of his children, "about them understanding who they are and where they are, and how to respond to the environment they are in.

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• I can’t write about the untimely and unseemly death of this young African-American man.  I am, after all, the mother of two African-American boys– boys who, like Trayvon Martin, love basketball and lemonade and Skittles. Boys who wear hoodies when it’s cold; wear hoodies when it’s not; wear hoodies because hoodies are cool. Boys who frequent gated and affluent communities. Boys who are often on foot.

   

  I can’t write about this because it hits too close to home.

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