Tag Archives: George Zimmerman

King and ‘the Gangstahs’

What happens to a dream deferred? Ask anyone. We’ve all had dreams deferred. Langston Hughes asked if a dream deferred festers like a sore — and then runs, or does it stink like rotten meat, or sag like a heavy load. What he led up to in his poem Harlem was that a dream deferred […]

Let Us Now Praise the Jury

George Zimmerman’s best defense may have been his fearful baby face. He was accused of trying to be a hero or a wanna-be cop. He looked like an ordinary man, scared and tired of being scared. “They always get away,” he told the 911 dispatcher, reporting what he thought might be a suspect in a […]

Doing the Wrong Thing

The more we talk about race the less we are allowed to say – at least some of us. “If the city of Portland can’t fix this, it’s going to be a long, hot summer,” Jo Ann Hardesty (formerly known as state Rep. Jo Ann Bowman) declared at one of the recent protests against the […]

The Man With The Megaphone

When black men gathered at Self Enhancement Inc. to talk about Trayvon Martin and how to improve their families, it was a segregated affair. The men met in the auditorium. The dozen or so women who showed up were sent to a classroom. A woman leading the discussion for the females assured them that the […]

Wild Shots in the Dark

A man hears a noise in his yard, grabs a rifle, steps outside and sees someone running away in the dark. The man fires four times and kills 19-year-old Daniel Moore. You’ve never heard of Daniel Moore. He was white. He was walking home from a friend’s house one evening where he had been playing […]