I think we should have a moment of silence for Trayvon Martin.
Wow. Did he have any idea he would cause so much ruckus? I wish you had a better and more of a life and it hadn't have ended so tragically. I wish your life hadn't been cut so short. Your life is a sad story since, wasn't, until it was in the formative years.
As a parent, my heart bleeds for the coulda and shoulda's
Parents - hold it together for your kids.
I think perhaps a big part of the problem is that Trayvon, like so many people, had no sense at all of the consequences of his actions.
One day before I moved away, my children and a friend and I were in one of the small towns around here. We were passing the city hall which had the jail in the basement. My friend says, let's take them in to see t he jail. So, we did. The kids were not adolescents, but almost. We went in and asked the man at the front if we could have a tour. He took our purses and locked them up and then took us through the jail. In the kitchen, the cook gave us all a cupcake. It was a decent cupcake. When we went back outside, my son said, 'Now I know why they call it the gutter.'
When I was in high school, one of my teachers took his class on a tour of the state hospital. As I look back, it strikes me as strange that in that day our mentally ill were treated worse than our criminals. I've seen big changes in the treatment of mental illness, but we aren't where we need to be yet. Too bad all the money this trial consumed couldn't have been spent to help people who deserved it instead of trying to avenge the justifiable killing of a mugger.