Angels

Here we go. Its Oscar all over again...Oscar who???

Oscar Grant...Who is he???

He is Oscar Grant...The Third.

Murdered in cold blood in a train station because the cop 'mistook his pistol for his taser'

Now he is dead

There is no more Oscar Grant III...There is no more Trayvon Martin

Justice does not prevail in the case of these men and so many more just like them 

These angels die and we mourn and life goes on with killers serving little to no time...NO TIME!!!

Yep Zimmerman was found 'Not Guilty' but that doesn't mean he was not guilty

He was...

         of killing an angel sent to us 

And we shed tears for a soldier lost, for a fallen angel

But there is nothing we can do...

               'Justice Has Been Served'

Or has it???

They tell us it is justice, yet and still, a murderer walks away as if nothing happened

He is free...

        as free as he can be when the world is outraged...

                                when he is the most hated man in America

He can enjoy that 'freedom' he's been given because while he may be afraid...

Trayvon Martin is dead

I'll take fear over death any day

But isn't that how this started???

A man was afraid of a young black boy

and the boy died...

          Maybe...

                  Maybe...

                        Maybe...

                                     We don't want this man living in fear...

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