WORDS OF COMFORT
In 2012, a 17-year-old African-American boy Trayvon Martin was fatally shot by a Sanford, Florida volunteer neighbourhood watcher George Zimmerman.
On the evening of February 26th, Trayvon went to a convenience store and purchased candy and juice, as he returned, Zimmerman called the police and told them that Trayvon looked suspicious.
There was an altercation moments later and Zimmerman shot the unarmed teen in the chest. He died.
Trayon Martin’s mother Sybrina Fulton wrote a heartbreaking letter to the family of Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old, who was shot at least six times by a police officer.
She begins with, “I wish I had a word of automatic comfort but I don’t. I wish I could say that it will be alright on a certain or specific day but I can’t. I wish that all of the pain that I have endured could possibly ease some of yours but it won’t. What I can do for you is what has been done for me: pray for you then share my continuing journey as you begin yours.”
Sybrina who also experienced a devastating time after her son’s death continues, saying:
“I hate that you and your family must join this exclusive yet growing group of parents and relatives who have lost loved ones to senseless gun violence. Of particular concern is that so many of these gun violence cases involve children far too young. But Michael is much more than a police/gun violence case; Michael is your son. A son that barely had a chance to live. Our children are our future so whenever any of our children – black, white, brown, yellow, or red – are taken from us unnecessarily, it causes a never-ending pain that is unlike anything I could have imagined experiencing.
SOURCE: huffingtonpost.com
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