Rhetoric Race and Religion
On July 13, 2013, a jury declared George Zimmerman, Not Guilty, in the death of Trayvon Martin. The February 26, 2012 killing of Trayvon Martin sparked world wide interest. We collected many of the articles and posts on the tragedy here in one of our first “R3 Readers.” While the trial commenced, we collected editorials and essays associated with the trial here. Now we here at Rhetoric Race and Religion thought we would collect some of the editorials and essays responding to the verdict. We ask that if you come across some articles please share them with us on our Facebook page or you can tweet us @examinereligion. Enjoy.
1. My Lament for the Young Black Males- Peace Trayvon
2. Zimmerman Prosecutor Angela Corey’s Smile Is Under Fire
3. We Should all Be Terrified
4. For Trayvon Martin, is there no justice?
5. No Innocence Left to Kill: Racism, Injustice and Explaining America to My Daughter
6. Why the Zimmerman Jury Failed Us
7. 100 Young Black Activists Respond to George Zimmerman Verdict
8. Trayvon Martin Verdict: Don’t Tell Black People Not to “Riot”
9. “Justice Denied”
10. GEORGE ZIMMERMAN, NOT GUILTY: BLOOD ON THE LEAVES
11. WHAT GEORGE ZIMMERMAN CAN DO NOW
12. White Supremacy Acquits George Zimmerman
13. Armed Racial Entitlement: Zimmerman’s Acquittal Comes as No Surprise
14. A Reflection on the #Zimmerman Verdict and Traditional Eschatology
15. The #ZimmermanTrial and The Verdict for the Church
16. My Lament for the Young Black Males- Peace #Trayvon
17. Trayvon Martin’s Killing Reverberates In North Carolina
18. The U.S. v. Trayvon Martin: How the System Worked
19. The Zimmerman trial’s ‘teachable’ lesson: Black boys beware
20. For George Zimmerman, the system worked
21. The Trayvon Martin Killing and the Myth of Black-on-Black Crime
22. Jason Riley: Race, Politics and the Zimmerman Trial
23. The Whole System Failed Trayvon Martin
24. Whit
e womanhood, protectionism, and complicity in injustice for Trayvon
25. Race, bias and the Zimmerman jury
26. Race, White Womanhood, and Trayvon Martin
27. Trayvon Martin: From Lament to Rallying Cry
28. White supremacy, meet black rage
29. The Real Difference in the Trayvon Martin Case: A Gun Changed Everything
30. A Prescription for Life in the Face of Injustice… #TrayvonMartin
31. Trayvon Martin and the Irony of American Justice
32. #zimmermantrial: The Persistent Devaluation of Black Bodies
33. The #ZimmermanTrial and The Verdict for the Church
34. Florida’s Problems with Racial Politics Go Far Beyond Trayvon Martin
35. Trayvon Martin Did Not Have to Die
36. Birds of a Feather: Florida Prosecutors and George Zimmerman
37. A Lamentation for Trayvon Martin, Our Nation and Ourselves
38. Black boys denied the right to be young
39. No Justice for Trayvon: White Women in the Jury Box
40. Trayvon Martin and I Ain’t Shit
41. White Female Jurors and Florida Justice
42. Racism vs. reality
43. Brother to Brother: My Reaffirmation of Pride in Black Boys Post-George Zimmerman Trial
44. Rachel Jeantel On Trayvon Martin: ‘He Had Heart’
45. Trayvon Martin and racism in 21st Century America
46. Justice for Trayvon Martin: Why Punishing His Killer Isn’t Enough
47. Why I Decided to Break My Silence
48. Trayvon Martin, Emmett Till and the shadow of Jim Crow justice
49. The Cancer of Racism Thrives in America
50. Why Were Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman Held to Two Different Standards of Justice?
51. When “stand your ground” fails
52. Fear and Consequences: George Zimmerman and the Protection of White Womanhood
53. We are NOT all Trayvon: Challenging Anti-Black Racism in POC Communities
54. The Zimmerman Verdict and the Resurrection of the Old Jim Crow
55. Georgey Had a Gun: One Woman’s Thoughts on Race and Racialized Thinking 56. Trayvon, Race and American Democracy
57. Why the Right Cheers Zimmerman Verdict
58. LESSONS ON RACE FROM GEORGE ZIMMERMAN
59. The Zimmerman Mind-Set
60. Faith in Values: What’s Race Got to Do With It?
61. More than Faith: For Trayvon Martin, a Promise to Act
62. Trayvon Martin: A son of America, a child of God
63. Ramadan Reflection: On Faith and Trayvon
64. The Christian Witness of Trayvon’s Mother
65. An Open Letter to Juror B-37 in the Zimmerman Trial
66. White privilege and Trayvon Martin
67. TRGGR Radio: Trayvon, Zimmerman, and Post-Traumatic Verdict Disorder
68. Jews and Trayvon Martin
69. Trayvon Martin and the Irony of American Justice
70. Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman, Race & Faith
71. The Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman Tragedy
72. George Zimmerman killed the presumption of innocence
73. What Is The ‘Word Of God’ On Zimmerman Verdict?
74. Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman and the Founders’ Faith in Grand Juries
75. Sybrina Fulton’s Journey of Faith in Seeking Justice for Trayvon Martin
76. The Best Sermon About Trayvon That You Will Hear
77. Expressions of faith: Trayvon Martin
78. How Faith and Forgiveness Can Come in the Wake of Trayvon Martin
79. The Zimmerman Case and the Credibility of the Church on Racism
80. The #Zimmerman Verdict: We Need More than Eat, Pray, Love
81. A Call to Action and Prayer at the #JusticeforTrayvon Rally
82. President Obama Speaks on the #ZimmermanTrial
83. My #Theological Necessity for the Black Church-I Wrestle #zimmermantrial
84. When Your #Church Is Silent
85. Asian Grassroots Statement for Justice for Trayvon Martin
86. Is George Zimmerman White? (And Does It Matter?)
87. By Faith
88. The Post-Zimmerman Poison Pill
89. A Message to Trayvon Martin Sympathizers
90. The Zimmerman Case and the Credibility of the Church on Racism
91. A Hispanic response to the Trayvon Martin verdict
92. Think Trayvon’s Record Said Somet
hing About His Character?
93. CONFESSION: I Am George Zimmerman
94. Christian Atheism: The Only Response Worth its Salt to the Zimmerman Verdict
95. Obama, Trayvon and the Problem That Won’t Be Named
96. White churches uncommonly quiet after Zimmerman verdict
97. Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman: the painful paradoxes of race
98. On President Obama’s Remarks, Trayvon Martin and the George Zimmerman Trial
99. George Zimmerman never saw Trayvon Martin
100. I killed Trayvon Martin
!01. The Trayvon Martin Case From the Perspective of a Black Teen
102. Huffpost: The Trayvon Martin Case
103. Trayvon Martin Dedication Poem
104. The Killing of #TrayvonMartin: A Tragedy?
105. Faith Leader sermons and reflections on Trayvon Martin Verdict
106. The Zimmerman Case and the Credibility of the Church on Racism
107. STAND YOUR GROUND: An Old-School Primer
108. Civil Discourse, Democracy & the Trayvon Martin Case
109. George Zimmerman and the myth of post-racial America
110. Rhetoric, race and reality in America
111. Lament From a White Father
112. God Help America: A Sermonic Response to the Zimmerman Trial Verdict
113. The Trayvon Martin Case and the Law, But Whose Law?
114. Zimmerman and Trayvon: Is There a Christian Way Forward?
115. The Problem With the Marissa Alexander–George Zimmerman Comparison
116. Zimmerman Trial: Trayvon Martin was not Emmett Till
117. Focus attention on gangs, not Trayvon
118. Hey Cowards, Let’s Have a Conversation
119. The Fire This Time:James Baldwin on George Zimmerman
120. Fruitvale Station #FruitvaleStation #TrayvonMartin
121. Dont Ask Me How I Am
122. Trayvon Martin’s Hijacked Legacy
123. THE VERDICT
124. Johnny Manziel and Trayvon Martin: (Almost) Nothing in Common
125. Racism and the Bible
126. Race, Credibility, Communication and Evidence in the Zimmerman Trial, and Beyond
127. Trayvon Martin saga could have been different
128. THE TRAYVON MARTIN EFFECT AND MANAGING RACE ISSUES IN THE WORKPLACE
129. The Monsterization of Trayvon Martin
130. Justice for Trayvon Martin: Fight the Zimmerman Mindset
131. What does Trayvon Martin have to do with American Religious History?
132. If White Supremacy Is God, Count Me as an Atheist: Religion & the #GeorgeZimmerman trial
133.FORGET THE OLD SOUTH: TRAYVON MARTIN WAS NO EMMETT TILL
134. Trayvon Martin and Implicit Bias
135. Remembering Trayvon Martin
136. Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman through the filter of the parable of the Good Samaritan
137. We all failed Trayvon Martin
138. Pastor Sam Storms Talks About George Zimmerman: Is Racism Blasphemy?
139. You are Trayvon
140. Profiling Trayvon…Again
141. Rap imagery, Trayvon Martin and why Bill O’Reilly is half right
142. Oprah and Beyonce Are Wrong: Trayvon Martin is Not Emmett Till
143. George Zimmerman and the Price of Infamy
144. Trayvon Martin case a travesty of justice
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