PII Can't We All Just Get Along in Melody : Reflections on a Somber Rainbow in Action

Part II – Why Can't We All Just Get Along in Melody: Reflections on a Somber Rainbow in Action by Patricia Britt

This is part two of Why Can't We All Just Get Along in Melody, and from what I've seen this week maybe we can, provided of course if we're able to take a walk in our neighborhood to the store, and return home safely. Every day this week as I rode the streets of a relatively small Midwest city where I've seen a silent protest of children, teenagers, and adults that are in mourning for Trayvon Martin.

Many many many teenagers and adults are wearing hoodies of every description in every color of the rainbow, and then some from plaids, to stripes, to pastels to sweats, and that increases my hope for America.

I've seen sons & daughters, moms, and fathers, sisters, and brothers of every ethnic background from Asian, Latino, Arabs, Italian to Irish, and most certainly African-American children, and adults displaying their sorrow through apparel for all to see their respect for a teenager not yet 18, that they never had the chance to meet. It is my impression that clothing at this time is representative of  holding a symbolic candle of respect for a family in grief for the lost life of their son, gone far too soon.

Lets beam a positive light on blacks, and all children of this generation to minimize the chances or tragedy occurring again. Perhaps if we showed all children, and blacks in particular in the light of achievement, and striving rather than as perpetrators of some sort of irresponsibility fellow Americans would be a bit kinder to them. To show generation X as children of innovation with creative minds would be far more productive than showing them societies downfall especially when so many of them have to navigate away from bully in person, cyber bullys online, and  creepy adults they may encounter on their walk home from the store, or school that are in cars, or on foot tracking, and watching them at every turn. Please don't walk on by when you see a child in distress from an adult bent on being judge, and jury, because the child wasn't t sort an adult wanted to see in his neighborhood.

As I ride from place to place the universal sadness of youth is evident in the clothes they have selected to wear. It's a sad yet beautiful act of unity in respect, and it speaks to all who would dismiss Trayvon Martin as looking for trouble as he talked to his girlfriend on the phone just walking home from the store with his Arizona Ice Tea, and Skittles.

Trayvon Martin's passing has effected so may of us deeply as Americans. Why can't we all just get a long , and live, and let live so we don't have to see all of our children's souls wounded by stereotypical maliciousness that is evidenced in their eyes. If we lived in a perfect world in a perpetual state of justice we could all relax and strive to attain our highest goals knowing that every adult has every child's best interest at heart and wants them to do great things in life, and most importantly that they are safe even if it's just walking from point a to point b, and back home.

No ethnic group has a monopoly on stalking, or creepiness since creeps may be a neighbor, or someone you've never met before times your exit, and entry, and someone who simply sees you for the first time and is inexplicably upset at the sight of your skin in the neighborhood.

You can see the Martin family has tremendous gratitude for the short time they had with their son. Although they'd rather have him alive with them, perhaps what comes out of this tragedy will help our country heal from the profound racial brainwashing we've all been subjected to, so that we can keep kids in school and teach them the complex math & science applications that will propel the United States into the forefront of this century. Many things in life are not fair, and don't make sense like having job hundreds of thousands of job vacancies because American children aren't educated enough to fill them?

Lets get our melody together, and reflect on doing what's right for all of us to make it into the future as a united people. We all have to face reality in this youtube.com - cell phone world that cruelty exists, and attempt to treat each other better so we can pull together, and not apart.

Copyright 2012


2013 Postscript George Zimmerman, the man cleared in the killing of Trayvon Martin in July 2013 has been in the news as a hero, a highway speeder, and a soon to be divorce' since the trial ended.

2013 November : George Zimmerman is arrested after an altercation with his girlfriend at her house with yet another gun in the hands of a dangerous manipulator.

2014 Post Script Jordan Davis died having been a passenger in a car with loud music at the hands of computer entrepreneur.  Michael Brown died several feet from an authority's car, roughly 15 minutes after a strong arm theft. There are annually around 300 black & brown teen deaths from adult violence of someone of a different ethnicity.

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