Tell me, friend, where were you when America reminded you that your life was disposable?
— Saeed Jones (@theferocity) July 14, 2013
All the black people who are surprised right now, please raise your hand. Even indignation is a white privilege.
— tressie mc (@tressiemcphd) July 14, 2013
Disgusted. Heartbroken for Trayvon's family. It's still open season on Black boys and men in 2013 America. Dangerous just for existing.
— Grace (@graceishuman) July 14, 2013
it hurts SO much. but my prayer now is that we make sure this means something. remember it, swim in its length. let it mobilize us.
— Brokey McPoverty (@brokeymcpoverty) July 14, 2013
Black children are not seen as children in the eyes of this society. They're are seen as problems in the making.
— Sister Outsider (@FeministGriote) July 14, 2013
Jesus. They killed our child and blamed him - and us - for it.
— Wil Gafney (@WilGafney) July 14, 2013
I expected, I wanted more from my country. As a black woman, I can only produce black children. But I can't do that in good conscience.
— Miss SoLo DoughLow (@whimsikal) July 14, 2013
At 26, with 2 degrees, an honest job, no involvement in the legal system EVER, I can be killed and turned into a predator as a Black Man.
— Mr. Brown (@Ntuitive_PHIve) July 14, 2013
When I think of this trial, I think of inequality in every aspect of the "justice" system- policing/arrests/jury selection/sentencing...
— Proteas & Magnolias (@ArriannaMarie) July 14, 2013
Understand the collective mourning: This isn't only for #TrayvonMartin. We're mourning the very idea that we're human in the U.S. It's dead.
— Elon James White (@elonjames) July 14, 2013
For the last 24 hours, I swear the phrase "unforgivable blackness" has been ringing in the air at a pitch only black boys can hear.
— Saeed Jones (@theferocity) July 14, 2013
The fundamental danger of an acquittal is not more riots, it is more George ZImmermans.
— jay smooth (@jsmooth995) July 13, 2013
White people & all ppl who don't identify as black, who are trying to unlearn your fear of black bodies, train each other. Vigilantly.
— dream hampton (@dreamhampton) July 14, 2013
This is the state of race in America. This is it. Look closely.
— Grace (@graceishuman) July 14, 2013
A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping. Rachel is weeping for her children.
— Wil Gafney (@WilGafney) July 14, 2013
Drew G.I. Hart: Pain Medicine: Trayvon, Simon of Cyrene, and Jesus
Black Youth Project: 100 Young Black Activists Respond to George Zimmerman Verdict
Enuma Okora: The mother of all grief (Washington Post, On Faith)
Christ have mercy. Kyrie eleison.
