DEAR SARAH

• Dear Sarah,

  I will post all day long on Facebook

  on Twitter, on Whatever social network

  media outlet I want

  I will keep posting and you and I will agree

  on one thing: It won't bring Trayvon back

  but it will upend the racism out there

  it will make you show your racist behind

  and front and baring teeth self while you

  talk about "drank" and "innocence"

  And dare to tell us to "stop dwelling on this"

  Get this clear: I am dwelling on it

  because you and your people think

  nothing of vilifying our children

  of shooting them in cold blood

  of blaming them for their own death

  And as long as there is a Sarah

  Valerie will be here, in defiance

  Get this: I. AM. NOT. NORMAL.

  And by your definition, I never want to be

  Walk away. Right. Trayvon ran.

  But that didn't get him safe.

  It got him Sarah- and George- 

  dead. Because it turns out you

  can't outrun vicious racism.

  You can't outrun hundreds of years

  of hatred and a 9 mm at point-blank

  "whatchu doing in this neighborhood nigga"

  range... so, get it clear. I'm going to keep

  posting. And praying. And protesting.

  and coming at you and your kind

  because, really. YOU are the problem, Sarah.

  YOU. ARE. THE. PROBLEM.

  
  

  © Valerie Bridgeman
  July 18, 2013

  
  

  Based on the post at Jaha's sight:

  
  

  Sarah Oliver I don't want to be a barer of bad news and I don't want to make light that trayvon is dead, but he wasn't the perfect little kid they showed in those elementary school pictures on the news, he was on suspension from school for drug charges and was buying the exact items needed to make "drank". Look at both sides of the story and this case followed the law, not just in Florida. The jury needed beyond reasonable doubt that Zimmerman went with the intentions to kill him and I don't believe when he got out of the car he planned on killing him. This isn't a case based on race, you and everyone else is making it that. Posting all day won't bring him back and it won't change laws that are there to protect innocent people. Look at the facts and stop dwelling on this. Most normal people would have walked away from this situation that happened a year ago but it escalated into a fight.

  
  
  
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  Jaha Zainabu Sarah, you do want to be the barer of bad news. Or you would have simply not posted anything and left us to our grieving. None of what you said even matters. This is a case based on race. Your statement about drank is even based on race. You want us to stop dwelling on this why? Because our dwelling makes you uncomfortable? If you don't like our dwelling go somewhere else. Go tell your people to stop giving us things to dwell upon. I'll wait.