"On February 26, 2012, one of the most famous and deadly encounters occurred in Sanford Florida.
George Zimmerman saw Trayvon Martin while he was acting as a neighborhood watch volunteer. Minutes later Martin was dead and Zimmerman would see his life transformed by greedy politicians and the racial grievance industry, both of which found him to be an irresistible target.
But there was one story here that was totally buried. What was that story and why does it remain so important today, even after the jury verdict? Every story needs a villain and a saint.
The left needed to spin this as a narrative of American racism. Vital to this story then as it is today is the idea that Trayvon Martin was an innocent little boy.
The media did its duty in creating this narrative by showing photos of Trayvon Martin, not as a 6’2” 17 year old with gold capped teeth, but as a slim 12 year old.
But the story that is buried is the story of Trayvon Martin. He was not an innocent child. He chose his path and had that fatal encounter not taken place, prison sooner or later was in his future.
Trayvon Martin should have been arrested twice. Perhaps had he been it might have changed the path he was on. Twice he was suspended from Miami Dade schools because he had burglary tools and possession of a dozen pieces of women’s jewelry.
Text messages recovered from Trayvon Martin’s phone show photos of guns and Martin using drugs. More disturbing are Martin’s text messages where he describes himself as a “gangsta,” talks about fighting, talks about buying and using drugs and asks a friend if he will share a .380. (A semi automatic pistol).
The Conservative Tree House did an amazing job of investigating the case in a way the mainstream media would not. They discovered in the last hour of his life, Trayvon Martin tried to buy a “blunt.” A blunt is a small cigar, which is hollowed out then filled with marijuana.
He also bought the infamous skittles and Arizona Watermelon iced tea. Those were not because he was hungry or thirsty or even getting them for someone else. Those two products are key ingredients in an urban drug drink called “Lean Purple.”
When these embarrassing facts about Trayvon Martin were released, the left went into overdrive to hide them and simply drop them down the memory hole. Benjamin Crump the family attorney called the texts and photos, “irrelevant.”
They were not irrelevant for the trial (even though the jury did not see them) and they are definitely not irrelevant for the battle for the narrative that is now being fought.
Barack Obama, operating on the theory that a crisis should never be allowed to go to waste, called for further gun control in memory of Trayvon Martin.
Obama was unavailable for comment about the other young black men like Trayvon Martin who had been killed in Chicago where the 2nd Amendment is all but repealed.
The left continues to push the narrative that America is a racist nation, George Zimmerman was a crazed, racist wannabe cop and Trayvon Martin was an innocent child.
None of that is true.
Trayvon Martin was well on his way to a life of crime, a life that would feature at best, the revolving door of the criminal justice system or possibly even a lifetime stay at a penal facility. Or, at worst, a shortened life, ended by someone else.
Trayvon Martin was a product of American liberal social policies. A single mother raised him. His school was more concerned about appeasing the civil rights hucksters than whether Trayvon Martin was either educated or taught basic responsibilities.
The story of Trayvon Martin’s life is not irrelevant. It is the major cause of what happened that night he encountered George Zimmerman. The left has tried to demonize Zimmerman and has tried to canonize St. Trayvon.
The truth is Trayvon Martin was a 17-year-old thug who was the architect of his own demise.
That is the story that should be told. Perhaps if that story and the truth about Trayvon Martin is told, it might prevent the next Trayvon Martin."