I, Too, Am America

Monday marked the sixth anniversary of the murder of Trayvon Martin by a white guy with a gun who shouldn’t have had one, a killing that helped spark the Black Lives Matter movement. Unlike the Parkland victims, the thousands of mostly black kids protesting gun violence have often been dubbed thugs, not heroes. What is wrong with this picture? All victims, say black activists, deserve to be honored “for our moments of courage or grieving.”