Arthur Weinreb’s book, ‘Racism and the Death of Trayvon Martin’: Legal Insights into the Trial of George Zimmerman’, recently released by Smashwords Copyright 2013, is the literary answer to a new mural entitled ‘We are all Trayvon Martin’ unveiled inside Florida’s Capitol in Tallahassee over the weekend.
‘We are all Trayvon Martin’ features a man shooting a hooded figure in the back of the head. “At 10 feet long, there’s also room for the bleeding visage of Martin Luther King Jr. and the words “we are all Trayvon Martin” in multiple languages,” writesRobert Laurie in his column.
Weinreb argues far more eloquently and convincingly in his book that we could all be George Zimmerman, accused of media-hyped racism in a tragedy that has nothing to do with racism.
A Not Guilty verdict notwithstanding, Zimmerman will spend the rest of his days looking over his shoulder. His is a story that never ends. Ditto for Weinreb’s ‘Racism and the Death of Trayvon Martin’. Reading the book teaches us that what happened to Zimmerman will happen again. And again and again.
Indeed, Weinreb’s concise and well-written ‘Racism and the Death of Trayvon Martin’ could be described as What Happened, What Didn’t Happen and What Happens Now.
Currently writing for Decoded Scienceand Digital Journal, Weinreb is the Associate Editor for Canada Free Press (CFP).
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