Travon was killed because he broke the Sundown Rule...... Tariq Nasheed
Tariq Nasheed's video:
http://youtu.be/gPvy8jAP6uw
In this video Tariq Nasheed discusses the ignored pieces of the George Zimmerman Case.
The Loewen video: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/189492-2
For decades after the 14th Amendment was ratified, and continuing well
into the 20th century, America’s blacks suffered insidious
discrimination that came in many forms. One of the most humiliating was
“Sundown Towns” part of what was called our “hidden history.” Sundown
towns were those communities that systematically excluded blacks from
those communities after dark. There is still some evidence them. James
Loewen, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Vermont has
researched the issue extensively, and is the author of
Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism, the first book ever written on the subject.
http://books.google.com/books/about/Sundown_Towns.html?id=lx4Kwap0gCwC
James Loewen: "I thought I would discover maybe ten of these in Illinois
and maybe ten across the country. And, to my complete astonishment I am
now at a count of 501 in Illinois alone. Which is 70 percent of all the
incorporated municipalities within the state and I think there‘s a
similar percentage in Missouri except for the southern part which is
actually along the Missouri River. These sundown towns are not common in
the South, and the southern part of Missouri along the Missouri River
is like the South in that regard. 548."
SUNDOWN TOWNS WENT TO SOME LENGTH TO GIVE THE IMPRESSION THEY WERE
INTEGRATED. SOME COUNTED PRISONERS, MENTAL INSTITUTION PATIENTS, LIVE IN
DOMESTICS AS PART OF THEIR POPULATIONS, OR EVEN ALLOWED ONE OR TWO
FAMILIES…JUST TO SAY THEY WERE NOT DISCRIMINATING. ALTHOUGH SOME HAD
SIGNS DISCOURAGING BLACKS…THE POLICY WAS MORE INFORMAL THAN CODIFIED BY
ORDINANCE.
http://stlhistoryblackwhite.wordpress.com/2011/02/21/sundown-towns-1890-1910/
In addition to the expulsion of African Americans from some small towns,
Chinese Americans
and other minorities were also driven out of some of the towns where
they lived. One example according to Loewen is that in 1870, Chinese
made up one-third of the population of
Idaho. Following a wave of violence and an 1886 anti-Chinese convention in
Boise, almost none remained by 1910.
[6] The town of
Gardnerville, Nevada, is said to have blown a whistle at 6 p.m. daily alerting
Native Americans to leave by sundown.
[7] In addition,
Jews were excluded from living in some sundown towns, such as
Darien, Connecticut.
[8]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundown_town
In some cases, signs were placed at the town's borders with statements similar to the one posted in
Hawthorne, California, which read "
Nigger, Don't Let The Sun Set On YOU In Hawthorne" in the 1930s.
[2]
In some cases, the exclusion was official town policy or through
restrictive covenants
agreed to by the real estate agents of the community. In others, the
policy was enforced through intimidation. This intimidation could occur
in a number of ways, including harassment by law enforcement officers.
[3]
Though no one knows the number of sundown towns there were in the
United States, the largest attempt made to determine how common they
were estimated that there were several thousand throughout the nation.
The highest proportion of confirmed sundown towns were in the state of
Illinois[citation needed],
but that may not be truly representative of their distribution, as
sundown towns are difficult to accurately determine given the reluctance
for the towns themselves to have, or to reveal, official documents
stating their status as sundown towns.
Since the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, and especially since the
Civil Rights Act of 1968
prohibited racial discrimination concerning the sale, rental, and
financing of housing, the number of sundown towns has decreased.
However, as sociologist
James W. Loewen
writes in his book on the subject, it is impossible to precisely count
the number of sundown towns at any given time, because most towns have
not kept records of the ordinances or signs that marked the town's
sundown status.
[4] His book,
Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism, notes that hundreds of cities across America have been sundown towns at some point in their history.
[5]
Fresh water keeps us well, fresh water opens the way, fresh water is our sustainer, freshwater is from above. We are thankful for the fresh water in the life of Travon Martin. May his memory be a blessing. May his life-gift wake the sleeping giant. May his parents tears water a new freedom. May our pain of loss be soon replaced with a smile of realization that fresh water has returned to it's source. May his name ring synonymous with change. May America be improved.................Ashee, ashee, ashee !
