It was 1998.....

There was a nice young man who got out of his car to change a flat tire. While in the process, a man came upon him.. The young man’s name was Ennis. Ennis, probably thought the man was going to help him.. but in seconds, Ennis was laying along side of the highway, in Bel Air, California, dead. Shot.  By a white man.

What makes this different than the Trayvon Martin case? Several things.. and then again, things were similar. Both were black young men. Both shot by a white man.  

Both young men where doing something common in the United States.

One was walking home from a store, going to his father’s house. When approached by the white man with a gun… not shown yet, but still.

Ennis was driving down the highway, and had a flat tire. He got out to fix it.. and was approached by a white man with a gun.. who knows if it was immediate or not.   Both, had no witness that I know of.

Both young men died. Both shooters went to court.. One gets to walk out, The other was sentenced to life.  I guess the difference is one did not go there to kill… (Zimmerman)  and actually the other didn’t go there to

kill, but to rob.. (Mikhail Markhasev), he wanted Ennis’s car.

Both, I believe, ended up dead…not because they were black..but  because one was a teen (Zimmerman thinking he was up to no good, being he had a hoodie sweatshirt on), and the other had a high price car.

Both young men’s parents were devastated. Both parents handled the killing of their son’s with dignity.. and that is where the sameness ended.

We have people marching.. we have Jesse Jackson and Rev. Sharp. We have towns getting together parades of marches in honor of Trayvon.

And there, is the difference.  No one did that with Ennis. But Markhasev did finally in 2009 give Ennis’s parents some closure by not going after any appeal to his sentence. Which was life in prison.

No one marched for Ennis… while some people watched what happen to Markhasev, I am sure no one reading this.. or even if you ask someone about that name.. will anyone recognize that name.  But Zimmerman will go down in trivial games, and everyone will know.. just like every one knows about the OJ trial.

Mikhail Markhasev doesn’t mean anything to you? Google it.. you will be surprised. That is the reason why I did not use Ennis’s last name.

My point? There is no point… or maybe there is… I just don’t get it. but I wonder how Ennis's parents are doing watching this all go on.. They would NOT wanted the Reverends and the parades... Not to say the Martin's do.