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.
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More senseless violence and it has been going on since the beginning of this country.
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