In
December 2010, the son of a local police officer sucker punched a
homeless black man outside a bar. The white attacker strutted away from
the downed man, obviously proud of his cowardly achievement. Police
arrived at the scene and declined to arrest him, despite the fact the
unprovoked attack was captured on video.
Over
the course of the next several weeks, the community expressed outrage
but few stepped up to do anything to demand justice for the homeless
man, Sherman Ware. The black community was indifferent. The NAACP
ignored the incident. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton were nowhere to be
found.
But
one man was so determined to obtain justice for Sherman, he did what
few others were willing to do. He stepped up and went door-to-door in
black communities handing out fliers about the incident. He posted the
fliers, put them on cars in parking lots, waited outside churches to
give them to parishioners. He worked tirelessly exposing this injustice.
In January, his efforts finally paid off. In part, thanks to public pressure after the video was posted on Youtube, Justin Collison, a man with a violent history, was charged with sucker punching Sherman Ware.
In
case you haven’t guessed, the man who worked so hard to bring justice
for a homeless black man when the NAACP and other civil rights leaders
looked the other way is named below the fold.
The man was George Zimmerman.
These noble efforts by Zimmerman to help a stranger get deserved justice were related by a family member who is now in hiding due to death threats. The family member sent this letter
to the Sanford Chapter of the NAACP, which has continued to perpetuate
the smear that George Zimmerman is a racist who killed Trayvon Martin
for being black.
Don’t expect to hear this story in the mainstream media.
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