From usatodayopinion: 'After all, Trayvon Martin's death led America to the Black Lives Matter social justice movement that is still chanted today.'
"I just think it's just ridiculous that somebody could shoot and kill your child, and then you have to defend yourself with legal counsel, in order to fight the person who is suing you. But this is America. ... I'm just glad that it's over. I really am."She doesn't waste her energy thinking about Zimmerman; she doesn't even call his name. She describes him as the man who took her son's life, nothing more, nothing less.
"I just feel like I want to inspire other people," Fulton told me."I want to inspire other mothers. I don't want us to wait until something happens to our children. ... I just want to encourage people. I want to let them know that I did it – I'm no superwoman – and they can do it too." Trayvon Martin has been gone for 10 years, stolen from his mother and father, from his brother, from his extended family and from all who loved him.
In those 10 years, there has also been action. Fulton refuses to be silent about the injustices in this country, about the Black men and women who are killed without cause. She won't accept the label superwoman, but I bestow it upon her. She has found a purpose for her pain, and we are all the beneficiaries of her strength and resolve."I just want to give people hope – that even though things might look dark in front of you, that things will get better," she said.
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