In case
you missed it, Jonathan Capehart shared a letter to George Zimmerman from a
Facebook post from Alex Fraser. Jonathan said he heard about the letter when Steve
Harvey read it on his show and he wrote a column in the Washington Post about
it.
Here's Alex Fraser's "Message to Zimmerman":
Dear
George Zimmerman,
For the
rest of your life you are now going to feel what its like to be a black man in
America.
You will
feel people stare at you. Judging you for what you think are unfair reasons.
You will lose out on getting jobs for something you feel is outside of your
control. You will believe yourself to be an upstanding citizen and wonder why
people choose to not see that.
People
will cross the street when they see you coming. They will call you hurtful
names. It will drive you so insane some days that you’ll want to scream at the
top of your lungs. But you will have to wake up the next day, put on firm look
and push through life.
I bet
you never thought that by shooting a black male you’d end up inheriting all of
his struggles.
Enjoy
your “freedom.”
Sincerely,
A black
male who could’ve been Trayvon MartinYou also can read the Facebook post and comments with the link on Jonathan Capehart's column.
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