Civil liberties? Justice? Equality? Safety? All of those things are in question not just north of where I live here in Central Florida but in the rest of this state as well. The recent killing of an African American young man and the release without arrest of his killer has instantly thrown us back into “the bad old days.” Or has it? I hate to say so but that horrible event has actually shown us how far we yet have to go.
We call Florida “The Sunshine State”. Well, you know what? The sun is shining on us down here in a way it never has before. It’s shining through the huge lens of a magnifying glass that is going continue to make it very, very hot around here. And that’s a good thing.
With that heat, we need to burn away the remaining vestiges of the past in Central Florida as well as in the rest of our state. Not only that, but continued application of this heat needs to rid us of dangerous and regressive pieces of legislation we have passed in our part of the country. One such law is called “Stand Your Ground”. This is the disgusting excuse that evidently helped to allow the release of Trayvon Martin’s killer without arrest.
