Trayvon Martin family upset over moving of curbside memorial

Items left a curbside memorial to slain teen Trayvon Martin have been collected by the city of Sanford, Fla., upsetting the Martin family, theGrio.com reports.

A city statement said the family had been consulted before the items were taken to the Sanford Museum, but an attorney for Martin's parents said that's not true, theGrio reported. The site said that Francis Oliver, who runs the black history museum in Sanford’s Goldsboro neighborhood, says the city asked to move the memorial there, even though Martin was killed in a mixed-race neighborhood in the city.

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honest to God--who cares---painstaking that the boy died young, but, get it over with

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Reply#1 - Mon Jul 16, 2012 11:09 AM EDT

If Trayvons parents would have raised him right this wouldn't have happened ! Too many parents shirk their responsibility of raising their kids properly !

I'm sorry the Trayvon is dead but lets not forget that his parents are also at fault here !

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Reply#2 - Mon Jul 16, 2012 11:30 AM EDT

Time to move on and stop trying to make money on this kid. who cares anymore, there are alot more important things going on in this world then another roadside memorial. And yes the parents are to blame more then anyone else out there so start blaming them. he was not just a kid walking down the street, if he was he would still be here.

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Reply#3 - Mon Jul 16, 2012 12:57 PM EDT

Well, I think it is time to take the memorial away, take it to the cemetery now. This Trayvon probably never got this much attention from his family before this happened. And the innocent picture of him at his younger age, give me a break, put his most recent picture up, guess the family doesn't have any, wonder why. And sorry to say there is much more to this story. Its time to move on enough is enough.

    Reply#4 - Mon Jul 16, 2012 1:55 PM EDT

    so sad !! thats the problem, things happen and people get tired of hearing about it over and over again but a young boy was still killed!! would you feel the same way as if it was your son, brother, or friend ? I think not !

      Reply#5 - Mon Jul 16, 2012 2:59 PM EDT

      True, but everything has an end to it, including THIS!

        #5.1 - Mon Jul 16, 2012 3:21 PM EDT
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        Maybe this kid's parents would like the Pope to make him a Saint and Congress name a U.S. aircraft carrier after him

          Reply#6 - Mon Jul 16, 2012 3:19 PM EDT

          The county should be more sensitive to something as traumatic as the death of a young person, especially something as racially charged as this.

            Reply#7 - Mon Jul 16, 2012 3:54 PM EDT

            This was "racially charged" by the black population, specifically Jackson & Sharpton!...ANY DISPUTE????

              #7.1 - Mon Jul 16, 2012 5:06 PM EDT
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              A young black boy was murdered because of the color of his skin. This country was founded in racism and the USA is STILL a racist country. Treyvon did nothing wrong but be black, which is not an acceptable race to be to a large amount of white people in this country. If a white person had been unjustifiably murdered by a black person, white people would be up in arms over it if the system had failed the white murder victim, and you know it, although that failure would NEVER happen to a white murder victim. Treyvon WAS raised right, where did you pull that idiotic statement out of? That's what I thought. WHY is it troubling anybody because a black murder victim's parents are wanting a memorial located at the place where the crime was committed? If news about Treyvon's murder continues to upset you because you feel it's gone on "long enough", when you see the words Treyvon Martin in a news header, simply DON'T READ IT! Just move along. Grow up, stop the immature stomping of feet and simply let Treyvon's parents construct a memorial where they feel it should be located, without whites complaining about it. Oh no, we can't do that. We can't let black people grieve. We must control black people's lives. The United States is still a racist country, white people still attempting to control black people's lives in any way they can. (sarcasm/reality). Slavery is OVER people! Or is it?

                Reply#8 - Mon Jul 16, 2012 4:58 PM EDT

                Horsedung. He was shot (not murdered) for dressing like a punk hood!

                  #8.1 - Mon Jul 16, 2012 5:06 PM EDT
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