Trayvon Martin's Brother Graduated from College

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http://www.blackenterprise.com/news/trayvon-martins-brother-celebrates-graduating-from-college/

The tragic events that have been rooted in judgment and ignorance have claimed the lives of numerous unarmed men and women of color in the past few years. Fortunately, through the dark storms of hate, we here at Black Enterprise are proud to bring a slight ray of good news in the form of Jahvaris Fulton celebrating his graduation from Florida International University.
The older brother of slain Sanford, Florida teenager Trayvon Martin was able to commemorate this moment of achievement in higher education alongside his father, Tracy Martin. Fulton, 22, has made the best of his opportunities since losing his little brother to violence. Prior to graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, Jahvaris served as a congressional intern for Florida Representative Frederica Wilson.
Wilson, a founder of 5000 Role Models of Excellence Project, also counts Fulton as a member who helped to encourage at-risk in Miami-Dade schools to stay in school.
Recently, Jahvaris and Trayvon’s mother, Sybrina Fulton, spoke on CNN’s Anderson Cooper show to highlight the wide breadth of miscommunication that exists between persons of color and white America. “It’s not happening to them, so they don’t quite get it,” she told Cooper in an interview that aired Friday. “They don’t quite understand. They think that it’s a small group of African Americans that’s complaining: ‘Oh, what are they complaining about now?’”
With her son, Jahvaris Fulton, a college graduate, a success in higher academia, we here at Black Enterprise applaud the merits of someone striving past strife and commend his family on such a triumphant occasion.
We weren’t the only ones though, as Twitter took time out to congratulate the 22-year-old graduate on fulfilling the dreams his brother never got a chance to achieve.

 

[radio rahiem]

#blackexcellence

 

[Robbie3000]

Good shyt.

 

[Serious]

it
guess he got those certs

 

[CHL]

it
guess he got those certs

Six certs, six pawgs, six figures

 

[Deezy314619]

Now the next lvl

 

[DaPresident]

Continue doing ya thing young brother...

Let these cacs know your family is FILLED with excellence...So are many others of color

They let an innocent young man die, in cold blood at the hands of a TRUE criminal...smh

 

[tmonster]

never forget

 

[OfTheCross]

FIU

 

[Jesus]

And? I know thugs who have college graduate siblings.....

 

[Redwood]

There's a light in every tunnel.

 

[Richard Wright]

Prior to graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology,

 

[Richard Wright]

What's interesting about this is if trayvons family wasn't one with the means to get his brother through college, they wouldn't have lived in that neighborhood and he would have never been murdered.

His brother graduating is nbd. If it was, trayvon would have never been in that neighborhood. I'm happy for the brother though.

 

[mc_brew]

this story warmed my heart a little.. however, i feel it pertinent to address this quote by sybrina: “They don’t quite understand. They think that it’s a small group of African Americans that’s complaining: ‘Oh, what are they complaining about now?’” ... uhh sybrina, i hate to break it to you, but... they understand quite well, maybe even better than you... THEY DON'T CARE... okay, back to celebrating... only for a minute though... the antelope has to get up early in the morning to outrun the lion....