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Ten years later; what Trayvon Martin means to me
A decade after Trayvon’s murder and almost nine years after the verdict, I wish I could say that the violence has been replaced by peace. I wish I could say that the chip has fallen off of my shoulder, and that the hatred in my heart has subsided. In all honesty, though, I haven’t sat with my back to the door since I was sixteen.