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In the 20-21st July edition of the Financial Times, Christopher Caldwell penned an article titled "A civil rights chase of Zimmerman is doomed to failure" in response to the ongoing call for justice for Trayvon Martin. Ahmed Sule writes his rejoinder to Caldwell’s article.

Mr. C. Caldwell
Financial Times
1 Southwark Bridge
London
SE1 9HL

Dear Mr. Caldwell,

Trayvon Martin: We See Things Differently

Dear Lambeth Labour Councillors

As many of you are aware, there has been a great deal of concern about local Party procedure after the democratic election of Adeline Aina to fight the Larkhall ward.

Local party bosses want to question Adeline over matters of ‘integrity’, which they say is of most importance to the party.

The West Midlands Civic Leadership Programme was put together by Operation Black Vote funded by the Barrow Cadbury Trust to help tackle the under-representation of BME individuals in civic and pubic life. Launched earlier this year, it has also aimed to demystify some of the activities and functions of public institutions. Kacey Akpoteni, a Birmingham resident who is on the programme, can attest that the programme has fulfilled these objectives and only half way through the programme, Akpoteni has already assumed a public life role.

Prime Minister David Cameron has declined to condemn recent terrorist attacks targeted at three mosques in West Midlands.

The Prime Minister is “concerned by the recent events”, a spokesman for Downing Street replied when asked Monday by the Editor of The Muslim News, Ahmed J Versi, why the Prime Minister had not condemned the attacks. He added that “the Home Secretary has issued a statement” about viable explosive devices left at three mosque sites.

MARCHING FOR JUSTICE: Demonstrators in the US support Trayvon Martin cause.

TIME TO find these retired marching boots from the bottom of your wardrobe.

We are marching again and just like in times of old we are marching for justice, equality and fairness.

Black parents in white societies perennially worry about our young men and young boys in particular. Too many of us have looked into graves filled with the tears of parents.

On 3rd July, members of the Local Labour party in Lambeth made history by democratically electing three Black women to be their prospective candidates in the Larkhall ward.

One would have thought that Local party bosses would have been ecstatic with the news. After all never before has three Black candidates been elected to stand in one ward much less three Black women.

The fact that two Ukrainian men have been arrested for a failed terrorist attack on a Mosque in Small Heath, Birmingham, and that one of men has now been arrested for the racist murder of Mohammed Saleem has barely made the headlines. Worse still, the silence from many senior politicians has been deafening.

Speech at the UN

And even now as Mr. Mandela enters into what might well be the evening of his years with the sun soon setting just beyond the reach of his most loftiest achievements, he is again summoning the attention of the world as he beckons us to be mindful of the fragility of life

For let us never forget that it is because of the life and personal sacrifice of Mr. Mandela that South Africa is a different nation today.

In the end, Tulip Siddiq’s selection victory was beyond doubt, but for weeks and months the debate about who would succeed Glenda Jackson MP as the party’s candidate to fight the next election was anything but certain.

The topic of gang and youth violence has been controversial for many years and continues to cause uneasiness in the heart of communities. Recent reports carried out by the Institute for Economics and Peace earlier this year has stated that:

Lewisham is the most violent place in Britain.”