Colin Powell: Trayvon Martin Verdict ‘Questionable’

Posted by | August 25, 2013 09:01 | Filed under: Top Stories


Colin Powell spoke on Face the Nation saying the verdict given to George Zimmerman was “questionable,” but he isn’t sure it will have saying power in the public consciousness, saying these kinds of cases “blaze across the midnight sky” and are forgotten.

The first black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and first black secretary of state, Powell says America has come a long way toward racial equality 50 years after Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Powell recalled being refused service when trying to buy a hamburger before the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Minorities have many more opportunities today, but Powell says King would still demand work on education, housing and economic opportunities.

 

 

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