Hammond, IN, July 20 — In front of the federal court house, over 100 angry workers protested the racist verdict from the trial of George Zimmerman, murderer of Trayvon Martin.  The demonstration was sponsored by the Rainbow/Push coalition, but much of the contingent were community residents and friends. The misleaders of the protest offered workers no real solutions to the callous and racist murder of black youth under capitalism.  
Instead, one organizer offered the repealing of the “Stand Your Ground” law in Indiana as a means to keep black youth safe from racist vigilantes in their neighborhood.  However, Zimmerman’s lawyers didn’t even have to invoke “Stand Your Ground” in a trial that clearly demonstrated how the racist kkkourts see black youth as expendable.  Zimmerman’s lawyers said that he was using self-defense when he approached an unarmed black teenager with a gun and shot him down in cold blood.  Additionally, repealing “Stand Your Ground” wouldn’t address the racist police murders of black youth that is enabled and protected by the same kkkourts.
Another organizer requested that everyone in attendance pressure the U.S. Department of Justice to file a civil lawsuit against Zimmerman on behalf of Trayvon Martin’s parents.  Why should workers believe that justice can be found in any of the bosses’ courts?  Even in the best-case scenario, Martin’s parents get paid off while their son, and hundreds of others like him, are refused true justice.  Regardless of what the bosses tell us on a daily basis, a worker’s life has no price tag.
As if things couldn’t get worse, another organizer said, “If you don’t vote, you can’t complain.”  This comes just weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court removed the veil of voter equality by gutting the Voting Rights Act, not to mention the mass killing of black youth by racist police that has happened under Obama’s watch.  In addition, a point that all of these misleaders fail to mention is that black workers didn’t vote to gain the right to vote. A multi-racial  group of workers fought against the kkkops, the kkkourts, and the Ku Klux Klan to win the right for black workers to vote.  And even after all of the blood, sweat, and tears, voting has never helped the working class.  Instead, it has provided false hopes that workers have a say in a system that’s designed to exploit and oppress them.  Don’t vote, revolt!
Despite what all of these misleaders say, workers won’t find justice through the bosses’ laws or by fighting one or two laws! Workers won’t find justice through the bosses’ kkkourts or payoffs! Workers must not vote for their exploiters and oppressors!  To end racist murder, workers need a revolution!  Workers need state power!  Workers need communism!  Join PLP!