WASHINGTON\u00a0 \u2014 Former Secretary of State Colin Powell <\/b>says the jury verdict that freed the killer of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin <\/b>was \u201cquestionable.\u201d But he isn\u2019t sure it will have staying power in the public consciousness.<\/p>\n
Speaking on CBS\u2019s Face the Nation, Powell<\/b> said cases like Martin\u2019s <\/b>\u201cblaze across the midnight sky\u201d and are forgotten.<\/p>\n
The first Black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and first Black secretary of state, Powell<\/b> says America has come a long way toward racial equality 50 years after Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019<\/b>s, \u201cI Have a Dream\u201d speech. Powell<\/b> recalled being refused service when trying to buy a hamburger before the Civil Rights Act of 1964.<\/p>\n
Minorities have many more opportunities today, but Powell <\/b>says King<\/b> would still demand work on education, housing and economic opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
WASHINGTON\u00a0 \u2014 Former Secretary of State Colin Powell says the jury verdict that freed the killer of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin was \u201cquestionable.\u201d But he isn\u2019t sure it will have staying power in the public consciousness. Speaking on CBS\u2019s Face the Nation, Powell said cases like Martin\u2019s \u201cblaze across the midnight sky\u201d and are forgotten. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}