Martin’s mother: Trayvon was considering FAMU for college

Images of Trayvon Martin in a FAMU t-shirt captured by his former recreational football coach, Jerome Horton.

FAMU alumni Phillip Agnew and Ciara Taylor remain at the Florida capitol with dozens of other recent Rattler graduates and students to demand justice for teenager Trayvon Martin. If Martin had lived, many of the demonstrators might be studying with him in Coleman Memorial Library right now instead of protesting the Stand Your Ground law that permitted him to be gunned down during a rainy night in Sanford, Fla.

Sybrina Fulton, Martin’s mother, has said that her 17-year old son wanted to attend either FAMU or the University of Miami.

“He wanted to be a pilot or work as a mechanic in aviation. He was mechanically inclined and could fix just about anything,” she said.

Fulton also added that her son “was looking forward to graduation and college” and
“talked about going to prom and taking his senior pictures.”

Ashley Gantt, one of his teachers at Carol City High School, said that Martin’s favorite subject was math.

“He was just a sweet kid,” she said. “He got A's and B's. If he received a C on an assignment, it was because he was just being a kid that day. He was very smart.”

Martin wasn’t perfect and had been suspended from school a number of times for some minor offenses. When neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman shot and killed Martin, the teenager was on suspension for marijuana residue that was found in a bag he brought to school. But FAMU has a long record of helping promising young people grow up and acquire the discipline they need to become productive professionals.

Trayvon Martin would made a great addition to the FAMU campus. The Rattler students and alumni in the Dream Defenders are right to fight for the deceased child who might very well have found his path to future success on The Hill.