![]() In this version, though, their bodies have been removed, and there is only darkness above. ![]() In the original picture, two black men hang from the tree. What’s notable, though, is that this specific version of the picture has been altered. Consequently, these recordings document the last moments of Trayvon Martin’s life, meaning that they are “the call of good-byes.” The picture included at the end of this “situation script” is also worth paying attention to, since it’s a famous photograph of a public lynching that took place in Indiana during the Jim Crow Era. These snippets were recorded and used during the trial of the man who killed Martin. This section dips into figuration and abstraction, but readers might intuit that the speaker (who is most likely Trayvon Martin himself) is referring to the fact that the incident that unfolded between Trayvon Martin and the neighborhood watchman who killed him was picked up in the background of several telephone calls that neighbors placed to the police. ![]()
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