My new film and best-selling book of the same name, The Trayvon Hoax: Unmasking the Witness Fraud that Divided America, has made real inroads into the public consciousness as regards the witness fraud in the George Zimmerman trial. However, the publicity effort has been battling what I have come to call “The Gospel of Trayvon.”

“The Gospel of Trayvon” is the fiction into which black Americans have been indoctrinated for almost eight years. The Gospel maintains that across America there are armed white men in the streets, cops especially, eager to shoot unarmed black people at the slightest suspicion and for no reason other than their dark skin tones. In addition, The Gospel maintains that America is hopelessly racist, and that its people, government and institutions are racist as well.
If you are African American, you are expected to accept The Gospel of Trayvon as unquestioned fact, to protest when called upon, and above all, to get out and vote for your protectors in the Democratic Party.      

Heretics, take note. If you challenge The Gospel you can expect reprisal. Patrick Mahomes, the congenial bi-racial Kansas City Chiefs quarterback, just learned this lesson the hard way. One typical headline on a sports site last week screamed, “Patrick Mahomes Sparks Outrage With George Zimmerman Take.”

The outrage? Mahomes had tweeted, “This case was an absolute horrible tragedy, however there was no criminal activity that occurred.” Bear in mind that Mahomes posted this tweet as a 17-year-old in 2013. Someone dug it up thinking it would embarrass him, and The Gospel faithful reacted, predictably appalled.

“Patrick Mahomes our hero defending Zimmerman? We gotta sack him for the culture,” tweeted one true believer. “Would I be wrong to stop rooting for Patrick Mahomes after I found out about his old tweets in which they look like he’s defending George Zimmerman?” tweeted another. For white liberals and Democrats, The Gospel of Trayvon strengthens their hold over black voters. With a black father, Mahomes was expected to fall in line. Outrage followed when he didn’t. In fact, Mahomes displayed a judiciousness beyond his years, a virtue that has served him well on the way to the Super Bowl. In a related tweet, Mahomes also wrote, “Stop resisting or assaulting a cop.” How dare he show such common sense?

Patrick Mahomes at KC Chiefs 2018 Military Appreciation Day

Photo credit: U.S. Air National Guard Master Sgt. Michael Crane

Before The Trayvon Hoax film and book, the preachers of The Gospel of Trayvon met very little resistance, if any. However, I prove beyond any doubt that The Gospel is all fake. The key witness in the trial of George Zimmerman, Rachel Jeantel, was an imposter. She was not Trayvon's girlfriend and she was not on the phone with him in the days and minutes before his death. She knew nothing and lied repeatedly to incriminate Zimmerman.

By examining Trayvon Martin's 750-page cell phone extraction report, I was able to identify Trayvon's real girlfriend, then-16-year old Brittany Diamond Eugene, as the actual “phone witness.” I expose the entire judicial and racial hoax in detail, including identifying those who knew about it, starting with Trayvon's mother Sybrina Fulton, who is today a 2020 Miami-Dade Commissioner candidate.

Enough people have now seen The Trayvon Hoax or read the book to mount a public challenge to the fraudulent Gospel. Among the biggest dissenters are those who have suffered the most from its consequences: the black youth of America. One young lady who emailed me typified the responses from black teenagers, “I grew up on the Trayvon Martin stuff. I have a black son and was afraid for him to grow up in America. But now I realize we got played. Thank you. Thank you.”

Andre Davis wrote in an Amazon review, “This documentary is a great illustration of how a tragic occurrence...can be turned into political capital to the detriment of the Black community (my community).”

Those in positions of influence are beginning to speak out too. In reviewing The Trayvon Hoax film on his Bloggingheads podcast, Glenn Loury, a noted African American professor at Brown University, spent the first 10 minutes apologizing for even questioning The Gospel of Trayvon. Those 10 minutes were obligatory. More to the point, Loury engaged another black professor, Columbia's John McWhorter, in an on-camera film review. The conclusions were jarring to anyone who took The Gospel seriously.

McWhorter said, “Gilbert made a very meticulous case” and his “almost astonishingly diligent investigation” had totally transformed his view of the Trayvon Martin case. Loury concluded, “The Civil Rights movement can’t be built on lies. If you want to make a real moral argument that has political effect in this country, you can’t base it upon hoaxes, lies, and ruses.”

Professor Loury went on to criticize the liberal media. He said The Trayvon Hoax film was “a terrible indictment of journalism,” which had abandoned objectivity “to indulge in a kind of cheerleading frenzy to pile on to a narrative that is evidence of either virtue signaling...or just a kind of crass partisan our side versus their side and we’re gonna win.”

Indeed, in the two months before George Zimmerman filed his $100 million lawsuit against the Martin family, prosecutors, Benjamin Crump, Jeantel, Eugene et al, much of the media refused to cover the bombshell revelations in The Trayvon Hoax. Many liberal journalists openly admitted to me that although the research was flawless and its newsworthiness inarguable, they were afraid to cover my work out of fear their publisher would be bombarded on social media with demands for their firing. As for conservative media, many admitted they were just too scared to cover The Trayvon Hoax for fear of being called racist. Self-censorship would be their route. Even well-known conservative black pundits are fearful of backlash from The Gospel believers. They remain silent to this day.

The net result of this collective timidity is that when a smart young guy like Mahomes gets savaged for saying something that makes total sense, no one dares come forth to defend him. Because the media are so indifferent or afraid of telling the truth, the nefarious preachers of The Gospel of Trayvon continue to grow even bolder today. Undaunted, Martin family attorney Benjamin Crump has scheduled a book signing at a Superbowl warm up party of his new race hoax tome, Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People.

Go Chiefs!

Hollywood film director Joel Gilbert is president of Highway 61 Entertainment.  Among his many films are political documentaries including The Trayvon Hoax: Unmasking the Witness Fraud that Divided America, Trump: The Art of the Insult, There's No Place Like Utopia, Dreams from My Real Father, Atomic Jihad, and Farewell Israel: Bush, Iran and the Revolt of Islam.