This offensive picture went up at Michelle Malkin’s blog “Twitchy” in a post originally titled “Why #TeamDueProcess is important for justice.”
They have since issued a correction on the revelation that the “Trayvon as gangsta” photo is actually “not a Trayvon photo.” No word yet on the authenticity of “your friendly, smiling George Zimmerman.”
Incompetence betrays the righteousness of the ones who posted this.
Conservatives are making the argument that “a tragedy is a tragedy,” accusing the Left of artificially injecting the racial question here to further political goals of equality and gun control. While I firmly believe that race is in fact central to the details of this case, and that equality and gun control are noble causes for which the Left needs no ginned up pretext to debate, let’s set those issues aside and address the deeper insult waged with the posting of the above picture.
A 17 year old boy was needlessly and senselessly killed, and his family is now saddled with grieving his loss on top of the blinding supernova of national racial angst, and yet the authors of that post thought they would be making a helpful point by posting what they thought was a racially charged picture of the same minor who is not alive to defend himself. Could they look Trayvon’s parents in the eye and explain this photo? Would they even want to?
No point is worth making if it reveals yourself as a craven social boor. No matter the circumstance, an innocent kid is dead and good families have been blasted apart. If conservatives really want to make a point here, I suggest empathy.
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