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Owner59 -> RE: "the exacerbation of and the exploitation of racial conflict" (4/2/2012 6:20:02 AM)
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As far as I know Sharpton was.Heard that, on the radio.I don`t know about Jackson.
But it`s irrelevant and NOT an invitation by their personal critics........ to attack and destroy the kid who was killed and his hurting family.
Dragging them into their ongoing-never-ending-angry-white-man-whine-fest is disgusting.
I don`t blame the family for inviting them to help.They must have felt all alone,especially at 1st.
"For Some Conservatives, Trayvon Martin Just Can`t Be Dead Enough"
"A few weeks ago an internet blogger named Andrew Breitbart died suddenly. A lot of progressives didn’t like Breitbart because of his abusive tactics, his tendency to publish things that later turned out to be untrue and the total lack of respect that he showed to people with whom he disagreed.
But at the time of Breitbart’s death, most progressives bit their tongue and refrained from criticizing the man. After all, it didn’t seem proper to speak ill of a man whose wife and children are still suffering from the shock of his death. So out of respect for the man’s family, if nothing else, most progressives opted not to disparage Breitbart and some, like Lawrence O’Donnell, spent a lot of time saying kind things about him.
After seventeen year old Trayvon Martin was shot to death recently, you might think conservatives, who had no reason to dislike the young man, would afford his family the same respect. But you would have thought wrong.
In addition to coping with the horrific death of their teenage son, who still had his whole life ahead of him, and the fact that their son’s killer was never arrested, Trayvon’s parents also now have to endure the endless array of conservative commentators and bloggers who relentlessly denigrate the young teen.
What I think is most shocking is the glee with which conservatives are trashing the memory of this child. They’ve circulated fake pictures of him on the internet. They’ve analyzed every problem he’s had at school and every comment he ever made on Twitter to find some way to suggest he was a bad kid – as if to suggest he deserved to die.
Conservatives now repeat George Zimmerman’s version of events as if it were gospel, despite the contradictions of witnesses; and they suggest that the young, unarmed teenager got exactly what he deserved. Unfortunately, we’ll never hear Trayvon Martin’s side of things. George Zimmerman made that impossible."
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