I am watching Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story. I believe I have watched enough videos from Buzzfeed, Vox, and MTV Decoded to have adequately inoculated myself, like taking small doses of intellectual iocane powder, to build up a resistance to such brain-deadening bullshit.
I knew going in, it was going to be a propaganda piece, but holy shit, I didn’t realize just how much.
Nary a picture of Trayvon was show that wasn’t Trayvon as a the doe-eyed child with the grin. Not the young man he was.
His criminal record was brushed aside with a single sentence. He was described as a great kid with good graded who wanted to be a pilot, then “he became a teenager and you know how boys can become.”
That’s it.
Benjamin Crump is hailed for his work with the media to getting America to care about a black boy being shot. As thought the media didn’t want to turn Trayvon Martin into a cause celeb to bash American race relations over the head with.
The documentary actually calls Crump the “Johnny Cochran of Florida” as a compliment.
I guess the standard for jurisprudence in the black community is a clown show charlatan media whore who is better at making hay in front of CNN cameras than in a courtroom. If this doesn’t explain half the problems with race relations in America, I don’t know what will.
Of course, stand your ground is roundly attacked as was the Sanford Sheriff.
The first episode actually ended with pictures of Dylann Roof superimposed next to George Zimmerman over a Black Lives Matter protest with a voice clip of Trump saying “Make America Great Again.”
So this special is going so far as to tie the shooting of Treyvon Martin to Dylann Roof and Trump in some sort of grand racist unification theory.
I’m going watch the whole thing and report on it, but it’s already off to an odious start and I can’t imagine how it can get worse from here, even though I know it will.
The whole Trayvon scandal was indeed created by Benjamin Crump and there was a reason behind it: He had been nominated for Florida’s Supreme Court.
My guess is that he gambled on making this case a showbizz and advertisement spectacular which would grease his nomination to the Governor’s desk and make it impossible for him to say no without being branded a racist or other crap.
Unfortunately for Crump, the Jury upended what was sure (in their minds) a guilty verdict. The fact that his “hand” was behind some of the major screw ups (release of the 911 tapes, the letter written in cursive”, etc.) did not help either.
Some time after the trial was done and the waters receded, Gov Scott retired his name from the nominations’ list.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/gubernatorial/gov-rick-scott-often-rejects-florida-bars-lists-of-lawyers-to-nominate/2149521
Burn!
Ugh… more b.s. about Saint Trayvon of Skittles. I rolled my eyes so hard that I saw my brain.
“I’m going watch the whole thing and report on it, but it’s already off to an odious start and I can’t imagine how it can get worse from here, even though I know it will.”
Kudos to you sir. 🙂 Hope your immunity to iocane powder is on the up and up.
can I steal your “rolled my eyes…” line? I almost spilled my coffee…..
Go right ahead. 😀
I can’t remember where I read or heard it the 1st time, but couldn’t stop laughing for several minutes afterwards.
The entire point of this exercise isn’t to “set the record straight”. It’s to do battlespace preparation for the 2018 and 2020 elections. Even the very title tells us this. Trayvon Martin is the Horst Wessel of the Democratic Party.
Most Americans don’t have any idea who Horst Wessel was, or why that comparison is apt.
Interesting fact: Nazi music had fewer racial slurs than modern hip-hop.
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