n i thought i was bad lol
My response to FOX NEWS: “Did Trayvon Steal the Candy and Tea?”
Ok, I’ve had it! I’m seriously frustrated with the amount of ignorance that surrounds me! Seriously! I honestly didn’t want to write about the Trayvon Martin case. As a matter of fact, I couldn’t. I didn’t know what I could say that would be different from everyone else. Am I upset? Yes. Do I want Zimmerman to hear the music? Yes. Do I think the justice system is corrupt? HYFR! But instead of sitting here, writing and complaining about it, I had to do something, meaning prompting action from student organizations, attending a justice rally, spamming my Twitter with #DCforTrayvon, and having a moment to ball my eyes out.
So why now?
Fox News (we already know their rep with minorities in general) has decided to play devil’s advocate and prompt the question: what if Trayvon actually stole that bag of candy and ice tea? “No receipt was found by investigators for the candy or the tea Martin was menacing at George Zimmerman when the neighborhood watchman was forced to defend himself,” said news anchors.
Oh, it gets better. The police chief Bill “Bull” Lee reported also finding 34 cents and a couple of baseball cards. Lee said “We concluded that the suspect must have stolen the candy and tea, and in my mind that bolstered Mr. Zimmerman’s self-defense claim. A criminal brandishing his stolen goods can be quite threatening when you’re following him in your SUV with a nine-millimeter, semi-auto handgun loaded with a full clip of hollow-point ammo.”
Did anyone else pick up on the stupidity here? If you will excuse me, I’m about to go in for a second:
pathetic
