Posted by Brian
Fanning the flames of manufactured racism
Spike Lee, director of movies like "Do The Right Thing" and "Jungle Fever", jumped head first into the Trayvon Martin hysteria, retweeting the wrong address for George Zimmerman, the shooter in this whole tragedy.
The fact is is that Lee shouldn't have sent it out at all. He didn't "do the right thing" but instead did the dumb thing. Everyone from Lee, Al "
Tawana Brawley" Sharpton, Jesse "Hymie Town" Jackson, the New Black Panthers, and the President himself have fanned the racial flames in this case. For the President, this is just another in a long line of
jumping into local law enforcement cases in which he does not calm the high emotions, but further enflames them. Once a community agitator, always a community agitator.
Just as in the
Duke Lacrosse Team rape case, and the Atlanta Olympic bombings, the media have created a firestorm based on little more than their own biases, and their own desire to manufacture news. In both of those cases the media got it completely wrong. The Duke players and
Richard Jewell (who was labeled "the Olympic Bomber") were both completely cleared of any wrong-doing. Even after those cases, the media issued no mea culpas or did any introspection on what went wrong. It didn't matter whom had gotten hurt, or had their reputations destroyed. No, they just moved on down the road to the next big ratings getter.
To further their racial bent, they have gone as far as to label Zimmerman a "white hispanic" because of his mixed heritage. What the hell is that?! If Zimmerman had been half white and half black, would the have labeled him a "white black"? Hell no! We would not have heard of this case at all. The template is set, and the media is not going to come off of it.
As more information comes out we are finding that the actual facts of the case are not as cut and dry as the initial hysterical reporting intimated - that this was a racially motivated shooting. The truth is, we don't know what the motive was. The more information that comes out through witnesses and from the initial reports, the murkier the initial media reports become.
We have learned that Trayvon Martin was on top of Zimmerman and that it was Zimmerman that was screaming for help, and not Martin. The thing is is that the investigation is ongoing and not all the facts are out there as yet.
It may be that Zimmerman will be charged and go to court. But what if the jury finds Zimmerman not guilty. Have Spike Lee and all of these race-hustlers now set the stage for another "
Rodney King Riot" for Central Florida? Will they spread across the country because of the absolute media malpractice that has been, once again, been perpetrated on the public?
Let's hope calm heads prevail
Elderly Couple In Fear Over Spike Lee Tweet Star erroneously linked Floridians to man who killed Trayvon Martin
MARCH 27--With Twitter and Facebook continuing to explode with posts purporting to contain the address of George Zimmerman, property records and interviews reveal that the home is actually the longtime residence of a married Florida couple, both in their 70s, who have no connection to the man who killed Trayvon Martin and are now living in fear due to erroneous reports about their connection to the
shooter.
The mass dissemination of the address on Edgewater Circle in Sanford--the Florida city where Martin was shot to death last month--took flight last Friday when director Spike Lee retweeted a tweet containing Zimmerman’s purported address to his 240,000 followers.
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