@MicahKiyo Happy Birthday Superstar!!!!! So glad to have you in my life. It’s been quite a journey for the both of us. So many ups and downs, and disappointments. Even with all of that, we are only at the beginning. I’m thankful I can be a part of your life. You have made a huge impact in mine. I hope you have the best day ever! I love you!
Happy birthday Micah Kiyo!!!!!! Love you and your superhero boots, the world is yours girl!!!!
SLAYED AND BURIED.
LMFAO! I feel like @kanyebreast would love this
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1. Prominent conservative websites published fake photos of Martin. Twitchy, a new website run by prominent conservative blogger Michelle Malkin, promoted a photo — purportedly from Martin’s Facebook page — that shows Martin in saggy pants and flipping the bird. The photo, which spread quickly on conservative websites and Twitter, is intended to paint Martin as a thug. As Twitchy later acknowledged, it is not a photo of Trayvon Martin. [Examiner]
2. The Sanford Police selectively leaked irrelevant, negative information about Martin. The authorities told the Orlando Sentinel this morning that Trayvon was suspended from school for ten days “after being found with an empty marijuana baggie.” There is no evidence that Martin was under the influence of drugs at the time of his death, nor would prior possession of marijuana be a reason for killing him. It’s unclear what the relevance of the leak was, other than to smear Martin. [Orlando Sentinel]
3. On Fox News, Geraldo said that Martin was dressed “like a wannabe gangster.” Bill O’Reilly agreed with him. The sole evidence is that Martin was wearing a hoodie. Geraldo added that “everyone that ever stuck up a convenience store” was wearing a hoodie. [ThinkProgress; The Blaze]
4. Without any evidence, prominent right-wing bloggers suggested that Martin was a drug dealer. Right-wing blogger Dan Riehl advances the theory, also advanced in a widely linked piece on a site called Wagist. There does not appear to be any evidence to support this claim whatsoever. [Riehl World View]
5. Without any evidence, a right-wing columnist alleged that Martin assaulted a bus driver. Unlike Zimmerman, Trayvon has no documented history of violence. This allegation continues to be advanced by a blogger on the Examiner even after the real reason was leaked to the police and confirmed by the family. [Miami Herald; Examiner]
6. Zimmerman’s friend says Martin was to blame because he was disrespectful to Zimmerman. Zimmerman’s friend Joe Oliver said that Martin would not have been shot to death if Trayvon had just said “I’m staying with my parents.” Of course, Zimmerman was not a police officer, and Trayvon had no duty to tell him who he was or where he was going. [NBC News]
Read the full article here.
What I find most disturbing is the not-so-subtle implication that any of this (even if true) makes Zimmerman’s actions excusable. This bothers me in particular with the pictures of the kid in saggy pants. In everything I read about that, there was an indication that it is somehow “okay” or “understandable” to shoot a kid for looking like that, or even to shoot that kid in particular.
I would also like to know how many of these “journalists” smoked pot when they were 17.
I AM CRYING!!!
