Why Conservatives Are Smearing Trayvon Martin’s Reputation

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First, there was the discussion of what Trayvon Martin was wearing. “I think the hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon Martin’s death as George Zimmerman was,” Geraldo Rivera said on Fox & Friends
last week, later suggesting that the sweatshirt made him look like a
“wannabe gangster.” Then conservative bloggers started digging through
Martin’s Facebook page for information that might raise doubts about his
character. It turns out that one of Martin’s friends had written, under
a happy birthday message, “damn were you at nigga needa plant;”
according to Dan Riehl at Riehl World View, “Some may interpret that as
Martin having somehow been involved in selling [marijuana].”

On
Monday, The Daily Caller published a list of Martin’s tweets—his handle
was @NO_LIMIT_NIGGA—that reveal him as a posturing teenager rather than
a choirboy. (“Lol so daisha think she a boss caus she walked in class
late 2day…I do dat everyday,” says one.) The story notes that the
photograph attached to the account depicts Martin “smiling,
gold-toothed, into a camera in front of an electronic dartboard.”
Meanwhile the media was flooded with the news, if one could call it
that, that Martin was once suspended from school for possession of a
plastic baggie with marijuana residue on it.

“They’ve
killed my son, and now they’re trying to kill his reputation,” Martin’s
mother, Sybrina Fulton, said after the suspension story broke.

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