I had my share of internet for the day…
I should have known something was up with Tuesday, March 27th, 2012… When I stepped out this morning… the Hawk had made a quick visit back to the District and I immediately thought… “Damn, I should have thrown on a hoodie…” Which has, of course, taking on a whole new meaning in the recent weeks…
During my normal rounds of morning website visits… I came across several articles that are now “shedding light” on Trayvon’s character… Last week, he was shot because he was sporting a hoodie… This week, it’s believed he was shot and killed because he was suspended for possession of trace amounts of marijuana… and we all know nothing says… “I deserve to be shot to death like having experimented with drugs.” Then there’s the growing suspicion that his twitter handle “No Limit Nigga” was the culprit… Surely, a teenager’s timeline filled with words without vowels are the tell-tale signs of a soon-to-be murder victim… It only makes sense… But I have a hunch, once they realize he wore socks AND used shoelaces… Case closed. It wasn’t a grown ass man who shot Trayvon… it was all of the random ass connections the media has made that resulted in his death…
Speaking of Twitter…
Hunger Games premiered last week… and the crowds went wild… 3rd best domestic debut ever… it is the anti-John Carter… however, when you have that type of mass appeal… You’re bound to snag some of the crazies… loons… numb-skulls… dip-shits… fuck-tards… and assholes of the world… and there’s no better web to catch them than Twitter… Apparently, there’s a character in the novel named “Rue”… in the book her character is described as “has dark brown skin and eyes, but other than that’s she’s very like Prim in size and demeanor…” Now, I haven’t read the book… but from what I can gather… “she’s a black girl similar shape and nature to some white girl named Prim… I’m not certain how fans/readers… scratch that… some fans/readers assumed it would be a white girl playing Rue… but once they saw the movie… a la Thor… they raised Hell… and not Hell in the sense of fiery anger… but Hell as in… these idiots need to promptly reside in said locale… here are some of the “Prospects to Hell” tweets… via HungerGameTweets on Tumblr.
At this point… my mind is racing to create a post to speak on a discussion I had with a co-worker last week about “moving forward” from memory of hatred and prejudice… in my co-worker’s opinion the only way to get from it is to simply change your view and “forget yesterday…” …a stance of which I completely shot down and attempted to shed light as to why you can never forget the feeling and outrage that occurred with the murder of Emmett Till and the eerie parallels with the death of Trayvon Martin…
But I didn’t create that post…I googled the actress playing Rue… and discovered Amandla Stenberg… a young Black girl who looks similar to my youngest sister Morre’… much like Kaing Obama spoke about if he had a son… he would look like Trayvon… and imagined how I’d feel if those tweets were directed towards her… it was only 2 levels above what I was feeling for Amandla…
“No Rue for you!!!”
Feeling a little depressed about the “fight” that still persists… I attempted to seek refuge in a message board I frequent affectionately known as #thatsite… however, that only lead me to this clip…
Warning: the clip features child abuse… and was posted on the board seeking translation and to point out the fact the girl (see: victim) in the clip doesn’t appear to shed a single tear…
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG-RNhUcd2k]
There’s so much wrong in this video…
Thanks Internet… I’m logging off.
We’ll try it again tomorrow…
– dre’
