Despite the screams from within those with emotional rabid biases on the Trayvon Martin VS George Zimmerman case, to discuss “Character” is not “smear”, nor is it racist.
If Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton are going to go on national TV to wage a media campaign with Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and their team of more than half a dozen lawyers, denouncing George Zimmerman to be a “racist vigilante”, and “wannabe cop” while decrying their son as angelic victim they have introduced the “character” aspect into this discussion.
No-one knows what happened in that 1:30 seconds of unwitnessed and unrecorded face to face confrontation between Trayvon and George. However, if the background behavior and history of Mr. Zimmerman is “vital to the case”, then so too is it necessary and appropriate to apply the same standard of understanding to the behavior and history of young Martin.
It is beyond hypocritical, not to mention ridiculous, to claim that only the “character” of one participant in a two person confrontation matters. Indeed I would argue that if Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton are going to claim Trayvon’s “reputation is under attack”, then it becomes even more important to discover what are the definitions being applied to the determination of “reputation”.
Is only the reputation of Trayvon Martin at risk? Ridiculous. George Zimmerman has been skewered up, down, sideways and inside out, by all manner of rabid attack. Yet Zimmerman’s reputation, or consideration for his reputation is what, irrelevant?
The folks over at Wagist have been doing exceptional work on research and discovery for both Zimmerman and Martin. They provide the following consideration:
(Wagist) Trayvon’s character matters deeply in this case.
Since this shooting has become an extremely polarizing national news item, everyone involved requires scrutiny. That especially holds true for Trayvon, since his actions on the night of the shooting are truly at the heart of all of this.
We have to ask ourselves, “Was Trayvon the sort of person who would viciously attack and beat Zimmerman, as Zimmerman claims?” To answer that question, we have to know as much as we can about Trayvon and how he conducted himself.
The media has spent an inordinate amount of time looking into Zimmerman’s background. For a long while the same scrutiny was not applied to Martin. That has changed now somewhat. As more facts are coming out about who Martin was, the image many people had of him turned out to be very inaccurate.
Trayvon no longer seems to be the innocent victim the media initially portrayed him as.
This is not a smear campaign. It’s not blaming the victim. In fact, Martin wasn’t the victim if he unilaterally assaulted and viciously beat Zimmerman, as every piece of evidence currently seems to suggest. (read more)
Much, if not all, of what we have outlined on this site regarding the Trayvon Martin case is in response to the need for pushback against the false narrative of the media.
In short, the media has painted a completely false picture of both Trayvon the angelic innocent victim and George Zimmerman the racist, hate-mongering, vigilante cop wannabe.
The pushback is against the media, Not against either Zimmerman OR Martin.
However, it is brutally obvious the emotions are insanely high from those with opinions formulated by the insufferable lying bias of the legacy media. “They told me so it must be true”….
Those emotions are being ramped up by the Legacy Media doubling down on the lies, obfuscations and manipulations. Mix in the mob mentality of Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and The New Black Panther’s hate based rhetoric which the media is more than happy to sensationalize, and you have created the recipe for massive division.
This is happening at such a level that many people who customarily allow their opinions to be influenced by the media are now visibly incapable of drawing distinction between an attack against the media, and an attack against Trayvon et al.
If pushing back against the media lying is equivalent to attacking Trayvon Martin, then what does that tell you about the messaging from the media and who they are aligned with?
