Anti-Mexican rant on myspace was in fact Zimmerman's, Herald has confirmed. #trayvon
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Frances Robles (@RoblesHerald) May 01, 2012The Twitterverse is apoplectic over a recently excavated MySpace profile reportedly used by George Zimmerman as recently as—gasp!—2005. The long abandoned profile includes disparaging comments about Mexicans and Zimmerman’s ex-fiance.
And you know what that means? Guilty!
Wow dude! Do you really believe that Mexicans just go around stabbing people? Lock this dude up!
A.Y. fb.me/23NlM1MAo—
Gasoline Dream (@gasoline_dream) May 01, 2012
So. They found Zimmerman's myspace page. If he doesnt get convicted after the shit thats said up there then I give up on this country.—
Tajah-Yasmeen (@TajahYasmeen) May 01, 2012
Ya see this bit.ly/Kst9t8 Now tell me should his ass be in jail!!—
La'Teshia-B 80 Proof (@LaTeshiaB) May 01, 2012
So, the social media accounts used by Trayvon Martin shortly before his death are irrelevant and off-limits, but we should convict Zimmerman of murder based on some ugly language posted on a 7-year-old MySpace account? Gotcha.
Benjamin Crump, the attorney for Trayvon Martin’s family, is using the MySpace postings to bolster his argument that Zimmerman is a racist.
Crump on #Zimmerman myspace: "It's 1 thing to think it, but to TYPE it? U had to really have ill will + malice. U really gotta be racist."—
Frances Robles (@RoblesHerald) May 02, 2012
Crump tells me #Zimmerman's anti-Mexican comments on MySpace show "a pattern of profiling." Story here: bit.ly/JMcWzo #Trayvon—
Frances Robles (@RoblesHerald) May 02, 2012
Others in the anti-Zimmerman mob see the MySpace postings as proof that he is an inauthentic or self-loathing Hispanic:
Wow So George Zimmerman who claims to be 'hispanic' hates Mexicans- what a piece of work he is! bit.ly/JKwjd2 #Trayvon—
Davey D (@mrdaveyd) May 02, 2012
Self-hating than a b… RT @RoblesHerald: Anti-Mexican rant on myspace was in fact Zimmerman's, Herald has confirmed. #trayvon—
Rad Pitt (@radseed) May 01, 2012
George Zimmerman was trying to "pass". he hates himself, that's why he was on myspace talking abt hitting Mexicans w his car & later "coons"—
Ferrari Sheppard (@stopbeingfamous) May 02, 2012
Sound familiar? “Self-hating” and similar jabs are favored by leftists as a means of discrediting and punishing racial minorities, gays, women, and anyone else who disrupts their narratives.
Is Zimmerman a bigot?
The remarks on his MySpace profile are certainly troubling. But they’re also 7 years old. Note how that detail is lost on those who refuse to question Zimmerman’s guilt:
Zimmerman has a MYSPACE…….ummm MYSPACE tho, he know nobody dnt eff with Myspace no more so he can talk about the blacks and Latinos smh—
PulchritudinousIAM (@IntensityBrandX) May 01, 2012
“@rolandsmartin: George #Zimmerman’s Myspace: Every Mexican Pulled A Knife – bit.ly/IF4p50” he still has myspace?!—
(@lhammock) May 02, 2012
#HologramTupac found George Zimmerman's secret @MySpace page; Proof he is a #racist! #JusticeForTrayvon cdn.mediatakeout.com/55762/mto-supe… RT—
Hologram Tupac (@804streetmonsta) May 01, 2012
In the pursuit of justice, it’s more than fair to look at information that might speak to Zimmerman’s character. But distorting that information and not holding others to the same standard perverts the very idea of justice.
