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| What will become of Trayvon's hoodie, the latest piece of iconic trial evidence? | |
| 2013-08-01 | |
Shroud of Trayvon headed for Smithsonian? Probably not, but what a hook. WashPo via Drudge, of course. Mainly an excuse for first posting attempt. Please instruct/edit/delete/ban as necessary.
[Washington Post] In the moment that the hoodie -- Trayvon Martin's hoodie -- appeared in Courtroom 5D in Seminole County, Fla., it was as if the air sluiced out the door. There was a breathless, aching stillness. Prosecutors displayed the dark gray sweatshirt that Martin wore on the last night of his life in an enormous, rectangular, thickly three-dimensional frame. The hoodie lay suspended between clear plastic sheets with its arms spread wide inside a cross-shaped cutout, set starkly apart from the brilliant white of the matting. It might easily have been mistaken for a religious relic, even as it became a singularly evocative entry in a long inventory of indelible courtroom artifacts from O.J. Simpson's ill-fitting gloves to Lorena Bobbitt's emasculating kitchen knife. Prosecutors lifted the framed hoodie awkwardly, teetering toward the jury. "I get goose bumps just thinking about it," says Michael Skolnik, who sat next to Martin's parents on that morning, the day before the Fourth of July. Skolnik, the political director for hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons and a member of the Trayvon Martin Foundation board, felt as if he were in the presence of something as consequential and iconic as Babe Ruth's bat or the Declaration of Independence. "It's like this mythical garment," he says. 'Twas very far away indeed From Washington the deed was done: That creepy cracker drew a bead, And killed our savior's only son. The bloody hoodie's scarcely dried; Alike the tears of Trayvon's peeps; Let's waste no time lest hate subside For white Hispanic cracker creeps: On this green Mall, all in the dark, Let's meet and play the knockout game; No Limit N---a, History's arc Will ever echo with your fame. Sizzurp, that made that hero dare, To push and punch and bring affray, Relaxate us and ease our care As we remember baby Tray. | |
| Posted by:Zenobia Floger6220 |
| #8 |
| Posted by: Maggie Platypus7681 2013-08-01 13:46 |
| #7 Y'all have forgotten that MLK was an attention Whore, very similar to Jesse Jackson, I lived in Montgomery at the time, and he was no better than any other Race Baiting Hustler. Hardly someone famous, more Infamous. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2013-08-01 10:24 |
| #6 If there is to be a 30 foot statue, I would ask that it, please not be sculpted in Xiamen China, and that it contain no erroneous quotes. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-08-01 10:03 |
| #5 Socialist need martyred heroes to motivate the base. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-08-01 08:47 |
| #4 It might easily have been mistaken for a religious relic, It is to some. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-08-01 07:45 |
| #3 Fiber tests for the local burglary spate that coincidentally stopped when he was. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2013-08-01 05:32 |
| #2 A Star is Born! Bravo! |
| Posted by: Shipman 2013-08-01 04:20 |
| #1 "I get goose bumps just thinking about it," says Michael Skolnik From tingle down the leg to goose bumps. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2013-08-01 02:49 |