George Zimmerman takes a victory lap over Trayvon Martin’s grave

The Miami Herald ^ | May 17, 2016 | Leonard Pitts, Jr.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Selling the gun that killed Trayvon Martin adds to the travesty over his unpunished homicide

Marketing the gun is more than bad taste — it’s a national shame

The murder has been ‘commodified,’ turned into a trophy for display

It was not enough just to kill Sam Hose. No, they had to make souvenirs out of him.

Hose was an African-American man lynched by a mob of some 2,000 white women and men in 1899 near the town of Newnan, Ga. They did all the usual things. They stabbed him, castrated him, skinned his face, mutilated him, burned him alive.

Then they parceled out pieces of his body.

You could buy a small fragment of his bones for a quarter. A piece of his liver, “crisply cooked,” would set you back a dime. The great African-American scholar, W.E.B. DuBois, reported that Hose’s knuckles were for sale in a grocer’s window in Atlanta.

No, it wasn’t enough just to kill Sam Hose. People needed mementos of the act.

Apparently, it wasn’t enough just to kill Trayvon Martin, either...

[2ndDivisionVet]

Will they still be hearkening back to Jim Crow, lynchings and the KKK two hundred years from now?

[Reno89519]

Zimmerman has not had an easy time so maybe the money will help him move on.

[Roos_Girl]

No, those words will have been outlawed by then and removed from every textbook.

[Lazamataz]

I want Travon Martin’s knuckles as a souvenier, not Zimmerman’s gun.

[Mr. Mojo]

A "national shame?" What a drama queen.

Pitts probably thinks Obama is a national treasure.

[piytar]

Yup. It will still continue to be the only way they can try to justify their failures as contributors to the world.

Well, that’s if the world is still here, which I doubt.

[Talisker]

Good lord, this article is utterly shameless.

The white hate racism here, against an innocent man, is criminal incitement.

[Paladin2]

GZ is a bit off, as it turns out....

[867V309]

My only regret is that I couldn’t buy zimmerman’s keltec. That gun was well broken-in.

[dsc]

Dear Mr. Pitts:

FU.

FOAD.

Sincerely,

dsc

[M-cubed]

well said Laz!...well said

(u get it!) despite your horn-dog ways

[Fred Nerks]

Leonard Pitts jr.

[CyberAnt]

I want to know when these people will begin to describe what Travon Martin did to George. Somehow that info is never exposed.

[867V309]

Zimmerman probably saved more than his own life that night.

It's clear the druggie thug travon was headed to a life of crime. zimmerman did society a favor, no doubt about it.

[Ken H]

FULP This is a very recent example of what your people do to mine =>

[Radix]

I am quite glad that the punk kid is dead.

[TheDon]

Leo is quite the drama queen. I guess the guy has to make a living too.

[Darteaus94025]

Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Trayvon’s mother and father all tried to make a buck over Trayvon’s body. Why shouldn’t the the true victim of the media lynching do the same?

How is that morally wrong , and the others occurred without condemnation?

Because of the bigots in the media.

[Fred Nerks]

Man accused in stabbing death of 11-year-old boy captured