Posted on 03/26/2012 4:07:07 PM PDT by Starman417
When a story regarding the Trayvon Martin death appears, it is almost universally accompanied by this image:
It is of a Trayvon Martin years younger than he really was. And it's not accurate. Dan Linehan has done some sleuthing and found a much different picture of Trayvon Martin than the one being forced down our throats. The real Trayvon Martin is being scrubbed as you read this.
This is a more recent image of Trayvon Martin
And so is this:
It seems that Tray was also on Twitter, but his account seems to have been recently deleted by his family or friends.
His screen name was “@NO_LIMIT_NIGGA, as you can see from the twitpic account screenshot above. He was also a member of a twitter hash group #team4dat.
At first, I was skeptical that anyone would maintain an account with that sort of derogatory slur in the title, but after doing some research, it’s apparent that it was Trayvon’s account.
The account was in existence long before the shooting occurred a few weeks ago, and was deleted only recently, there are still dozens of references to @NO_LIMIT_NIGGA in google’s cache.
The associated twitpic account matches the account name and is still online at the time of publication. Most of the pics were uploaded months ago, so this account was associated with Trayvon long before the shooting took place.
Several of Tray’s friends have been very open about referring to Trayvon using that account as well. His cousin, who is quite active on Twitter, refers to Trayvon more than a dozen times using the @NO_LIMIT_NIGGA nickname.
Apparently the account has been terminated but Google has lots of cached references.
Trayvon referred to himself as "Slimm" in his Twitter account and his Facebook account.
He had friends in gangs, if he was not in one himself, and there is a question as to whether Martin was active in the drug trade.
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
I didn’t want to say f**king.
You need to find better friends...
Seriously? I missed that tidbit.
Was someone in your family frightened by a blog?
This revelation came from a Tweet that supposedly came from his brother. If you were the bus driver would you want to insert yourself into this media fire storm?
I am having a hard time finding even my own posts tonight.
I am trying to go back and find the sources however. The tag line is more of a reminder to myself not to get to worked up over stuff I read on the Internet... so thanks for mentioning it. This story has become a huge distraction.
Thanks for mentioning. This is a Tom Wolfe I haven’t read. For anyone wondering what is happening today, a good background is Tom Wolfes’ “Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers”. “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test” made me sad about the mind we lost when Ken Kesey turned to drugs. I will pick up “Bonfire of the Vanities”.
This situation is very close to what’s happening in the novel.
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