[kevcol]

Lonnie Bunch:


I wonder how much the (tax payer funded) Smithsonian would pay the parents for this Hoodie and what Al Sharpton's cut would be?

Also, from the referenced Washington Post article about this:

“I would like to see it preserved,” the Rev. Al Sharpton proclaimed into a cellphone on his way to a White House meeting about voting rights with President Obama.

Sharpton, more than any other person, might be responsible for bringing the Martin killing to trial. He organized the huge rally in Sanford that brought such pressure on Florida officials that the governor eventually appointed a special prosecutor to take on the case.

Sharpton is imagining what it would be like if we could see a snatch of clothing worn by Emmett Till, the 14-year-old who became a civil rights icon because he was killed after being accused of flirting with a white woman in 1950s Mississippi. Martin is this generation’s Emmett Till, Sharpton says. He calls the unarmed teenager’s death by a bullet that first pierced his hoodie, and then pierced his heart, the first civil rights flash point of the 21st century

[svcw]

vomit

[tet68]

Shroud of Trayvon Bump.

[Red Badger]

He’ll have to get it from the ‘Just Us Department’............

[TurboZamboni]

What’s next, a Lincoln memorial sized Saint Trayvon statue?

[Irenic]

Foolishness.

[ladyjane]

but...but...the Shroud of St. Tray-von of Skittles is a holy relic.

Not only that - it’s tray-ed marked.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Martin is this generation’s Emmett Till, Sharpton says.

More like Horst Wessel.

[sappy]

Used once. Small hole and stain.

[glorgau]

What they really need to display is the Blue Dress and the Oval Office sink.

[New Jersey Realist]

They better keep it away from Archie Bunker’s chair!

[ExCTCitizen]

Lonnie Bunch, the director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture

He shortened his name. His Last name is 'BUNCHOFMORONS'

Remind me to NOT TO GO TO THE SMITHSONIAN ever again. A hoodie worn by a THUG? Why not the skittles and the ice tea, too?

[Hardraade]

Give them the skull. For the neanderthal shelves. The Director can reserve a space right next to it.

[ryan71]

In 30 years, it will be an important symbol in the left’s communist revolution. So they think.

[TigersEye]

Celebrate the cracka stompin’ thug life!

[BuddaBudd]

I want to see the hole in it

[Yaelle]

Disgusting. If I were black I’d be so insulted that ONLY BECAUSE OF OUR SKIN COLOR / RACE, the Smithsonian in utter political correctness patronization would glorify the clothing worn by a vicious thug teen who would beat up a neighborhood watch guy who dared to question him.

I am insulted even though I’m not black.

[NotYourAverageDhimmi]

He calls the unarmed teenager’s death by a bullet that first pierced his hoodie, and then pierced his heart, the first civil rights flash point of the 21st century.

Seeing how blown out of proportion the Trayvon matter is and how the people claiming a civil rights violation are almost always those clinging to completely inaccurate facts, it makes me question the accuracy of the civil rights cases we've been taught as gospel.

[Iron Munro]

I wonder if he is also interested in Trayvon’s backpack.
The one that contained the stolen jewelry and burgler tool.

Or is this just a not so sly way doing some creative wealth redistribution by purchasing a worthless rag at an inflated price using taxpayer money.

[JoeProBono]

[Slyfox]

SMITHSONIAN'S "FAMOUS ARTIFACTS"