Dear [MENTION=16291]Harry Dresden[/MENTION] and [MENTION=46316]dannyboys[/MENTION]:
From a broader perspective, this painting portrays
what the media did to "paint" both sides with a broad brush
to INCITE people as much as possible. This was very sad.
It hurt and angered people on both sides, deliberately playing and baiting them to attack.
For example, not one person I knew who sided with Trayvon Martin
heard a thing about the Iced Tea and Skittles being used to make Drank/Lean.
The people I shared this with were SHOCKED to hear any such "rumors" were going around. They had no idea this is the information that was making the rightwing opponents so angry about portraying both people so skewed in opposite directions deliberately.
Both sides blame each other for the skewed biases,
but I found very few willing to blame the media for setting people up.
Like deliberately feeding both sides the most inciteful information to slam the other.
Neither side could see they were being played equally. Very sad
and it caused such extreme damage on top of the suffering that had built up to this point.
People on both sides were projecting all their fed up anger onto this case.
So that is what I feel this painting best represents.
how skewed and inciteful the media images were to get people jumping all over each other.
I don't fault the people for not understanding.
they did not get the same information from the same sources,
and were both informed that the "other side is lying"
but neither could see all the information that the other side had,
so they both thought there was manipulation going on "but only on the other side."
Very messed up. Both families deserved better than to be used as whipping boys for the rest of the nation's leftover grief and anger with racial injustice in the media, courts and confrontations. this brought out the very worst, so I hope this case is used to hash out all the old issues and get this straight for once in history and quit projecting over and over.
Thank you for sharing this painful image that reminds me what happened with the media
Just horrible and I would not wish anyone to suffer what either
man or their family went through. My sympathy and support to all who
felt injury and injustice associated or represented by this case. take care!
To heck with Zimmy's crappy work.
I would gladly pay 100k for this
original painting. Unfortunately, eBay wouldn't let him sell it.
eBay removes anti-Zimmerman artwork the same day Zimmerman?s painting sells for $100k | The Raw Story
yea the kid was that young....