Preach, Chid! The conservative Republican blogger sees a double standard among many in the White Right: "The right’s hypocritical and immoral coverage of the
Trayvon Martin case completely eroded the trust I once had in the
conservative media. The right’s hypocrisy can be further seen in the
differences between how they covered that case with Trayvon [who was unarmed, and shot by George Zimmerman because he looked 'suspicious' in a neighborhood where his relatives lived], and how
they are now covering this case with the Connecticut shooter. Some of
their key arguments in the Trayvon case are conspicuously absent in this
Adam Lanza case. The lamentable conclusion that I must come to is that
the right-wing media believes that the black victim, Trayvon Martin, is
more deserving of anathematization than the white murderer [in the Connecticut school mass shooting], Adam Lanza."
He continues his commentary: "As I said in my piece
about the Colorado theater shooting, there was no right-wing outrage
over Obama’s statement showing empathy with the families of the dead
kids by saying that those children could have been his own. Obama made
similar remarks about the dead children in this fatal Connecticut
shooting, as he did after Trayvon’s killing. The only statement that the
right-wing media pounced on as evidence of Obama’s intolerable
presidential malpractice was the statement Obama made about Trayvon. Why
is that? The fundamental point is that Obama is allowed to show empathy
for the loss of white life, but he dare not empathize
with the family of a black 'thug' like Trayvon. His doing so, according
to their warped logic, not only 'wades into a local law enforcement
matter,' but is also 'race-baiting.'"
More commentary from Mr. Okeem, about the hypocrisy: "Interestingly, the same 'conservatives' who were
incensed at the fact that an outdated picture of dead Trayvon was used
in news stories are conspicuously silent about the media using a
childhood picture of the 20-year-old killer, Adam Lanza. In point of
fact, they are using the childhood picture themselves! Where is the
outrage? Why is there no commentary about how heinous it is for the
media to use an outdated, childhood picture of an actual killer? More
importantly, why are they continuing to use the picture?"
He ain't done just yet about the double standard: "The fact of the matter is that the right-wing media
couldn’t care less about outdated pictures. They were simply grasping at
whatever straws they could to make Trayvon into a 'black gangsta' worthy of death for the felony of walking down the street while wearing a
hoodie, and while armed with the notoriously lethal weapons commonly
known as Skittles and Arizona juice. It’s a shame, but
they were more interested in anathematizing Trayvon than they are in
anathematizing Adam Lanza, an actual killer. While Republican elites eat their expensive caviar and
drink their fine Champagne while telling themselves that the sole reason
minorities voted for Obama is because of 'free stuff,' it will never
occur to them that their disgusting reactions to stories like the
Trayvon killing are incredibly important in shaping how black people
feel about the Republican Party. They don’t know that minorities watch
them very closely during these kinds of stories — and they remember when
they go to the voting booth."
Chidike Okeem: "To Right-Wing Hypocrites, Trayvon Martin Is Guiltier Than Adam Lanza"
