MPR QotD

[lsanderson]

The shooting death last month of an unarmed black teen-ager in Florida has sparked conversations about racial profiling, neighborhood watch groups, gated communities and equal justice. Today's Question: What's your take on the Trayvon Martin shooting and the controversy that followed it?

My answer after the cut

It looks like an open and shut case to me. The kid was obviously guilty of WWB; I mean, what else could the other guy do than shoot him dead? Besides, skittles and ice tea in a can? The kid'd be dead in seventy or eighty years anyway, so what difference could it possibly make if he got taken out a bit early?

My heart goes out to the family of the shooter. I mean, it must be terrible to have to live with so much press, when hardly anyone has asked him to their talk show to help celebrate his 15 minutes of fame. Life just isn't fair.

Comments

[mle292.livejournal.com]

I did not previously realize that Public Radio hosted their "uniformed opinion" format on the web, but I should have known. Those "news" pieces where they interview random jackasses on something complex - Journalistic GOLD. I expect nothing but good will come of this.