Thread by @ElieNYC

Did @SavannahGuthrie interview Trayvon Martin? No, he was too dead to go on the Nick Sandmann rehabilitation tour. It's cool though, because Sandmann told Guthrie he was standing his ground.
Did she interview Tamir Rice? No, he was dead. Too bad he didn't have a chance to pray.

Did she interview Michael Brown? No, he was dead. Did she interview Eric Garner? No, he was dead. Did she interview Alton Sterling? No, he was dead. Did she interview LaQuan McDonald? No, he was dead. Did she interview Freddie Gray? No, he was dead.

Did she interview Walter Scott? No, he was dead. Did she interview Terrance Crutcher? No, he was dead. Did she interview Philando Castile? Will she interview the BABY that was in the backseat when he Castile was shot to death? No. That baby is INVISIBLE to them.

MY KIDS WILL NOT GET AN INTERVIEW WITH @SavannahGuthrie . They will be dead in the street as their side of the story bleeds into the gutter. At which point somebody will tell me not to "rush to judgement" until we've heard their MURDERERS explain how my kid got a B on a math test

Sorry, just trying to present "both sides" of the story. White boys get to LIVE LONG ENOUGH to tell their side. They can wear a racist uniform and laugh and smirk and still go on TV and claim they are "not racist," while white people nod along approvingly.

Black boys don't get a PR firm. They don't get a rehabilitation interview on TV. They get to DIE. Rush to judgement? Black boys don't even get rushed to the goddamn hospital.

And white people KNOW THIS. But still, when they have a chance to rehabilitate a racist white boy, they can't resist.

You know why the MAGA hat doesn't come with a hood? Because these racist white boys figured out the media wants to help them out.

Every day, there is a VICTIM of white supremacy that the media could focus on. Instead, it's the perpetrators of white supremacy that enjoy the benefit of the doubt.

Now in post form

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