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White supremacist claims he hacked Trayvon's email
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A white supremacist hacker claims to have broken into Trayvon Martin's email and social networking accounts and posted his private messages online.
"I realize that some of this information might be to [sic] extreme to believe," a hacker named Klanklannon wrote, according to Gawker, which has an original copy of the message thread posted to the popular, unruly message board 4chan. "That's why I offer you evidence. Here are my sources."
Editor's note: Some readers may find language in this article objectionable.
A slide posted to the message board titled "Trayvon Martin Used Marijuana Habitually," apparently shows a conversation between Martin and a friend about getting high. Another alleged that Martin was a drug dealer and showed a picture of Martin standing "aggressively with a large amount of cash in his hand."
Gawker reported that Klankannon shared several of Martin's usernames and email accounts on the thread. The hacker also said that the passwords had been changed to racist slurs like "niggerniggernigger" and "coontrayvonnigger."
Martin, 17, was shot and killed by self-appointed neighborhood watch member George Zimmerman as Martin returned to his father's house in Sanford, Fla., on the night of Feb. 26. Zimmerman claimed that Martin looked "suspicious" in a 911 call. Not long after the call, Martin and Zimmerman engaged in a fight, and Zimmerman shot Martin in the chest. Zimmerman was not charged in the shooting, which has sparked a national outcry and drawn considerable media attention.
A much-circulated photo of a grimacing teen with his middle finger extended -- that many right-leaning sites have suggested is the Trayvon Martin the "mainstream media" does not want the public to see -- was also originally circulated on the white supremacist site stormfront.org, according to the Columbia Journalism Review. The person in that photo was not Martin, but another teenager who shared the name.
Slate's political reporter Dave Weigel, who has long covered the conservative movement, said that the misattributed photo was "part of a new cottage industry of 'truth about Trayvon' content, calibrated to convince people that they really shouldn't worry about the implications of this killing."
"Why, the kid wasn't even a saint!" Weigel said of the logic of such conservative sites. "He might have been shot after brawling with the man who creeply [sic] followed him around the gated community?"
But Gawker's Adrian Chen wrote that the attempts to smear Martin have backfired "because the picture they paint is of a normal high school junior preparing for college."
A screenshot of Trayvon's Gmail inbox our source provided us is heartbreaking. Martin apparently used his Gmail account for his college search, and it's filled with emails about upcoming SAT tests and scholarship applications. ("Trayvon, now is the best time to take the SATs!") One email included the results of a career aptitude test, our source said. It "talked about his interest in aeronautics and stuff."
This is not the first time Martin's online life has made the news. Earlier this week, conservative site Daily Caller obtained and posted messages from Martin's since-deleted Twitter account that date back to the beginning of the year. When The Huffington Post talked to the Caller's executive editor, David Martosko, who published Martin's tweets under his byline, Martosko said that he did so because his audience was hungry for information about the Martin shooting and the two people involved.
"These were not protected tweets," Martosko said. "While he was alive, these were not outside of the public sphere in any shape or form."
Martosko said that the Caller ran Martin's tweets "without value judgment," and would that he would publish Zimmerman's tweets if he was made aware of an account opened and used by Zimmerman.
ETA: source http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/29/white-supremacist-trayvon-martin-email_n_1389584.html
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Re: White supremacist claims he hacked Trayvon's email
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I am confused. I wouldn't think a white supremacist would feel the need to prove Trayvon had it coming. Shouldn't they just be celebrating that a young black man is dead.
I may have to swear off of any more of this story. I am really heading in a bad place in my head.
because I can't think of any white people who smoke weed.... FFS
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Only dirty hippies smoke weed. They aren't a threat to anyone because they are still stuck at Woodstock.
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Dude, that's, like, totally untrue. Right now we're currently occupying a latte at the local coffeehouse.
Even if it's true, none of this fuuking matters.
Zimmerman couldn't have known any of this when he chose to follow him. He had no reason to suspect any of this when he chose to follow him. Who Trayvon Martin was is pretty much irrelevant to the conversation.
The only relevant information if it exists would be something that indicates Trayvon would have responded violently without provocation as Zimmerman has been trying to convince us. So unless Trayvon had a habit of just punching people for no good reason, none of this other shiit matters.
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So, like where is the picture in your siggie taken? Woodstock or the new Woodstock that is Bonnaroo?
This is what you choose to pick up on?
I love you Pamela but really.
Neonazis/fascists are on the right of the political specturm, and neo communists are on the left. That much is true.
Now, in the American context does "right leaning" mean something else? I don't know. I'll do think that Conservative (capital c) means something different, and that point is lost on a lot of people, so I think you have a fair argument there.
I am starting to be really annoyed by this as well.
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There's so much bullshit all around here, and I agree, that counts as part of it.
Santa Monica. No, wait, maybe San Francisco? Santa Cruz? It's totally San something. We're, like, all over man.
I do think it's a point worth discussing.
We should all be talking about this case but nothing is going to be accomplished by making it sound like most conservatives are racist douchebags and few liberals have stereotypical or flat our racist thoughts about black folks. The blanket statement that conservatives don't get/don't want to get this topic is damaging to the overall dialogue.
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I guess I'll just follow you around the internets, "ditto"ing you. (...not in a dirty way.)
It makes it hard to have any real conversations about it, because everyone is on the super defensive.
I do agree with this too HAB. I think there should be outrage all over the spectrum, and the right-wing whack jobs trying to discredit Trayvon are crazy as road lizards and folks need to call them on the carpet on this dirtbaggery.
This is why I need you guys in my head. I am starting to feel it is an all in thing. KWIM
Which is why I'm annoyed that legit labels like conservative/right wing are being tied to it.
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But you don't need to label them right wing or conservatives to call them out though.
"Right wing azzbag Racist McRacism is a doucher." vs "Azzbag Racist McRacism is a doucher."
Going with the second rather than the first doesn't lessen the impact of the call out. It's especially annoying when it seems like the writer of the column, post, editorial, etc is going out of their way to shove the word conservative/right wing in there as often as possible.
I find it particularly offensive as a conservative black woman. But I didn't want to climb on a soap box about it because it would distracting from the important point to do so, at least for me. However, the more articles that come out, the more I think it's worthy of addressing as a side note. It still shouldn't dominate the discussion.
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Honestly HAB, this is why the GOP gets heavily criticized for ignoring these discussions and pushing them off as a figment of black and brown people's imagination. It's the reason why a lot of black people would rather walk on hot coals than vote for Republicans. It does the party a grave disservice to cast these discussions to the side an paint everyone as Angry Black or Illegal Immigrants. Instead, let's scoop up all the Thomas Sowells of the world an embrace them. *shakes head*
Oh I agree but that's also why I get frustrated because I feel like the left takes advantage of that.
The GOP spends too much time screaming WE'RE NOT RACIST and not enough time addressing those concerns. And the dems are quick to link the GOP with racism precisely because the GOP will put more effort into denying it, kwim?
Meanwhile, the left can claim they are the least racist party without actually doing much to address causes pertaining to race either. Aka, we haven't done shiit to address racial disparity in this country on a meaningful level but at least there are more black faces at our conventions, nanny nanny boo boo. VOTE FOR US!
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I couldn't have said it better myself.