White Supremacist Hacks Trayvon Martin’s Email Account, Leaks Messages Online, As an alleged ‘smear campaign’ makes him out to be a thug.

The racist smear campaign against Trayvon Martin, the unarmed black teen shot to death last month in Florida, has reached a new level of ghoulishness. A white supremacist hacker says he’s broken into Martin’s email and social networking accounts, and leaked his private Facebook messages.

The hacker, who goes by the name Klanklannon, posted what he said were Martin’s private Facebook messages to the politics section (NSFW) of the anarchic message board 4chan—called “/pol/”—Tuesday afternoon at around noon. The messages were posted on four slides, strategically arranged to back up the insane racist argument that Trayvon was a Scary Black Teenager and so somehow deserved to be killed by neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman that night. 

A slide titled “Trayvon Martin Used Marijuana Habitually,” features an exchange between Trayvon and a friend about getting high. Another slide, “Trayvon Martin was a Drug Dealer” features Facebook messages and photos that supposedly prove Martin dealt drugs, including a picture of Martin posing “aggressively with a large amount of cash in his hand.” It’s impossible to verify the hacked messages’ authenticity—like other anti-Trayvon Martin propaganda, they’re probably amix of real and fake content— but they are now being passed around as gospel among the racist underbelly of the internet.more

The thug-ification of Trayvon Martin:

Smear campaign distracts from the

case

The victim-blaming machine that is normally reserved for high profile rape cases has reared its head in the case of Trayvon Martin. The spin has begun in the media to muddy the waters and place blame on the teenage victim Trayvon Martin.

Also circulating the web are unauthenticated photographs of a young black teenager said to be Trayvon, shirtless, pants sagging, and throwing up gang signs. This photo is coupled with another picture of George Zimmerman where he is smiling and in a suit. By posting these questionably sourced pictures of Martin, which depict him as stereotypical black male thug, it makes it much easier to believe that the kid with the skittles might actually be suspicious somehow, validating Zimmerman’s racial bias.

Commenters over at Breitbart.com, not to be outdone, described Trayvon as a “thug” and “another black punk who got what he deserved.” Apparently, according to those who wish to stereotype Travyon Martin, the punishment for being male, brown and imperfect is death.

There are also reports circulating that Trayvon might have been suspected of stealing jewelry in the past (although police could not find any evidence of this during their investigation) and that Trayvon had recently been suspended from school for having what was thought to be an empty bag of marijuana. Both of these stories about Trayvon are irrelevant to the question of whether George Zimmerman should be punished for his killing.