Romanticization of a Hood - What will become of Trayvon’s hoodie, the latest piece of iconic trial evidence?

Icons of Idiocy!
Here is an unintended, or maybe intended, consequence of the lunacy from turning a phony photos showing an innocent twelve year old in place of the reality of a seventeen year old delinquent. These lies come back to haunt us all. m/r

What will become of Trayvon’s hoodie, the latest piece of iconic trial evidence? - The Washington Post

By Manuel Roig-Franzia   - 7-30-13

ift everything. Sift the weeks of testimony, the theatrics, the recriminations, the tears. Sift the months of noisy commentary — the relentless, pounding, grating noise.

One image remains, clinging there to our consciousness. Sturdy, permanent, enduring, a distillation — a takeaway.

In the moment that the hoodie — Trayvon Martin’s hoodie — appeared in Courtroom 5D in Seminole County, Fla., it was as if the air sluiced out the door. There was a breathless, aching stillness.

Prosecutors displayed the dark gray sweatshirt that Martin wore on the last night of his life in an enormous, rectangular, thickly three-dimensional frame. The hoodie lay suspended between clear plastic sheets with its arms spread wide inside a cross-shaped cutout, set starkly apart from the brilliant white of the matting.