Following the Trayvon Martin case, no one was surprised that Spike Lee had something to say. Whether it's a comment which inspires Reggie Miller to beat the Knicks or incessantly reminding us that racism is a thing (like we'd forget), Lee has a problem keeping his mouth shut pretty much all of the time...and he really dug himself a hole here.
Basically, he retweeted an address that was allegedly the house of George Zimmerman, the shooter. Unfortunately (or fortunately in Zimmerman's case) it wasn't his house and now a 70 year old couple has been forced to move into a hotel temporarily for fear of their safety..
First of all, tweeting anyone's address is totally inappropriate. I know that emotions are freaking crazy about this story and a lot of people have an opinion, but we have courts for a reason. Zimmerman hasn't been proven guilty, and I will always trust courts over public opinion. From what I've read, Zimmerman seems to have been extremely overzealous with his "watching" of the neighborhood and made a gigantic error in judgement. He killed someone, He needs to pay for it but not from a social-networking mob. A guilty verdict from the media does not make it OK to take revenge into our hands. Secondly, why would you EVER simply retweet an address without checking it out? Well the answer is that Spike Lee felt retribution was necessary in some form and felt that someone would take care of it if given the address. He wanted someone to do something and didn't stop to think about the possibility the address was wrong, or the irony in fighting a case where someone took the law into their own hands, by taking the law into his own hands...
A. It's wrong for him to assume guilt and take responsibility to let people know where they should go if they feel they need to exact revenge.
B. It's flat out moronic to send out an address of which you have no actual knowledge of who lives there.
He's finally apologized, but this is one of those things where a "i'm sorry" doesn't exactly measure up to the offense....
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