{"id":371854,"date":"2018-08-02T18:16:12","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T17:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/paramount-owes-america-an-apology\/"},"modified":"2018-08-02T18:16:12","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T17:16:12","slug":"paramount-owes-america-an-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/paramount-owes-america-an-apology\/","title":{"rendered":"Paramount Owes America an Apology"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Monday evening, the Paramount Networks aired the first part of a six-part documentary series on the death of Trayvon Martin called\u00a0Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story<\/em>.<\/p>\n

If multimedia impresario Shawn \u201cJay-Z\u201d Carter had chosen to tell it, there was a story to be told here: a story about a boy bounced around among his biological parents and other relatives after his parents\u2019 divorce; a story of a boy whose descent into drugs, guns, fighting, and burglary accelerated after his father left his stepmother, Alicia, his \u201crock,\u201d when Trayvon was 15.<\/p>\n

There was a story to be told of how Trayvon\u2019s school shielded him from the criminal justice system \u2013 much as the schools in neighboring Broward County shielded Parkland\u2019s Nikolas Cruz \u2013 even after Trayvon was apprehended at school with a weapon, a burglary tool, and stolen jewelry.<\/p>\n


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\n<\/span>This cautionary tale of abandonment and betrayal was not the one Jay-Z chose to tell.\u00a0\u00a0Instead, he submitted his audience to a TV hour of racially incendiary hokum shamelessly untethered from the inarguable facts of the case.\u00a0\u00a0The next five hours will not be any better.<\/p>\n

The testimony of Trayvon\u2019s parents, Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton, dominated the opening hour.\u00a0\u00a0Their grief seemed real enough, but instead of accepting responsibility for their son\u2019s chaotic life, they projected their guilt onto the marginalized, dehumanized \u201cother\u201d of this story, George Zimmerman, the man who was forced to shoot Trayvon in February 2012 to save his own life.<\/p>\n

The Martin family knew better.\u00a0\u00a0By the time a deposition was taken with Tracy Martin a year after the shooting, Tracy, Sybrina, and the…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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On Monday evening, the Paramount Networks aired the first part of a six-part documentary series on the death of Trayvon Martin called\u00a0Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story. If multimedia impresario Shawn \u201cJay-Z\u201d Carter had chosen to tell it, there was a story to be told here: a story about a boy bounced around among […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-371854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}