{"id":19791,"date":"2013-07-20T19:35:38","date_gmt":"2013-07-20T23:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=19791"},"modified":"2013-08-23T10:01:02","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T14:01:02","slug":"things-i-never-knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=19791","title":{"rendered":"Things I Never Knew"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hopefully this will be the last thing I ever post about Trayvon Martin<\/a>. In surfing the internet today, I found that part of my education was severely lacking in terms of understanding this case.<\/p>\n

In June 2012, the American Thinker<\/a> posted a timeline of the events the night Trayvon Martin was killed. In listening to the news, we all heard that Trayvon was an innocent young man going to the store for iced tea and skittles. Nothing to see here, move along, folks. Well, my ignorance is showing.<\/p>\n

The article at the American Thinker explains the significance of tea and skittles:<\/p>\n

Trayvon, with his hoodie up, grabs two items from the shelves of 7-11.\u00a0 One is the Skittles<\/a>.\u00a0 The other is Arizona<\/a> Watermelon Fruit Juice Cocktail. \u00a0The media avoid the name of the real drink — possibly because of the racial implications of the word “watermelon,” but possibly to avoid probing the real reason for Trayon’s trip.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trayvon, in fact, had become a devotee of the druggy concoction known as “Lean,” also known in southern hip-hop culture<\/a> as “Sizzurp<\/a>” and “Purple Drank.”\u00a0 Lean consists of three basic ingredients — codeine, a soft drink<\/a>, and candy.\u00a0 If his Facebook<\/a> postings are to be believed, Trayvon had been using Lean since at least June 2011.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

On June 27, 2011, Trayvon asks a friend online, “unow a connect for codien?”\u00a0 He tells the friend that “robitussin and soda” could make “some fire ass lean.”\u00a0 He says, “I had it before” and that he wants “to make some more.” \u00a0On the night of February 26, if Brandy<\/a> had some Robitussin<\/a> at home, Trayvon had just bought the mixings for one “fire ass lean” cocktail.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I stumbled on this information accidentally through a friend on Facebook. Where was the media on this? We have been sold a bill of goods on this trial and everything connected with it. The media has again destroyed its own credibility.<\/p>\n

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