I just read this moving post over at queer black feminist http://queerblackfeminist.blogspot.com/2012/04/trayvon-martin-was-good-boy.html and it got me thinking of this http://leftytgirl.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/transmisogynistic-media-report-on-murdered-trans-woman-from-detroit-local-fox-affiliate/
Both Coko and Trayvon are being painted as bad subjects by so many people, bad victims, as "criminals", as not worthy of respect even when they are murdered. Because they are marginalized people, they get presumed to be bad, to be unworthy. And it is just so very fucked up. They were murdered. And people are painting them as bad to try and suggest they are unworthy of life and unworthy of mourning in death. Marginalized people don't get to be human, don't get to make mistakes, don't get to be living and surviving in the rough situations they often are placed in by that very marginalization, don't get to be kids and friends and lovers, they just get to be "criminals" who we shouldn't be crying so much over.
A young autistic child is a threat in their eyes, not a person, not a beloved son or neighbor, and a butter knife becomes a steakknife to them. http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/calumet-city-police-stephon-steven-watts-139072509.html
Edit: Rekia Boyd was not a bad or unworthy human being either. http://www.blackyouthproject.com/2012/03/22-year-old-rekia-boyd-killed-by-off-duty-chicago-police-officer-cellphone-mistaken-for-handgun/
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