Earlier this week MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry told a group of students at Cornell University’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture that she hoped Trayvon Martin had a chance to beat his killer George Zimmerman.
“I hope Trayvon Martin tried to stay alive. I hope he knew that he lived in a state with a ‘Stand Your Ground’ law,” Harris-Perry. “And I hope he whooped the shit out of George Zimmerman.”Trayvon Martin was killed by George Zimmerman three years ago today on Feb. 26, 2012.
“And it’s not disreputable because he encountered a stranger who was prepared to kill him, and you know how I know? Because he killed him,” Harris-Perry added.
Her speech was titled “We Can’t Breathe: The Continuing Consequences of Inequality.” The video above was posted by the Cornell Review, who called Harris-Perry’s speech “an embarrassment for Cornell.”
Embarrassing sums up just about everything affiliated with MSNBC.
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