Spike Lee has apologized to David and Elaine McClain, the couple in their 70s whose address he tweeted to his 250,000 Twitter followers in the belief that he was outing the home address of George Zimmerman, the shooter of Tayvon Martin.
I doubt that the apology was sincere. Lee was probably trying to head off a serious lawsuit by Mr. and Mrs. McClain. I still hope they sue the supreme shit out of Spike Lee.
Whether the apology was sincere or not is beside the point. What is important here is Spike Lee’s evil intent in tweeting what he thought was Zimmerman’s home address. What possible reason could this asshole have had except to hope that someone would use that information to harm the vilified neighborhood watch volunteer.
The nationwide hysteria over the shooting of Martin and the failure to arrest Zimmerman has reignited the flames of racial passions and the protests have taken on the appearance of a lynch mob. There are enough crazies out there that George Zimmerman’s life is in real jeopardy and Spike Lee damn well knows it.
Spike Lee is no dummy. When he tweeted what he thought to be the home address of Trayvon’s shooter, Lee had to know that he was practically inviting some half-crazed hate-driven follower of Al Sharpton or some other rabble-rouser to murder Zimmerman, and no apology will ever change that.
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