Mashup Photo of Martin Luther King, Jr. Wearing Trayvon Martin’s Hoodie Goes Viral

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9:57 am July 15, 2013
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How would Martin Luther King, Jr. react if he were alive to hear about the Trayvon Martin verdict? We may never know, but a former adviser to President Barack Obama tweeted a mashup image of the iconic civil rights leader in a hoodie that has since gone viral.

Van Jones went on Twitter hours after a Florida jury found neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman not guilty of Trayvon’s murder to post the image, which mashed up the photo of Trayvon in a hoodie that was circulated in the days after his death with King’s face.

 

 

He tweeted: “April 4th, 1968 … #RipTrayvonMartin … Please RT to share this image. #MLK.” The date is a reference to the day King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, by James Earl Ray.

Supporters of Trayvon have used the hoodie as a sign of support for the 17-year-old killed by Zimmerman during the trial and after the verdict was reached.

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By Ed Carrasco

Ed Carrasco has been in the journalism field for nearly a decade. Some of his photographs/articles have been featured in publications such as the Guardian, LA Weekly, OC Weekly, the Fullertonian, Cerritos-Artesia Patch and Orange Coast Magazine. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English from UCLA and a master’s degree in Journalism from Kingston University in the United Kingdom.

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