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‘Let’s Start a Riot’: First Rap Song Devoted to Trayvon Martin Calls for Violence

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The Trayvon Martin case has inflamed passions like perhaps no case in recent memory, and there is plenty of ugliness resulting from those passions. Now, the first rap song devoted to the Martin case has appeared on Youtube, titled “All Black in My Hoodie,” by the rapper Zoeja Jean.

It is not exactly a pleasant listening experience. The chorus goes as follows:

All black in my hoodie
All black in my hoodie
Strapped up with them AKs
F–k protesters

Let’s start a riot
Fight, let’s start a riot

The lyrics then proceed apace, with vulgarity continuing to escalate as it goes on:

Burn the house
And everybody in it
I don’t give a f–k about the racist ass children

F–k all that bullshit
Protest with justice
I feel like the Black Panthers
Let’s start a f–kin riot

Ain’t trying to talk like Dr. King
Like Malcom X I’m runnin ????
F–k them pussy ass KKK
We black and strapped with them A-K-K

They did us wrong in Haiti
They did us wrong in Africa
Black folks let’s keep it real
These pussy crackers don’t love us

If we don’t do s–t
And lynch that cracker
Six months later
They gonna kill another brother

Note the phrasing. “Lynch that cracker,” the “cracker” in question presumably being George Zimmerman. Apparently, either the reference to lynching has now been explicitly adopted by Martin’s more violent supporters, or Zoeja Jean has gone off the reservation with this wording. Either way, it doesn’t bode well for this already excessively violent case. Tempers are flaring, and the most irresponsible observers of this tragedy appear to be doing everything they can to encourage that.

Roseanne Barr Tweets — Then Deletes — Address for George Zimmerman’s Parents

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Actress and comedian Roseanne Barr on Thursday became the latest Hollywood celebrity to tweet an address for the man who shot Florida teenager Trayvon Martin after director Spike Lee drew outrage for doing the same.

According to the Smoking Gun, Barr tweeted the home address and phone number of George Zimmerman’s parents to her more than 110,000 followers, only to delete the post “[a]fter not fully understanding that it was private not public.”

The tweet prompted a wave of condemnation from Twitter users, including some who commented, “Really? A home address? One disgusting act of ignorance and violence deserves another?” and “Not cool. No matter how you feel about them, they don’t deserve that.”

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Barr — who is still running for president of the United States as a member of the Green Party — has been very vocal on Twitter about the Martin case.

“At first I thought it was good to let ppl know that no one can hide anymore,” Barr tweeted after the initial address post. In a separate message, she wrote: “But vigillante-ism is what killed trayvon. I don’t support that.”

Despite the sentiment, Barr appeared to have another change of heart shortly thereafter, when she threatened to retweet the address again if Zimmerman is not arrested.

As The Blaze previously reported, Lee retweeted a post last week claiming to be the Florida home address of the man who shot and killed unarmed Florida teenager Trayvon Martin. The address turned out to that of an elderly couple forced to leave their home to escape a storm of hate mail and death threats. After five days, Lee apologized on Twitter for tweeting the couple’s address.

The couple, Elaine and David McClain, told CNN on Thursday they have accepted Lee’s Twitter apology but would like a formal retraction before they can feel safe to return to their home.

George Zimmerman’s Father Details Defense in First TV Interview Since Trayvon Martin Shooting

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Robert Zimmerman, the father of George Zimmerman, said in an interview Wednesday that Trayvon Martin beat his son and threatened his life on the night Martin was shot.

In his first television interview since his son shot and killed the unarmed Florida teenager, 64-year-old Robert Zimmerman told Orlando Fox affiliate WOFL-TV, “It’s my understanding that Trayvon Martin got on top of him and just started beating him.”

Robert Zimmerman spoke to WOFL on the condition that his face not be shown because he said his family has received thousands of death threats.

He said his son was not following Martin, as has been widely claimed, but that he kept walking in order to find the address of his location for police.

“[George] called the non-emergency number first, and they asked him where he was, because he was at the rear of the town houses and there was no street sign,” Robert Zimmerman said.

During that time, he said, George Zimmerman lost sight of Martin.

“He went to the next street, realized where he was and was walking to his vehicle. It’s my understanding, at that point, Trayvon Martin walked up to him and asked him, ‘Do you have a f–king problem?’ George said, ‘No, I don’t have a problem,’ and started to reach for his cell phone. At that point, he [Martin] was punching him in the nose, his nose was broken and he was knocked to the concrete.”

Robert Zimmerman said his son was beaten for nearly a minute, after which he tried to get his head off the concrete and move with Martin on him onto the grass.

“In doing so his firearm was shown, Trayvon Martin said something to the effect of, ‘You’re going to die now,’ or ‘You’re going to die tonight,’” Robert Zimmerman said.

Martin “continued to beat George, and at some point, George pulled his pistol and did what he did,” he said.

As for the two gunshot-like noises and screaming that can be heard on the 911 recordings, Robert Zimmerman said one of the sounds is a door closing, supported by the fact there there was only one bullet missing from his son’s gun.

He said the screaming is his son, not Martin.

“All of our family, everyone that knows George, knows absolutely that that is George screaming,” he said. “There’s no doubt in anyone’s mind.”

Of the account that Martin was on the phone with his girlfriend at the time of the incident and said he was concerned he was being followed, Robert Zimmerman said he doesn’t believe it.

“I don’t believe that happened. I don’t believe she was on the phone with him, and I find it very strange with the publicity involved — that all of a sudden, after three weeks, someone would remember that they were on the phone,” Robert Zimmerman said.

“I’m sorry for all the hate that’s going around from their attorneys from everyone involved. They’re just making up things that are not try about George. How he’s being portrayed is an absolute lie,” Robert Zimmerman said.

Asked how his son has been handling the past several weeks, Robert Zimmerman said he’s “not dealing with it well.”

“I don’t know if his injuries are physical or mental or — he’s not in good shape,” he said.

Robert Zimmerman, a former magistrate judge and a Vietnam War veteran, described his family’s situation as “unimaginable.”

“Tough was being in Vietnam and other things. This is way beyond anything I can imagine,” he said.

Watch the full 19-min. interview below: