Apparently,
rapper DMX is scheduled to fight the infamous George Zimmerman in a
celebrity-boxing match. Yes, I didn't believe it at first either. For those of
you who don't know who George Zimmerman is (which I hope is no one), he was on
trial for the murder of Trayvon Martin, only later to be found not
guilty.
First
off, this is wrong in every way possible. Why in the world are we giving this
guy more attention in the media? Zimmerman is just starving for more and more
attention as some infamous celebrity, and we’re allowing it to happen. Even if
DMX wins the fight there is no positive outcome. There will be no justice served for anything that has
happened in the past and god forbid if Zimmerman just so happens to win, he
will just be getting exactly what he wants. We are already letting him get what he
wants.
I
think one of the roots to this problem is Social Media. Without the exposure
and platform that social media is serving this story would not have nearly as much
coverage and may not have even been relevant. Boxing promoter, David Feldman,
started opening applications for celebrities to be paired with potential
opponents and he received over 15,000 applications, 8,000 of them asking to
fight Zimmerman. I feel that with the rise of social media, we as a society have
began to “defy deviancy down” and most things that used to seem immoral and
wrong are becoming more acceptable to us. Sure, I get that some people would
love to see Zimmerman get pummeled by DMX, but having the fight be nationally
aired and letting the fighters receive a financial gain from us as viewers just doesn't seem right. We have to stop amplifying these types of stories in the media because the more we do, the more we reinforce this as being normal and ok.
Here’s
a few links to articles over the story if anyone is interested.
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