Twitter Tears Into Don Lemon

(The Root) β€” If misery loves company, it's having one heck of a tea party with Don Lemon this week. His victim blaming and respectability policing on the heels of the devastating George Zimmerman ruling have made headlines and rubbed many the wrong way. Twitter has been karate-chopping his argument for the last couple of…

(The Root) β€” If misery loves company, it's having one heck of a tea party with Don Lemon this week. His victim blaming and respectability policing on the heels of the devastating George Zimmerman ruling have made headlines and rubbed many the wrong way. Twitter has been karate-chopping his argument for the last couple of days with a clever hashtag (#DonLemonLogic) and biting commentary.

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It's safe to say that the dog piling will continue as long as Lemon insists on pretending that once black people pick up their pants and have some pride, everything will change for them.

https://twitter.com/elonjames/status/361299552243945474
https://twitter.com/JamilahLemieux/status/361573287073026048
https://twitter.com/slb79/status/361594786618155009
https://twitter.com/metroadlib/status/361527955727458304
https://twitter.com/youngsinick/status/361523719094546432
https://twitter.com/thembithembi/status/361292825356288001
https://twitter.com/MarvinRashad/status/361527978846461952
https://twitter.com/ToneTigre10/status/361965210094936064
https://twitter.com/Royce_the_52/status/361942436513185792

Tracy Clayton is a writer, humorist and blogger from Louisville, Ky.

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