So I’m skimming the timeline on the facebook, and I run across a story that reads,
Sharkeisha killed in a drive-by shooting
For those of you who are unfamiliar, Sharkeisha Tyesia Thompson, became an internet sensation months ago following the video of her beating a Sha’Michael Manuel over what seemed to be, a boy.
And while the video footage has been deleted from the Instagram, this surfaced on Tuesday:
The story, as told on Huzlers.com, states that Sharkeisha was killed in a drive-by shooting. Further research says that this story is a hoax.
And that’s all well and good. That’s the nature of the internets.
What’s troubling, were the comments that people left regarding this incident.
Jennell Profound Missunderstood A · Top Commenter · Ashford University
LIVE BY THE SWORD, YOU WILL DIE BY IT!! #SADTOSAY
Mike Bugatti Simpson · Follow · Sales at Macy’s
I bet the girl she hit in the face probably got her killed off the strength she dating Cheif Kief
Dann SoulJourney Slaughter Finklea · Follow · Top Commenter · Photographer at From a Walk to a Journey
You Weep what you Sow! God Knows!
My irritation grew into anger and disgust. First, at the absolute oblivion to the fact that Huzlers.com is a satirical site. For entertainment purposes. Then, I grew more angry at the fact that the death of a teen-aged girl, bully or not, is subject for entertainment. Furthermore, that there are people out here that actually feel like the “incident”, is JUSTIFIED. Dann SoulJourney even brought God into the argument.
These types of things lessen my faith in the goodness in people. It makes me think of similar reactions in nationwide cases like Trayvonn Martin, and Reneisha McBride. And while these teenagers weren’t killed in acts of “vengeance”, the same practice of trying the dead for their own murder, is here in this report.
We like to see the “bad guy” get theirs. Remember the Marcus Arceneaux case?? So then, do we look for the bad in a person that’s been harmed or killed, so that we feel justified in feeling justified about what happened to them??
Get it together, folks. Ask yourselves:
1. Why is the death of a teenage girl topic for jokes?
2. Why did some part of you felt like “that’s what she gets” after reading the headline?
3. What part of you makes it okay to encourage death, as means of punishment?
The Huzler’s article, if you hadn’t figured out by now, is a hoax.