Now we have aaaaaaacitivst demanding that Skittles donate profits to Treyvon Martin’s family?  Is this what is passing as rational thought among those who are using this tragic story to advance their own agendas?  Let’s see if I understand this:  Treyvon goes to the convenience store and buys, as I understand it, an Arizona Iced Tea for his brother and a bag of skittles for himself.  On the way back to his father’s house he encounters George Zimmerman … and we’re still trying to figure out what happens from there.  But now we have ignoranuses demanding that Skittles donate profits to ---- well, they’re not quite clear on that. 

Much of this idiocy is happening on Twitter.  Here are two of the Tweets making their way around the Internet: 

• "Hey @Skittles & @DrinkAriZona you might want to donate some of your HUGE profits from the tragic moment in US history? Or not? #whysoquiet"
  
  
• "I bet @Skittles profits are rising because of the tragedy of @JusticeForTray. I'm willing to bet they don't care either!"

Similar Tweets are being sent regarding Arizona Iced Tea. 

Part of this, of course, is the sense among the undedicated that profits are some how evil.  My mind is still recovering from the idiocy I saw on a pledge drive for SW Florida PBS station WGCU. The insipid host of this broadcast said that if you would just become a WGCU “member” you could be “proud of being a member of an organization that isn’t interested in making a profit.”  The converse here is that if you are part of an organization or company that IS interested in making a profit, you should be somehow embarrassed. 

I guess I should reprimand myself for being surprised at this nonsense.  After all, the ruler of this country has spoken out against the profit motive and has gone to great lengths to cast business profits as an evil plague on mankind.  That’s what Marxists do. 

Now I guess the procedure will be to find out what kind of clothes victims of crimes are wearing, and what commercial products they have on them when the crime occurred, and then demand that the makers of those products start forking over donations.  Or does that only count when the victim is black and the perp is white … or a “white Hispanic.”