10 Dumb Tweets About the Navy Yard Shooting

(The Root) — Twitter has been on fire with discussions about the shooting at the Washington, D.C., Navy yard since news of the incident broke yesterday.

Conversations about tragic incidents are never easy. Many of the discussions center on the feelings of grief, hopelessness and concern that spring up with any random act of violence, and yesterday’s conversations followed suit. But upon hearing that the shooter, Aaron Alexis, is black, some took the opportunity to tweet really, really crazy things about race and how it plays into this tragedy.

Check out 10 of the most ridiculous tweets below.

If the Navy Yard shooter was White the media wld be speculating abt links to White power groups ect.. so is this gunman a Black supremacist?

— Sean Allan (@RevolutionUK_) September 17, 2013

https://twitter.com/PatDollard/status/379929289577082881

I am surprised that the Democrat mayor of Washington D C did not blame tea party. Well he couldnt cause the shooter was black.

— Tom Orr (@TomOrr777) September 17, 2013

Kenyan’s off playing golf today. Too bad for yesterday’s victim’s that the shooter was black. #ImpeachObama pic.twitter.com/bPP1ThCQIa

— Ghost of Benghazi BU (@RedliningVETBU) September 17, 2013

Navy Yard shooter was black. And Buddhist. And fluent in Thai. That sound you hear? Gears grinding as heads try to fit that into narratives.

— Michael Roy Hollihan (@mikehollihan) September 17, 2013

https://twitter.com/steverwashburn1/status/379991187693658114

want 2bet criminally corrupt lib cesspool MSM won't report naval yard shooter is black? They'll report gun as AR15 but hv no desc of shooter

— Victoria O'Kane (@Victoriaokane) September 16, 2013

In negro news: the shooter in washington proves that Black people try to copy something's white people do!!

— King Of All Blacks (@asktheking) September 17, 2013

DC shooter was black, so Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are very quiet. #morningjoe

— #NeverTrump – LAKC (@StCloudVikings) September 17, 2013

So it turns out the navy yard shooter was black. Way to make us look bad you porch monkey

— Lord Finesse (@SheLuvMySteez) September 17, 2013

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