Zimmerman to sell Confederate Flag to support Muslim-free gunshop

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Zimmerman to sell Confederate flag painting to help ‘Muslim-free’ gunshop | Reuters

George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer acquitted in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager, is raffling off a painting he made of a Confederate flag to raise money for a Florida gunshop owner who declared his store a Muslim-free zone.

Zimmerman, who gained notoriety during his trial for killing Trayvon Martin in 2012, is selling the painting on a website for the Tampa-area store, Florida Gun Supply, owned by Andrew Hallinan.

Last year Zimmerman sold a painting depicting the American flag on eBay for more than $100,000. The store’s website suggests his latest painting could fetch as much.

The raffle brings together three controversies raging through America.

The Trayvon Martin case highlighted the issue of racial profiling of young black men and the dangers they face when viewed as potential criminals.

The Confederate battle flag, seen by many as a symbol of white supremacy, has emerged as a flashpoint in U.S. race relations since the June massacre at an African-American church in South Carolina by a white man who had posed with the banner.

The case also touches on the issue of discrimination against Muslim-Americans, which has intensified since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks by Islamist militants in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Zimmerman, 31, and Hallinan will split the proceeds from the raffle and use the money for living and legal expenses. The proceeds will help advance “their mission to change the country,” the website states.

Believe it or not, there is some good news in there. The racist, a-holes will be spending that money on their legal woes.