Perhaps Mike Brown’s mom, Lesley McSpadden, is too busy coordinating the next T-Shirt promotion.  Or perhaps Mike Brown Senior is too busy scheduling the next private jet trip to Europe while meeting with celebrities to grift more money from his death.  Regardless of reasoning, Mike Brown’s body remains in unmarked grave three months after his death.

A CNN writer visited the cemetery and takes note:

[…] I follow the footprints to a small bouquet of plastic flowers, red and purple, planted in the ground.

There is not yet a headstone at Brown’s grave. I stand where Brown’s parents wailed as their son’s casket was lowered on August 25 into a copper vault. Sixteen days before, he had been shot dead by Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson.

One minute, the 18-year-old stood 6 feet 4. The next, he fell to the ground on Canfield Drive. His blood colored the dull asphalt.

This is an all too familiar pattern in the nationally publicized deaths of both Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown.  Both sets of parents too caught up in the merchandising and financial exploitation of the death to actually pay respects to the short-lived life.

Grief takes as back seat when there’s the potential for celebrity and financial gain….

Sound familiar?


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