Salon.com > madea http://www.salon.com Tue, 02 Jul 2013 22:57:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Lolo Jones compares Trayvon Martin witness to Tyler Perry’s Madea http://www.salon.com/2013/06/28/lolo_jones_compares_trayvon_martin_witness_to_tyler_perrys_madea/ http://www.salon.com/2013/06/28/lolo_jones_compares_trayvon_martin_witness_to_tyler_perrys_madea/#comments Fri, 28 Jun 2013 17:58:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13340077 Olympic track athlete Lolo Jones has found herself at the center of controversy again, this time for comparing Rachel Jeantel, the 19-year old star witness in the Trayvon Martin case, to Tyler Perry's black matriarch character, "Madea."

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Many found the remark offensive. But Jones, who has apologized for her ill-conceived attempts at humor before, has not yet responded to her critics, at least on Twitter:

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Instead, she issued the following statement via Twitter:

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