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

https://twitter.com/TomOrr777/status/380022725382643712

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

https://twitter.com/mikehollihan/status/380017275769585664

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

https://twitter.com/Victoriaokane/status/379613469307187200

https://twitter.com/asktheking/status/379953450882445313

https://twitter.com/StCloudVikings/status/379929607702458368

https://twitter.com/SheLuvMySteez/status/379946814973427712

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