@Ponderer983 Admittedly, I only have the details given in the OP to go on. From what you’ve said so far, however, you are the one interpreting the image as having something to do with race. The text does not mention the race of either Martin or Holmes. Indeed, my interpretation of the image is that it is a rather garbled and confused critique of law enforcement priorities and/or American gun politics. So when you say that your’re appalled “black people will still look for a way to spin things towards racism,” at least two things come to my mind.
First, it seems quite the sweeping generalization to say that “black people” are the ones who “spin things towards racism.” The people who play race politics are an incredibly diverse lot, and I would not take any of them as representative of their race. Just as we cannot generalize to all (or most) white people on the grounds of a single Klansman making disparaging comments about Martin Luther King, Jr. or to all (or most) Asians on the grounds of a single Chinese person saying something hateful about the Japanese, we cannot generalize to all (or most) black people on the grounds of a single black person posting an image on Facebook (and that’s if there was any racial motivation to do so in the first place).
Second, it seems to me that you are the one imposing a racial reading onto the image. You are assuming that one of the people in the image being black and the person who you saw post the image onto Facebook being black are sufficient evidence that this is about race. In other words, you are the one who has based your interpretation on race. It is unlikely that your friend is the one who created the image, however, so reading his race into the image’s intent is premature. Nor do we know that your friend is thinking about the image in terms of race. As far as we know, then, you are the one reacting on racial preconceptions here.
Unless your friend makes a comment saying that race is a key difference in the two cases without being prompted by someone else starting a conversation about race, I don’t think we can say with any confidence that this is a case of your friend “spinning things towards racism.” Everyone’s skin has some color or another. It was inevitable, then, that everyone in the image would have a skin color and that your friend would as well. Whether or not it is a coincidence that your friend’s skin color happens to match the skin color of one of the people in the image is yet to be seen. I imagine plenty of white people have posted this image, however, and we’re not accusing them of race politics nor are we making statements that “white people will still look for a way to spin things towards racism.”