Don’t Believe the Hype
If you get easily offended by talks of racism, or cannot deal with a perspective that isn’t yours on the talks of race, or creed, I strongly urge you to stop reading.
We have all seen it. Over and over and over. From the Rodney King incident, to Donald Brashear getting whacked with a hockey stick on the skull by Marty McSorley, in America if there is any altercation between races, it’s generally on Headline News.
Take the Rodney King incident for example. In Los Angeles, a city where whites are becoming the minority, the officers that were involved, all white, were all acquitted of beating Mr. King in a county court of law. Only after the federal government retried the case, were they found guilty. The tape of the brawl showed a gruesome beating, one that horrified America, and made everyone question how this could still be happening in our country.
But the evidence of the tape was only a tenth of the story. Why did it take months, even years, for the fact that Mr. King was absolutely wrecked on PCP? A drug that turns any person into Superman, bullet proof, and no one can change their mind. Or why was he going 130 mph on the freeway, which was the true reason he got pulled over in the first place? No, all we seen was nightsticks and whackings. They beat the shit out of him, over and over again, and he kept getting up. He ran for 8 MILES before he finally pulled over.
8 Miles.
When the videotape started, the first few seconds show King running after one of the officers. Before that, they shot him THREE TIMES with 50,000 volts of a taser gun, and he got up both times. You can kill a cow with those volts, but this guy kept getting up.
What do you do if you were one of the officers? All the training in the world would not do a thing to stop this guy. We have all seen the footage; one of those blows to the back would knock an average man out cold.
3 days later, the film is released to the public. What we weren’t told was the footage was heavily edited, making it look like they were doing it for kicks. Another racist altercation, the media said.
Hook, line, and sinker. The general public ate it all up, screaming outrage. It was all the white man’s fault, AGAIN. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson screamed outrage, but only on CNN. Jesse Jackson… I could write books on the corruption of this man, but I will stick to the story.
Cut to the verdict of the trial, less than an hour later the streets of LA were burning. Wait, the streets of Compton were burning. No one in Beverly Hills was in danger… no one in Brentwood was fleeing their homes. The African American communities were burning their own houses, and local stores. I don’t care how pissed you are, how much you think the system sucks, why would you burn your own streets down? It may have been the dumbest thing I have ever seen in my life. I for one have never seen that in any communities in America except African American ones. The Watts riots, the Detroit riots, just adding to the list of destruction that can once again be blamed on Anglos.
Now as history shows, Mr. King has been arrested 5 more times since that night in 1991. He won in civil court, collecting upwards of 4 million dollars of taxpayer’s dollars.
The one stipulation that the LA district attorney had with giving the money to Mr. King was this: You will not receive it in a lump sum, you will not get paid in full at once. Rodney King’s track record as a drug offender was so much that they pay him monthly, taking the chance that when or if he dies, they will never have to pay the rest. That’s how much of a loose cannon this guy is, but yet the media hyped this as the worst case of racial tension since the Civil rights movements in the 50’s.
It does seem like a lifetime since this happened, but the scars are never as deep as the media make them out to be. I could find you 10 more items on Rodney King, but why? Should he have taken that kind of beating? Yes, but only until they had him handcuffed, then the line was crossed. Up until then, he deserved every hit. The officers in question took their life on the line every day, and only after he was handcuffed did they cross that line.
All I ask of anyone that is reading this it to look at ALL the facts, not just the 30 second collage on the nightly news. Even this story, go check the facts. Don’t take my word for it; go look up the facts for yourself. Too many people in America will take the word of Brokaw, Rather, and Jennings over their own spouse. Of course racially motivated items happen, but of the hundreds of stories that are fed along the AP wire daily, the ones that get picked up are usually not the best ones, just the ones that will get the best and most scandalous ratings.
In closing… I don’t care if you’re blue, white, black, brown or whatever. It has never mattered to me, nor to most people. Your actions will always speak louder than your words. You should be proud of who you are, and where you came from. Seeing an “I’m black and I‘m Proud” t-shirt doesn’t bother me, but it also shouldn’t bother anyone to see an “I’m White and I’m Proud” t-shirt either. Get over it already.
Spreading Truth,
Manimal Lector
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