The big news this week is the Australian baseball player
that was killed by three teenaged boys that were bored and decided that
throwing their lives away would be a good way to get the ole heart rate
up. I have some real problems with the
way this story is getting covered in the news.
But, before I get to that, I was pretty shocked that they actually succeeded. People that fucking dumb don’t usually
accomplish a goal, no matter how nefarious.
I mean, seriously, one of them posted online that it was time to take
some “life’s”. Not only does he not know
the plural of “life”, what the fuck was the apostrophe for?
Anyway, this isn’t a blog about dumb ass teenagers, this is
about the media. So, let’s dive in.
First off, since when is it okay to show the pictures and
names of minors on the internet and on TV?
I know the justice system likes to arbitrarily decide when they will or
will not charge someone as a minor but here in the real world, children are
children and we need to keep sight of that.
One of those guys in the mug shots is listed at 64 inches. He’s 5’ 4”.
You’re gonna tell me that’s an adult?!
Fucked up child? Yes. Someone that will never ever benefit society
and has no chance at rehabilitation? Not
so much, but he might be after doing 30 years in jail for not having the heart
to tell Doughboy to let him out the lowrider (see Boyz N the Hood).
In an effort to make these kids look menacing, they are all
dressed in their orange jumpsuits for their booking and while I’m sure
conservatives will use this as reasoning to believe that Black kids are
monsters, if you take a good look at them, they are clearly terrified, as well
they should be. They are about to be
cash cows for some prison owner in Oklahoma for the next 60 years.
side note: What
happened to the idea that it takes a village to raise a child? I wonder if anyone is going to take on the
idea that a fucked up child is not just a parental failure but a societal one
as well…
Anyhoo, secondly, the portrayal of the victim as the noble
white man is disgusting. In his pictures,
he is nobly gazing off into the distance with the morning sun glimmering in his
eyes. This dude looks more like the next
contestant on “The Bachelor” than Crocodile Dundee. Somehow, even though the only thing that we
know about him is that he is an Aussie, he has been deemed a saint in the
Church of American Media. When I think
about it, every random White dude is a saint in the Church of American
Media. I mean, George Zimmerman killed
an unarmed teenager and he got strangers to donate $300,000 to his legal
defense because of the way he was portrayed.
By no means am I trying to talk bad about Christopher
Lane. It is a tragedy that this young
man lost his life. My heart goes out to
his family but a senseless death is tragic every time. Just ask the city of Chicago. If you think I’m lying about how much they
have glorified this guy, there is a fund that is going to his family and how
much have they raised in less than a week?
$100,000. This is for a guy that
no one knows jack about.
Now, some Australian officials are calling for a boycott of
the United States due to our love of guns.
One went so far as to point out, per capita, you are 18 times more
likely to be shot and killed in the U.S.
I don’t doubt that but whoever this guy is, he is forgetting to connect
the dots, just like everyone in the ‘news’ today. The dot’s all point to one fact. There is but one overarching principle in
America: Get to the money.
We don’t take on guns because it makes a few people a ton of
money. We don’t take on immigration
because a few people don’t want to pay a living wage to the guys and gals
picking the grapes. We can’t legalize
weed because a few pharmaceutical (and liquor) companies would be out of
billions. We don’t improve education
because educated people realize the inherent unfairness in working for subsistence
while his/her boss makes millions, whilst sitting on a yacht. Educated people demand more and the true
owners of this country ain’t payin up.
Chris Lane came to this country and I assume
that it was because of the American Dream of getting to the money. I could be wrong, he just might have liked
backwoods Oklahoma. However, when he
came here should have been briefed on how we systematically make sure that
there are plenty of stupid people and plenty of guns being passed out and the
end result is that we are willing to sacrifice quite a few “life’s” to get to
the money. The media won’t tell you
that, they will just let the money keep flowing and have you listed in a long
line of people that should have ducked.
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