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my dad's cousin (idk if that makes him a distant uncle or what) became a cop circa 90-91.... and he was stationed in the west side where some of his early patrols had him working bulls celebrations. he had a cherry bomb blow up his shin early on in the career. he would go on to work vice into more organized crime stuff (mob crap) and eventually nowadays he got off the streets into some sort of forensics or something, as in now he only shows up after the crime has went down. glad he survived.
but i can tell you that by the ~mid-90s, when you were out in the backyard of family gatherings later at night when dad was having shots with them and then they started telling their "real" stories, it was n-word this n-word that and blah blah blah blah blah. working in the westside changed uncle brian, as he literally wasn't afraid to "call a spade a spade" or whatever euphemistic phrase you wanna come up with.
so i can't help but think that having been a cop, steve's along the same lines. since socioeconomic factors are what they are and thus the underclass, with its minority-laden makeup, tends to commit a lot of crimes out of relative/necessity, well, you're prone to have some unflattering throughts when people "stop being formal and start being real" (or whatever that tagline for the real world was)
obviously i'm not excusing steve for his views, but i am perhaps offering an explanation. i mean, when there's a disproportionate # of african americans arrested/jailed/etc, you're dealing with a certain segment of the demographic that isn't all that appealing, and well, no doubt dealing with the lowest of the low over time tainted steve in ways that he'll never completely get over.... and as such, let's be realistic, part of the camaraderie of a bunch of white cops with power dealing with a disproportionate # of minorities = str8up southern-style good ol boy racism. it's pretty much inevitable.
and like, while the whole slavery thing in that post was indeed in poor taste, still, the point he was trying to make about the whole situation, given that he's on record with thinking that trayvon was in the neighborhood "casing" the place looking for spots to rob..... welp man, much like OKC gave me props for when i was in a murder rate thread talking about how there's really a crisis of increasing #s of dumbass people doing dumbass shit going out and compelling people to shoot them over stupid street shit, well, i'm gonna say that in this day and age with the economy slipping and racial tensions artifically ramped up by the media, who is in lockstep with this administration looking for the big picture of disarming americans en masse (hence the constant reporting of gun violence and etc) yeah.... in this day and age you gotta be mindful of stupid consumer programs buying into the artifical dreamworld the television/internet/smartphones/media cooks up convincing everyone that we live in a pressure cooker and shit's sooo dangerous and whatnot, that like, in this day and age with people convinced the world is falling apart and it's utter shit and it's out of control....you see some stereotypical black kid walking around a "well to do" gated community or whatever, and you're gonna have nutjobs like zimmerman running around with hero fantasies wanting to save the neighborhood from that thug.... and yeah it's racism, it's racial profiling.... but it's also happening en masse and while it's not something we should be proud of and it's something to work on over time, still, it's incumbent on trayvon to know that being perceived to look like a stereotypical innercity kid in a ritzy white neighborhood that's GATED (your first clue that the neighborhood thinks it's holier than thou and needs to keep the rest of the world riff raff out) --- i mean, yeah, just like if i looked like a 6-7 figure white guy walking through the rough open-air market innercity areas i might be stereotyped to have $$$ an expensive cellphone, credit cards, a nice car.... and therefore i'm worth jumping/robbing..... at the same time, it aint like these "upper middle class white people's" shit dont stank so they're gonna have the same proclivities.... and it's between god and potential CCTV security camera footage what went down..... but like, beneath all of the racism/racebaiting/trolling/inciendary-stuff-said-EXPLICITLY-TO-PISS-OFF-NAS-AND-OTHERS, i mean, steve did kind of sort of have a point.... and in a sense he hearkened it back to antebellum times and while it's an ugly history we have... still man, he's speaking of a principle that's exaggerated for incendiary effect.... i mena, shit, he aint 100% wrong.
obviously i'm not advocating segregation or the good ol boys / klan "handling business" --- but steve does reference a historical fact, and he did it in a blunt and ugly way....and it's sad to say that like, with ppl convinced everything is shit the economy is going down and so many people think society is on the verge of collapse.... welp, with that kind of mindset, you almost have to take it back to the antebellum and remember just because they're in big houses in gated communities and with money doesn't mean they're any better than the antebellum people in terms of their prejudice and their insecurities leading to potentially fatal shit..... i mean, yeah.... you know, it sucks to say cuz the african american male is perhaps the most imitated and stylish man amongst the world archetypes.... but quoteth paul mooney on chappelle's show.... "everyone wanna be a nigga but ain't nobody wanna be a nigga" --- and in this case, this falls into the latter... but like, it's sad to say, but with the world the way it is and the media machine making money off of fear and prejudice and outrage.... racism is being put out there so much that when people intrinsically fear for their well being to the point where they have to live in a gated community.... yeah, see one of "them" and have your mind flash through 500 random images of rap videos, hedonism, and every negative stereotype of american americans purveyed by mass media for whatever means.... and yeah, i mean, trayvon's gotta know what he's getting himself into. and i ain't saying that he should take heed of the ominous warning elmhurst $teve put out there cuz that's a bit intimidating..... but at the same time, you gotta take responsibility for your actions.... and no matter what he was doing, trayvon put himself in a situation where this happened. you gotta be better than that.
so yeah, nas, i mean..... this is the dirty side of free speech. i know that steve's trying to piss you off and fan the flames here and he's almost got a personal race-baiting vendetta against black people like he came home early one day to catch his now-ex-wife in bed with a black guy. it wouldn't surprise me..... but i mena, at the same time, if you start saying that steve can't crack these nasty bad taste jokes, then you're gonna start a censorship thing that's a slippery slope.... and its like others have said with the ignore thing..... you gotta use it. obviously you got #s on your side.... but like, the way steve is saying that black people should "know their place" and effectively "be banned" from ritzy white communities..... well if you ban steve here for spouting off his technically wrong-divisive-incindiery views, its like others said, you're playing into his hands and proving his point.... that there's a doublestandard, and like it or not he'll be a martyr for his cause..... so like, there comes a point where i knwo you got that rage boiling inside of you and you wanna lash back at him.... but this is where you gotta stand tall and be the better man and say "steve, i feel sorry for you being like htat.... i forgive you" cuz if you start saying IT'S EITHER HIM OR ME SOMEONE HAS TO GO BF BAN THE MOTHERFUCKER, well i mean, isn't that exactly what steve is calling for IRL with black people in the ritzy white communities? he's doing his damndest to piss you off and make you act exactly like the white people who gated their community.... and yeah it's hard, yeah it's gonna piss you off and spawn some righteous indignation..... but this is the time where you stand tall and proud and simply say "i feel sorry for you steve" cuz like, shit man, if you're gonna go around espousing that hate, well then, you must be a truly miserable person on some level.
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