tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16645996.post571102080559635534..comments2023-07-04T21:12:47.972-05:00Comments on Why Am I Not Surprised?: Is Open Season Ever Going To Close?changeseekerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18350201531677548579noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16645996.post-35914158251940539872009-01-14T22:31:00.000-06:002009-01-14T22:31:00.000-06:00I know what you mean, Renee. When I read tonight ...I know what you mean, Renee. When I read tonight that the killer had been arrested and charged with murder, I thought, "Bet he doesn't get convicted..." I don't wish the man ill, but this is a sick, sick system.changeseekerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18350201531677548579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16645996.post-251429100175508062009-01-14T21:51:00.000-06:002009-01-14T21:51:00.000-06:00To add insult to injury I keep hearing the proposi...To add insult to injury I keep hearing the proposition that this might have been an accident. Every time I hear this suggestion I see red. They didn't accidentally shoot Madoff and he ripped off millions. These "accidents" always occur with POC. When will people realize that even if he was reaching for a stun gun (which I doubt) this was still abusive. He just saw black man and went into killer mode PERIOD.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16645996.post-69224902400765682142009-01-13T07:17:00.000-06:002009-01-13T07:17:00.000-06:00BBBTT: If you feel justified in villifying Oscar G...BBBTT: If you feel justified in villifying Oscar Grant, I most certainly do not. I don't see him as a martyr and did not present him here as a Malcolm X, so I don't really get your point. I do, however, see him as a young Black man in an institutionally oppressive country that socializes young Black men to become thugs in the first place and then convinces even other Black people that he is an inconsequential being whose death is meaningless. If only the purely good have a claim to human rights, many of us, nay, ALL of us are in trouble.<BR/><BR/>According to the records of White Supremacist authorities, many Black men have achieved "thug" status (whether based on facts or not), but even if it were true by some more "objective" criteria, a sociologist would ask, "WHY did Oscar Grant move in that direction instead of another?"<BR/><BR/>My post was not about Grant, in any case. It was about police who still have carte blanche to kill African-Americans in this country without penalty or even castigation while they are held to a different standard for everybody else. I have said for years, "If a government can take all the rights away from ANY group, it can take all the rights away from ANY group." As long as "officers of the law" can kill without being held responsible, we are NONE OF US safe. Unfortunately, it doesn't surprise me that so many in this country don't realize this yet. But they will eventually, I assure you, because history tells us that this kind of thing can only go one direction. A rogue government doesn't only vamp on "outsiders." It will run its course until we stop it. Which will not, I suspect, be easy to do.<BR/><BR/>PZ: Yes, you should have. Please find it, if possible. Thanks.changeseekerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18350201531677548579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16645996.post-19060198481400747282009-01-13T00:41:00.000-06:002009-01-13T00:41:00.000-06:00I should have bookmarked the video in which it was...I should have bookmarked the video in which it was explained why violence was sometimes the only possible reaction (this was in relation to Gaza, why Gaza residents were fighting back).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16645996.post-84589809500573948852009-01-12T17:11:00.000-06:002009-01-12T17:11:00.000-06:00Hi there!I think it is a shame that the BART offic...Hi there!<BR/><BR/>I think it is a shame that the BART officer resigned after committing murder captured on video and he has not been arrested by Oakland police.<BR/><BR/>It is also a shame that Oscar Grant is being mentioned along with Adolph Grimes III when these two men were leading VASTLY different lives.<BR/><BR/>Oscar Grant was a thug who had a criminal record and had been incarcerated numerous times.<BR/><BR/>His mother says he was trying to turn his life around. Well lady, your son was fighting on the darn train on New Year's Eve!!!<BR/><BR/>I am not saying that Oscar Grant should die for being in a fight on a train...that is NOT my point at all...<BR/><BR/>I am saying that Oscar Grant encountered police due to this OWN stupidity and what ensued was tragic and also criminal.<BR/><BR/>Adolph Grimes III should never have been approached by police at all!<BR/><BR/>I am sure some will say "well Lisa that is besides the point!" and maybe to them it is.<BR/><BR/>To me, it is a darn shame when a thug becomes a martyr in death.<BR/><BR/>Yes...he was someone's son and someone's father...and his life mattered.<BR/><BR/>Yes...the police were criminal...<BR/><BR/>Yes...it was cold blooded murder...<BR/><BR/>But...it is disturbing to me when I hear people turn a thug into a martyr as if he died like Malcolm X.LISA VAZQUEZhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13583559303233985031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16645996.post-35017137947917045002009-01-12T07:44:00.000-06:002009-01-12T07:44:00.000-06:00Beautifully said, LL. Thank you.Beautifully said, LL. Thank you.changeseekerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18350201531677548579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16645996.post-56350086318156215482009-01-11T19:06:00.000-06:002009-01-11T19:06:00.000-06:00You get to a pointwhere you sit in silencestaring ...You get to a point<BR/>where you sit <BR/>in silence<BR/>staring at nothing<BR/>while your mind spins<BR/>out of control<BR/>at the insanity<BR/>and the pervasiveness of it.<BR/>All the while hugging yourself close<BR/>and wondering<BR/>what in the world <BR/>you can do<BR/>anymore<BR/> to stop it<BR/>or even stem the tide.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com