What’s to learn? Seriously.
What I think there is to learn is that a demagogic President can turn a local incident into a national catalyst for racial animosity, and how the old media will check its ability to get to the truth by the door in order to push the propagandistic line. Also, that when a case becomes a symbol, inconvenient truths like the Hispanic background of George Zimmerman go out the door. Finally, how the crowd that sees events as opportunitiest to catalyze mobs could care less about the people like George Zimmerman whose lives they destroy along the way.
Seems to me it’s self-destructive to raise people like Rodney King and Trayvon Martin as people who defended the cause, so to speak.
If these are the heros of the movement, then they are better than anyone else in the movement. Think about that.
We have a guy driving in excess of 80 MPH on the highway, gets pulled over, gives the cops crap, refuses to comply, and then refused arrest to the point where he has to be prevented from getting back on his feet for a considerable period of time.
Trayvon was essentially walking around close to homes at night, not on a path leading to his own place. If he had made a straight line back to his Dad’s, he wouldn’t have attracted attention. He wouldn’t have gotten mad and tried to beat up Zimmerman, and then been shot to death.
Okay, so those who look up to these two men must by definition fit somewhere in below them.
I for damn sure don’t want to be looking up to people like this in my own sociological economic group. These are not my leaders. These are not people I wish to emulate. They certainly wouldn’t have been elevating my rights if they participated in this kind of thuggery.
I wish today’s Black leaders could understand the dynamic I am addressing here. Sadly, they can’t.
We are witnessing devolution, not evolution...