She's really jumped the shark on this case.
She's really jumped the shark on this case.
Briefly caught her on last night’s show...the woman is not well. Her one guest was saying how the case should never have come to trial in the first place...smoke and mirrors were used to create a sense that there even was a case. Poor ol’ Nancy reamed him for using cliches rather than addressing her question (her guest was smiling as she went on her little hissy fit.)
Truth be told EVERYONE in America is avoiding the real issue here (except maybe at FR). Trayvon was behaving himself in typical thug-culture fashion, a Black response to perceived (and, at times, real) oppression that IS MEANT to instill a certain fear in those of the privileged (white) class. The “gangsta” mentality is not some innocent, healthy play-acting performed by children (akin, say, to playing “army” - something we did when we were young). It is a perception that many youth (and, especially, many black youth) manifest on a daily basis 24/7. It involves fostering a menacing visual appearance which brings with it the potential for either confrontation (”what you lookin’ at!”) or the perception of being rejected (ask yourself if you’ve ever found yourself averting your eyes while a group of “saggin’, droopy-clothed, baseball cap-wearing, “tatted-up”, mother-f4%*&er-swearing black youth amble your way. If you are smart, you don’t expect a “What’s up?” from such a group.)
This scene plays itself out all across America each and every day. The result is racial mistrust on the part of whites and a sense of racial hostility and rage on the part of blacks (Didn’t recent polls indicate that blacks were more racist than whites—poll findings that held even when measuring only black respondents?). And, since this scene is being played out each and every day across America (and you add the various body counts in the predominantly black inner city neighborhoods where it’s open season on young black males, and you add the creeping in of an overt current of racial hostility toward all things white/christian/male(and traditional American culture) emanating from Hollywood, from schools, from the White House, and you add the media’s willingness to downplay any of these variables as even remotely likely in adequately explaining racial tensions in America—all of which serves to create a sort of rubber stamp of approval of the thug life, you have a fairly dangerous mixture. And whenever this is brought up (and it rarely is), the various race hustlers, race apologists, black “legal experts”, reverends will not spend so much as a sentence on this part of the equation without some reference to, “Well, what we’ve got to understand is that this “gangsta” mind-set was created as a way of coping with any impossibly oppressive regime that will not allow a young, black male to experience the kind of freedom and opportunity that young white males have by virtue of their white births.” And, quickly, the conversation reverts back to the “crazy-a*& cracka’s” that are keeping strong black men down. We’ve all seen it.
The key point is this: One side and one side only is being asked to examine themselves, while the other side is found to be acting/reacting in expected/understandable ways. Whites must ever answer for the injustice of slavery in America. Blacks, understandably, will always behave “as freedom-fighters” until such time as true equality is achieved. And whites will continue to feel threatened in those mall-encounters. And blacks will continue to feel slighted when either met or ignored. And we will continue to avoid each other.
Thus, we (America, at large) ever perpetuate division between the races.