When you say
We all know how it works, there will be no justice here or anywhere Al or Jessie chose to spin the truth.
Who do you mean by “WE”? If you imply White America you may be correct. But that is yet another reason why this is a problem. The truth of this case has been discussed on blogs for MONTHS prior to the case ever being spoken by Jesse Jackson, Senator Clinton or the major news media. The Johnny-come-lately news media has yet to cover all the facts, from start to finish on this case because they don’t know. They are still trying to figure out what happened, while bloggers have long discussed it.
If you mean that Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton bringing this to national attention because major news media ignored it is spin, all the better. I am no fan of sensationalized events. I have commented on what I feel are the short-comings of both reverends. Yet there is no question that this is a newsworthy item that the media ignored, in my opinion, because of the racial component.
As for no justice, well I believe that happened when the Jena 6 were charged with attempted murder, that they were charged as adults, that no charges were brought against those that hung the nooses, and when the shotgun was brought to the school. Where was the justice in all those acts?
Were is the justice in the media ignoring Me. Megan Williams, or Jonathan Riches, or Sean Bell? Who does this blind-eye benefit? None of these cases are separate, and all indicate a pervasive problem in America.
You make an accusation against the reverends, claiming that
You can not seek equality and justice by perpetrating the exact opposite.
I ask, where have they committed crimes? What have they done that is vile or dangerous? How have they prevented justice from being done? As far as I am aware, while you might call some of their actions grandstanding, they have not violated any rights or broken laws (with exception of civil disobedience which is not violent – and they were charged and served their punishment for).
Lastly you come to Rodney King. Obviously you come to this with a certain frame of mind. Your focus is on the prior actions of Mr. King, which could not and were not known that night. There was no prior knowledge or justification for 6 or more POLICE officers to stun and beat a man repeatedly for a traffic violation. I ask you, if this were a White man with the same criminal record, or without one, being beaten in the same manner would you still think that the beating was justified as you imply?
To say that this was a critical point, that this changed things in the nation, I disagree. The difference was that there was a videotape of the event. There was no tape when I was driving with friends and the police decided to pull us over and draw guns on ME in the passenger seat, while asking the 2 White guys in the back seats if they were ok. No ticket, no problem with the car. Just that question while I held my hands to the top of the car with 2 guns on me. (The driver was Asian if that matters in your mind. Oh no one in the car took drugs or had been drinking, in case you wondered.)
There was no camera when I was in college and was walking home from buying cigarettes and had officers roll up and pull guns on me. While they were looking for someone, I could clearly hear that they were looking for a White male with blonde hair, it’s what the dispatcher was saying on their radio and I could hear it at a distance of roughly 20 feet. Yet with that fact, as I stood under a streetlamp, in 1987 New Brunswick NJ, I spent the next 20 minutes providing my identity and waiting for them to confirm that they were looking for a White, blonde haired male with a gun pointing at me and my hands in the air. Rodney King was not special, it was just video taped.
Concluded in part 4...
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