"Stop the Violence"
I just saw a "report" by that alabaster-haired, effete snob Anderson Cooper, in which he interviewed a couple of people on strategies to "stop the violence" in cities (Chicago and LA were mentioned) in the wake of the beating death of an urban high school honors student.
The people Cooper interviewed (one of whom is the University of Southern California football coach) spoke in vague, dreamy terms about "broken families" and "no hope".
Horsecrap. Why don't you see toothless rednecks in Appalachia shooting and beating each other to death nightly up in every holler? Appalachia has it all: poverty, joblessness, drug abuse, broken families, rampant ignorance ... do the rednecks have to start killing each other in order for it to be dramatic enough for Anderson to make an appearance? Does CNN find the Appalachian accent to irritating or not attractive enough to make for a good interview? I wonder if Anderson would subtly suggest I'm asking these questions from an unconscious inner racism ...
These morons can yammer on until they're blue in the face about "empowerment" and "safe streets" and putting a stop to the "no snitches" rule of the street and they'll achieve the same result that kind of garbage has netted them thus far .... jack crap.
What we're going to see is more of the same ... they'll try to somehow make murder more illegal. Shooting somebody will be more illegal. Drugs will be more illegal.
Fools. Achieving substantive change in the inner cities will require a level of transformation that urban society repeatedly demonstrates it isn't motivated to attain. It means convincing people to take responsibility for their own actions in areas where people already refuse to do so on so many levels. Look at the LA riots. Look at the looting in the wake of hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. The beating death of the kid on which Cooper "reported" was filmed by someone who was one of many bystanders who did absolutely nothing to stop what was happening right in front of them. Cooper throws around suggestions that "the system" is failing the "kids" in these places. What he needs to see is that these people are failing themselves.
I'm sick of flushing dollars down the urban toilet. I'm sick of being saddled with taxes, regulations and laws touted to "keep people safe" in places where they seem hell-bent on destroying themselves. "The system" ... no system can help people who so steadfastly refuse to help themselves. Beyond that, though, I'm sick of disingenuous questions about how to "stop the violence" being posed by journalists who don't want to know the answer, and who profit obscenely from the violence they "report".
We cannot stop the violence in the inner cities, Anderson. Only they can do it, and they've got to do it for themselves. And if they want to burn it all down around themselves, I'm all for letting them have at it. I'm sick of my tax dollars being used to facilitate their self-destruction. I'm sick of you asking questions when you don't really want to hear the answer.
The people Cooper interviewed (one of whom is the University of Southern California football coach) spoke in vague, dreamy terms about "broken families" and "no hope".
Horsecrap. Why don't you see toothless rednecks in Appalachia shooting and beating each other to death nightly up in every holler? Appalachia has it all: poverty, joblessness, drug abuse, broken families, rampant ignorance ... do the rednecks have to start killing each other in order for it to be dramatic enough for Anderson to make an appearance? Does CNN find the Appalachian accent to irritating or not attractive enough to make for a good interview? I wonder if Anderson would subtly suggest I'm asking these questions from an unconscious inner racism ...
These morons can yammer on until they're blue in the face about "empowerment" and "safe streets" and putting a stop to the "no snitches" rule of the street and they'll achieve the same result that kind of garbage has netted them thus far .... jack crap.
What we're going to see is more of the same ... they'll try to somehow make murder more illegal. Shooting somebody will be more illegal. Drugs will be more illegal.
Fools. Achieving substantive change in the inner cities will require a level of transformation that urban society repeatedly demonstrates it isn't motivated to attain. It means convincing people to take responsibility for their own actions in areas where people already refuse to do so on so many levels. Look at the LA riots. Look at the looting in the wake of hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. The beating death of the kid on which Cooper "reported" was filmed by someone who was one of many bystanders who did absolutely nothing to stop what was happening right in front of them. Cooper throws around suggestions that "the system" is failing the "kids" in these places. What he needs to see is that these people are failing themselves.
I'm sick of flushing dollars down the urban toilet. I'm sick of being saddled with taxes, regulations and laws touted to "keep people safe" in places where they seem hell-bent on destroying themselves. "The system" ... no system can help people who so steadfastly refuse to help themselves. Beyond that, though, I'm sick of disingenuous questions about how to "stop the violence" being posed by journalists who don't want to know the answer, and who profit obscenely from the violence they "report".
We cannot stop the violence in the inner cities, Anderson. Only they can do it, and they've got to do it for themselves. And if they want to burn it all down around themselves, I'm all for letting them have at it. I'm sick of my tax dollars being used to facilitate their self-destruction. I'm sick of you asking questions when you don't really want to hear the answer.
posted by Alpineman, RN at 10:44 PM
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