Monday, June 13, 2011

Oscar Winners

I watched several videos of the Oscar Grant shooting and read the stories a couple of years ago when the incident took place. Grant was involved in a fight on a transit train.

I do believe the BART cop, Johannes Mehserle, intended to use his taser, not a pistol. The look on Mehserle's face at the sound of the gunshot shows his shock at what he had done. Most videos uploaded online or played on the evening news did not show Mehserle's shock, simply because it did not fit the agenda of those making a case for racism and police brutality, or making political brownie points.

What irritates me is that Oscar Grant was an Oakland gangbanger with a thug sheet for drugs and violence, some baby's daddy, the stereotypical dependent on the same "system" that activists have convinced so many to disrespect - as a dead "victim" he is worth millions to his family and their attorneys, a martyr for the cause, support for a politician pimping votes.

Of course Grant's young daughter and her momma will need some support, not that he was contributing much support anyway. Of course BART should be held responsible for not training their rent-a-cops better - but who is responsible for not training Oscar Grant better?

While the Grant and Mehserle families grieve over the tragedy, the lawyers line up for lawsuits, the Grants go shopping, "justice seeking" pols pander the black vote, and the taxpayers bend over. Squawking about the "system" calms down, all the way to the bank.

It's a sad, sad day when you're more valuable dead than you are alive.

10 comments:

kf said...

Posted this over at the WRH yahoo group. Haven't attempted the track back thing.

Your question about who is responsible for training Oscar is the key (or core as they say nowadays). As I try to balance my advice to the now grown kids, this is something I ask myself almost daily.

Kate-A said...

Acorn/tree kf, acorn/tree.

There's a Biblical phrase I remember from my parents, paraphrasing it's something like "train up a child in the way he should go and when he is grown he will not stray far from it" ... I think that rings true.

kf said...

I had to chew on your words 'till all the flavor was gone, then I stuck 'em in my hair.

Trust.

A valuable reminder :)

Kate-A said...

Your words reminded me of the old song

"does your chewing gum lose it flavor on the bedpost overnight, if your mother says don't chew it do you swallow it in spite"

which reminded me of a time or two when my kids woke with gum stuck in their hair.

:)

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