I did not want to write any more
“topical” posts here, but today I had a disturbing experience that needed to
be exposed to the light of day. I had just completed my day of manual labor and
was walking to a bus stop when I observed a middle-aged black male riding a bicycle
on the sidewalk in the opposite direction, on his left side, forcing me to move
to my left. I could see from his expression that he was in a belligerent mood,
and had probably looking for a confrontation. I looked at him in a mildly
irritated way, but said nothing. He looked at me with evil, but we passed each
other with otherwise no expectation for further contact.
But I was wrong. Five minutes
later he rode up behind me, and menacingly threatened to cause me physical harm
if I “followed” him again. Being a logical person, I asked him what he was
talking about. I hadn’t seen him before, and I certainly hadn’t been “following”
him. But he persisted in his menacing threats, merely brushing aside my
protests with more promises of physical harm.
I tried to walk away, but he kept
following me and making the same threats. Several times he stopped his bike and
got off it and advanced toward me, apparently because my denials were
irritating him. I simply walked faster, and apparently he didn’t want to leave
his bike far behind, so after a few steps he walked back to it. Unfortunately
for me, there was very little traffic in the vicinity at the time, so there
were no witnesses present.
Finally, I could not contain my
outrage at this crazed behavior (maybe he was off his medication). I told him
at various times along the several blocks he followed me that I was going to
call the police, which didn’t appear to faze him—these thugs actually tell you
they don’t care if they go to prison—and it was only when I asked him what his
name was did he appear to be concerned about the course his behavior was taking.
Of course he refused to do so, which prompted me to call him a coward.
Naturally he didn’t take this
appellation with élan; rather it aroused further aggression. I pointed out to him
that bullies only threaten people (like me) who are smaller than they are, thus
making them cowards. After one more pass making threats on my person, he
finally backed off, riding away in the opposite direction. To be honest, he
really didn’t “scare” me, but then again, it is not always wise to “talk” to
bullies and thugs who just want to find an easy mark to take out their
frustrations on the world.
While I was waiting at the bus
stop, something suddenly occurred to me. Why had this person accuse me of doing
something I had clearly not done? Why was he so intent on instigating an
opportunity for him to strike me? It just didn’t make any sense. Or did it?
Consider: I obviously appeared to
be “Hispanic” to him. Starting to get the “picture” now? George Zimmerman was
Hispanic, and was vilified and dehumanized for an entire year by the media. His
“victim,” Trayvon Martin, was portrayed as an “innocent child” who had been “followed”
by Zimmerman. Of course, the nature of
the encounter was much more complicated than that, and I have gone into detail
on that subject before. The reality was
that Martin was a few months shy of being an 18-year-old adult. He was a thief,
a dope dealer and a “gangsta” wannabe. He was suspended from school three
times, and the third time his mother actually kicked him out of her house. He
was not charged with any crimes—despite the fact that the jewelry that was
found him that led to one of his suspensions had been reported stolen from a
residence in the neighborhood. But his divorced parents were “good” people, so
school officials gave this “child” every break—to the point where he thought he
could get away with anything. Martin clearly had no interest in education, and
his “extracurricular” activities clearly marked him as someone who likely would
find his “living” in the “informal” economy.
Perhaps we cannot know for
certain what all happened on that fateful evening. But was certain was that many
“transients” like Martin had showed up in the neighborhood, and some of them
were involved in home invasions and robberies. That is the simple fact.
Zimmerman was not the “self-appointed” sheriff in town, but had been asked to
be so by a neighborhood committee, per the advice of the town police chief to
tackle the rise in crime.
So what happened to me? Could it
be that this black man thought of himself as “representative” of Martin, and
myself a “stand-in” for Zimmerman? It’s the only “logical” explanation, and
believe me, I have had many “illogical” encounters with blacks whose
belligerence can only be explained by this search for scapegoats in the quest
for “victimhood” without consideration or recognition of responsibility. After
all, Michael Brown was nothing more than a physically intimidating thug, and
there is no doubt that he could and did put the fright in people with his
bullying nature when he wanted to.
And the irony of the situation
was that this man validated Zimmerman’s claim that he acted in self-defense,
which was the only “logical” evaluation of the evidence in his trial. In my
case, the only difference in this man’s warped quest for “vengeance” was that I
don’t own a gun.
And let’s not forget the evil on
the part of the media and politicians that established this atmosphere of hate
and irresponsibility. As I mentioned before, the gruesome 2006 murder of a
Hispanic family in Indianapolis by a couple of black “gangstas” occurred during
the height of the anti-immigrant hysteria, as did the murder of an immigrant in
Shenandoah, PA—Luis Ramirez—by a couple of white high school “jocks” that an
all-white jury acquitted, before Gov. Ed Rendell requested a federal civil
rights investigation that found that, among other things, that the town police
chief and two of his officers were guilty of conspiracy to abort justice.
In a town rent with anti-Hispanic
immigrant hate, just four years before, 18-year-old David Vega, arrested for a
fight after a football game, supposedly committed suicide by hanging in his
cell; however, an autopsy found head injuries, a gash on his forehead and a
dislocated shoulder. It was likely that he was “strung up” after he had been
beaten and killed at the hands of police.
The Southern Poverty Law Center
noted at the time that
“Ramirez's death after the July
12, 2008, beating drew attention to what FBI statistics suggest was a
nationwide surge of anti-Latino hate crime that began in the early 2000s. Five
months later and 170 miles away, another gang of teenagers in Patchogue, N.Y.,
killed Ecuadorian immigrant Marcelo Lucero as part of a ‘sport’ they called ‘beaner-hopping.’"
So blacks are hardly “alone” in
being the victims of hate crimes—in fact, Hispanics are probably more so in
this country, by both blacks and whites. To me, that black man was guilty of
hate, and if he had actually done something, it would have been a hate crime.
But naturally it wouldn’t be viewed as such by a hypocritical media that feeds
the hate. It—and black activists—prefer to use the term “ethnicity” if they
give credence to it all. More likely, they think that Hispanics have “what’s
coming to them” for “invading” the country.
Life is not easy living between the Nazis on one side, and the "gangstas" on the other side.
While the media continues to "scrupulously" avoid talking about the belligerent mentality and past criminal history of recent "victims" of police shootings so as not to be accused of racism, Zimmerman continues to be a moving target for self-righteous media and those seeking "retribution," hoping to "justify" their total lack of objectivity and credibility. Three years after the incident and two years after the trial, CNN continues to sink into the sewers, reporting that Zimmerman was recently detained for allegedly throwing a wine bottle at his girlfriend; no mention of what she threw at him. These charges were dropped for lack of evidence.
Life is not easy living between the Nazis on one side, and the "gangstas" on the other side.
While the media continues to "scrupulously" avoid talking about the belligerent mentality and past criminal history of recent "victims" of police shootings so as not to be accused of racism, Zimmerman continues to be a moving target for self-righteous media and those seeking "retribution," hoping to "justify" their total lack of objectivity and credibility. Three years after the incident and two years after the trial, CNN continues to sink into the sewers, reporting that Zimmerman was recently detained for allegedly throwing a wine bottle at his girlfriend; no mention of what she threw at him. These charges were dropped for lack of evidence.
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