I'm sure y'all heard of this by now. What some of y'all might have heard of is all the ignorance being spewed by the average reader. It's not just on CNN, it's on LA Times and MSN (from what I've read). Basically, it's people talking about "well, if this was me and the cops came by my house, I'd thank them" and "he's pulling this stunt to further his agenda" and a myriad of bullshit like that.
Yeah right.
I cannot fathom to think that those mother fucks that claim Mr. Gates is bullshitting this for publicity would do the shit they claim they would. First, he just came home from a long trip and finds his door a bit fucked. He has to jar it open to get in and then his fucking neighbour calls the fucking cops to get his ass arrested in his own fucking home! I swear, Dave Chappelle talked about this as a joke.
Here's an account of the encounter with the pi... er, po-leece:
All of a sudden, there was a policeman on my porch. And I thought, ‘This is strange.’ So I went over to the front porch still holding the phone, and I said ‘Officer, can I help you?’ And he said, ‘Would you step outside onto the porch.’ And the way he said it, I knew he wasn’t canvassing for the police benevolent association. All the hairs stood up on the back of my neck, and I realized that I was in danger. And I said to him no, out of instinct. I said, ‘No, I will not.’
My lawyers later told me that that was a good move and had I walked out onto the porch he could have arrested me for breaking and entering. He said ‘I’m here to investigate a 911 call for breaking and entering into this house.’ And I said ‘That’s ridiculous because this happens to be my house. And I’m a Harvard professor.’ He says ‘Can you prove that you’re a Harvard professor?’ I said yes, I turned and closed the front door to the kitchen where I’d left my wallet, and I got out my Harvard ID and my Massachusetts driver’s license which includes my address and I handed them to him. And he’s sitting there looking at them.
Now it’s clear that he had a narrative in his head: A black man was inside someone’s house, probably a white person’s house, and this black man had broken and entered, and this black man was me.
So he’s looking at my ID, he asked me another question, which I refused to answer. And I said I want your name and your badge number because I want to file a complaint because of the way he had treated me at the front door. He didn’t say, ‘Excuse me, sir, is there a disturbance here, is this your house?’—he demanded that I step out on the porch, and I don’t think he would have done that if I was a white person.
But at that point, I realized that I was in danger. And so I said to him that I want your name, and I want your badge number and I said it repeatedly.
In case y'all forgot, the pig's report was different. According to the pig, Mr. Gates gets pissed and says something about being black, which honestly doesn't jive. Sounds like a pig smokescreen. Anyways, Mr. Gates breaks it down:
The police report says I was engaged in loud and tumultuous behavior. That’s a joke. Because I have a severe bronchial infection which I contracted in China and for which I was treated and have a doctor’s report from the Peninsula hotel in Beijing. So I couldn’t have yelled. I can’t yell even today, I’m not fully cured.
It escalated as follows: I kept saying to him, ‘What is your name, and what is your badge number?’ and he refused to respond. I asked him three times, and he refused to respond. And then I said, ‘You’re not responding because I’m a black man, and you’re a white officer.’ That’s what I said. He didn’t say anything. He turned his back to me and turned back to the porch. And I followed him. I kept saying, “I want your name, and I want your badge number.”
It looked like an ocean of police had gathered on my front porch. There were probably half a dozen police officers at this point. The mistake I made was I stepped onto the front porch and asked one of his colleagues for his name and badge number. And when I did, the same officer said, ‘Thank you for accommodating our request. You are under arrest.’ And he handcuffed me right there. It was outrageous. My hands were behind my back I said, ‘I’m handicapped. I walk with a cane. I can’t walk to the squad car like this.’ There was a huddle among the officers; there was a black man among them. They removed the cuffs from the back and put them around the front.
A crowd had gathered, and as they were handcuffing me and walking me out to the car, I said, ‘Is this how you treat a black man in America?’
...and yes, I'm going to take the word of a man who is a distinguished member at a prestigious university over some punkass cop.
Don't none of y'all tell me there ain't no racism in the U.S. It is alive, and it is well. After all, this is the same country that has some of its folk bitching about a lie that President Obama (yeah, I said PRESIDENT Obama, not this Mr. Obama shit that some news outlet still use) wasn't born in the U.S. What tickles me pink is that he's shown a birth certificate, but now they want another one. What? Dude was hatched? Really? Bitter-ass bastards... I doubt this shit happens if dude was white. Y'know how they'd act? "Oh wow, he has such a culturally rich background... this is just proof that our country is so diverse!"
Seriously, the more I hear about this, the more I think of this:
Sure it seems like so long ago, but it's much closer to reality than you'd think.
This'll prolly be my last MJ-related post (for a while).
Sadly, it is apparent that we as peeps don't appreciate shit until it's gone. I watched the news and see incredible amounts of outpouring of emotion the past week and a half. Too bad we never showed even a small fraction of this love. Wait, lemme take it back- Europeans in general had. Japanese had. ...and the ones closest to him? Not so much. It really is a pity.
It is also apprent that peeps don't fucking understand the idea of "innocent until proven guilty." I've heard some of my friends say that "it's great there's one fewer child molester out there." As I remind people, that hasn't been proven. What would they have others say if they were accused of shit they never did?
...and it's not like he can sue the parents. Can you imagine the headlines? "MJ sues parents of terminally ill child for slander." Yeah, he was fucked in the ass (w/o lube) no matter what he did. That's what makes it so messed up.
For those of us that were lucky enough to go to Disneyland in the late 80s-early 90s, we were treated to the 3D spectacle known as "Captain EO"- a short movie starring Michael Jackson. It doesn't look so great because this was all supposed to be in 3D and this is... well, yeah, in 2D. Anyways, Captain EO!
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