Apparently President Obama doesn’t
know what it is like to be a member of an oppressed minority.
Let’s change one word in what Mr.
Obama said.
“We don’t have a monopoly on black
people.”
Look at Nigeria, the Central
African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The black people there are killing each other
by the hundreds, thousands, and millions over religious and ethnic differences. In the United States the same thing is
expressed as Bloods versus Crips and East Side versus West Side. In the 1990s it was Tutsi versus Hutu in Rwanda
and Burundi. In the US it was Tupac
versus Biggie Smalls.
The United States has the best
justice system in the world. Our juries
are comprised of citizens vetted by qualified attorneys who attended first-class
law schools, lawyers just like the President and the First Lady. Our prisons are full of black people for a
reason. George Zimmerman was acquitted
for killing Trayvon Martin because black people are as prone to violence as
crazy people.
The solution to all the violence
caused by black people is simple. Put all
their names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and anything else useful in
tracking them in an FBI database, accessible to anyone so they can’t buy guns
at gun shows. Or get jobs. Or rent apartments in my neighborhood. Some people suggest we preemptively round up
all the black people and put them in jail, or camps, or send them back to
Africa, or just kill them. That seems
pretty extreme, but how much violent crime do they have in Sweden or Iceland? White people haven’t gone to war with each
other over ethnic differences since the 20th century. Muslims don’t count, because they’re worse
than the blacks.
I sure as hell am glad I never ran
into a crazy black person like Wesley Willis.
He would have killed me with his keyboard. I don’t know how he found the time to make so
many records when he must have been killing more people around Chicago than all
the drug dealers there.
Have I spewed enough hate for you,
Mr. Obama?
I’m not in the least surprised you
can’t associate the fear, hatred, violence, stigma and degradation directed at
the mentally ill with the exact same thing directed at African Americans,
Muslims, immigrants, homosexuals, Mormons, people receiving some form of
government assistance, or anyone else not considered ‘real Americans’ by
whoever defines themself as a ‘real American.’
Why? Because the mentally
interesting are less than human. We’re the
one group everyone can agree is lower
than undocumented terrorists who have entered this country illegally to steal
the jobs of domestic terrorists.
I don’t have a problem with being
called “crazy.” I self-identify as “batshit
crazy.” Politically correct “person
first” bullshit isn’t going to make things better. It’s not the terminology that hurts, it’s everything
else.
Let’s examine things a little
closer.
In referring to mass shootings, especially
at schools, Mr. Obama also said, “We get a new one every week it seems.”
There have been 74 shootings at
schools since Sandy Hook.
I could find
instances of ten, count them, 10 people with either a history, or
after-the-fact diagnosis, of a mental illness of some kind who were the
shooters, attempted to harm people at a school, didn’t use a gun, or merely
threatened violence at a school.
Incidents
in the last two groups weren’t included in the 74 incidents that made it into
whatever sources are used by the media outlets quoting that figure.
Doing really bad statistical analysis by
including the people who didn’t use guns or
didn’t
do anything in the group of crazies who shot or shot at students, that means
13.5% of the most recent school shootings were committed, or potentially
committed, by lunatics.
The generally
accepted figure bandied about is one person in four will have some form of
mental health issue in their life, so using even more bad statistics – just like
politicians and most media outlets like to do - that’s not even meeting random
chance probabilities.
We.
Aren’t. The. Problem.
OK Mr. Obama, let’s replace “black”
with “crazy,” and do a little editing, in part of what I wrote to show you how your
bigotry will just make things worse for us.
The solution to all the violence
caused by crazy people is simple. Put all
their names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and anything else useful in
tracking them in an FBI database, accessible to anyone so they can’t buy guns
at gun shows. Or get jobs. Or rent apartments in my neighborhood. Some people suggest we preemptively round up
all the crazy people and put them in jail, or camps, or just kill them. That seems pretty extreme, but how much
violent crime caused by crazies do they have in Germany?
Jesus didn’t have a problem with us,
and got pissed off at people who did. Including
his disciples. Matthew 17:14-20. That’s not a particularly obscure
passage. Give it a read, Mr. President,
and rethink your bigotry.
Guess us crazies has to get all uppity about our civil rights by our own selfs. Else we all gonna haf’ ta pass as not crazy
by not goin’ to no doctors and takin’ no medicines that’ll git us in a big FBI
list the whole wide world kin read.
If this feels like
déjà vu all over again, you're right. See:
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