That image is poignant with what I’m about to go into. That is the protagonist (one of them) in a documentary named “Empire of Dust”. I’ve watched it many times and crack up each time. In that scene, he’s watching a crew of Congolese workers struggle with fixing the tailgate on a dump truck they’ve all but destroyed. The Chinese workers foibles dealing with the indigenous population (IPs) is bargain entertainment.
I used to watch a couple black you-tubers; “Officer Tatum” and Anthony Brian Logan (ABL). Tatum ended up with a radio gig and more or less had nothing to say. I think all he does now is repackage radio clips to manufacture clickbait. These days he’s milking the Karmelo Anthony saga for all it’s worth. Big shocking title on a video, nothing to say underneath.
ABL used to have interesting takes on things. I kind of like his style. But lately notsomuch. I caught a gutful and wrote a bit about it here.
One of the black youtubers I used to watch went on a riff about how what the thug wannabe did didn’t fit the precise definition of murder or manslaughter in Texas. I agree with it not being manslaughter. It wasn’t an unintentional thing. His point was that murder needed premeditation. Guess what, chief, bringing a deadly weapon to a school meet (The law sees it same as a gun in these matters), provoking the fight with your hand on the weapon is in fact, premeditation. At least to me. By the way, there’s a lot of defense sites I read that if you use a weapon, the fact that you had it on you can be construed as you planned to use it. Premeditation. That’s why the self defense rules are so tight. – Me
Well, he’s at it again. I’ll spare the video, but use one from Mark Dice fisking it out, which is funnier:
If you don’t know him, ABL is the dude in the “1865” hat. In that video, he elaborates some more parroting the same points I’ve heard DFW’s own village idiot, Jasmine Crockett spewing.
- Didn’t measure up to Murder: I covered that before. It most certainly did. You don’t get to use self defense when you brought a weapon to a school track meet, and reached for it as you start a fight with another dude.
- The knife was only three inches: Doesn’t matter. He stabbed a dude with it and that dude died. It’s then ipso facto a deadly weapon. Recall that the 911 high jackers used box cutters. Those have a less than an inch blade. The Kershaw Leek clipped in my pocket has just under 3″, and it’s sharp as a scalpel. It would, for sure, open up an artery with minimal pressure. In Texas, it doesn’t matter. In a situation like this it’s no different than a sword or gun to the law. (That I heard from a lawyer)
- Black men/boys boundaries: This is the dumbest. Apparently you aren’t allowed to ask a black male to leave, or shove him if he doesn’t.
The boundaries one blew me away and he isn’t the only one I’ve heard say that. Black males are what? 6% of our population? Blacks themselves are 13% and change. Am I to understand that the rest of us 87% have to have special training to deal with the cultural idiosyncracies of 6% os so of the population? How are we to know? So we now need to treat them all with kids gloves, lest they stab us if we rub them the wrong way? Should we now act as if a feral animal came in the tent, so we need to leave quietly so as not to excite him? Is that a world anyone wants to live in?
This is nonsense. If ABL wants to go that route, fine. Riddle me this then, batman; Did Karmelo Anthony respect the other kids boundaries when he went in that tent, then dug in when they were telling him he has to leave? It’s part of the 87% culture that if we’re where we don’t belong, aren’t wanted, and asked to leave that we respect those wishes. Shouldn’t our hero here have understood that? This was Frisco TX, by the way. It’s an affluent, very mixed, city.
Here’s the other deal here. Austin Metcalf was a student at a Frisco high school. Nearly all the high schools, and schools in general, in the north like Plano, Allen, Murphy are all similar. He went all his years in that school system being taught that we are all the same, regardless of skin tone. He’d gone to classes with all types, even blacks. He no doubt had black friends and teammates. I’ve known many of these kids, mostly my own kids friends. They had no street smarts. They treat everyone the same. They don’t understand ghetto behavior. It’s why those high school boys were killed at a waffle house in Richardson. Babes in the concrete jungle.
There are things worth fighting over and things that aren’t worth it. This situation wasn’t one worth fighting over. In all the testimony, all the gibbering about this, I never heard anyone ask why he didn’t just leave instead of flexing. Now, are we to understand this is a new black privilege? Should we change the culture of our schools here and teach this?
It isn’t us 87% that have to adapt. It’s those in the 13% that haven’t and need to.
Regardless. I’m tired of the excuses. ABL should think long and hard about that cultural boundaries silliness. This thinking doesn’t get us anywhere good. You can have ‘content of their character” or be treated differently. You can’t have both.
In any event, like Tatum, ABL got old and boring. Went full Jasmine Crockett. Not interested in a thing either has to say any longer.
Inspected By Pat 