I'm going to be sure and eat an ice cream cone today, just for Rodney. That's all. Because ice cream is good. People generally suck. Life generally sucks. But ice cream is just good.
You can't take shit away from ice cream,...
Sunday, June 17, 2012
This Country's Tragedies Are Devastating (RIP Rodney)
I'm going to be sure and eat an ice cream cone today, just for Rodney. That's all. Because ice cream is good. People generally suck. Life generally sucks. But ice cream is just good.
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Never had a problem with Rodney, and can't imagine why anyone would be "happy" that he's died. Seemed like a decent guy to me, who maybe liked his booze a bit too much.
ReplyDeleteSo what's to hate?
I apologize for not being clear. I'm a bit discombobulated over this:
ReplyDeleteMine was a statement about "smiley face" culture, and how some never share in it, while those who are insist it's the only way to live - I hate the very assumption.
Most black people, yours truly included, do not share the "we're all one" philosophy - this life doesn't allow for that. It's (generally) a beating, one group against another, to our eternal shame.
We're usually more like caged animals than anything else, and I sincerely don't think a guy like Rodney stood a chance.
"I sometimes feel like I'm caught in a vise. Some people feel like I'm some kind of hero," he told The Times earlier this year. "Others hate me. They say I deserved it. Other people, I can hear them mocking me for when I called for an end to the destruction, like I'm a fool for believing in peace."
ReplyDelete- Rodney King
Rodney King RIP.
ReplyDeleteThe whole race thing throws me, I guess, because I just never thought it important. I have more in common with Coltrane than Obama does, and I'm a white Irish guy. Poor Rodney got caught up in the racial symbol machine, identity politics writ large, and it was not of his doing. I blame the race hustlers.
ReplyDeleteSorry...that anonymous comment was me
ReplyDeleteThe "race thing" (as explained to me by my dear, old, bigoted dad):
ReplyDeletePeople, especially when times are bad, will cling to "their own kind", because that's the way people are. It isn't very noble, probably isn't the right thing to do -- but people are not as a general rule noble or righteous; when it comes right down to it all high minded principles get pitched in the trash. They'll stick with what appears to them as "safe" and they will, if things get really bad in their eyes, attack what appears as "unsafe" (aka. people not of "their kind").
He then went on to advise that a person should always attempt to be a good person, to resist getting caught up in acting like a deranged, cannibalistic, shit throwing chimp (and that the goodytwoshoes of this world would be the first to go that way fyi), but the first thing a person had better get out of their head (and the first step towards keeping one's humanity) was to toss the notion that deep down inside this "we are all one" and "I'd like to buy the world a Coke" were just wishful thinking and figments of our imagination. You can't learn to restrain those nasty impulses until you acknowledge that you have them same as everybody else.
...and when times get tough it might be a good idea to play it safe (eh, he admitted he was a bigot...he was also a misanthrope too, admitted to that as well).
The more I think about it, the more I think he might have been on to something. It is what it is. PW