Monday Moaning

Last week I talked about the Summertime Blues...This week...I don't know...I really don't have much...By much, I mean I've got nothing when it comes to sports...Honestly, I just haven't paid attention...I've slacked at paying attention to blogs or sports sites, and most everything...

But then came Saturday night...The so-called news media has been firmly planted in the George Zimmerman trial, and have refused pay any attention to 99% of the news that is happening...Some of them have been banging the drum for Justice for  Trayvon Martin but have ignored the countless other crimes, shootings, and deaths...Like last weekend when there were 72 shootings in Chicago, with 16 deaths... Mostly black and young....Why don't they get the same coverage as Trayvon Martin...

So back to Saturday, when the verdict came down just after 10:00 PM, that George Zimmerman was found, not guilty...The Internet went crazy...Twitter went wild...more wild then when Sharknado aired....But people, we have to remember something here...We live in a country where everyone is "Innocent until proven Guilty"....Not the other way around...Would you want to live somewhere like that...I recall a place like that...It was Russia, under Stalin...You know the good ole days when he killed over 20 million of his own people...

The fact of the matter is, the state must prove the defendant is guilty...If you paid any attention to the trial, you know they didn't...Zimmerman never denied shooting Trayvon Martin...That was never in question...It was all about whether it was done in self-defense...And the state couldn't prove he was guilty of cold blooded murder....You may disagree...But that is our system...And we weren't able  to have the full knowledge that the jury did...6 women, found Zimmerman not guilty of murder...The system is the system, and it worked, for better or worse...

That should be it...Game over...But people went nuts on Twitter and facebook...Different groups want action taken against Zimmerman, damn what the justice system says...People want the Department of Justice and the President to step in and find a way to go after Zimmerman...Rallies are being planned...Then I saw Roddy White's tweet...

Roddy White‏@roddywhiteTV13 Jul

All them jurors should go home tonight and kill themselves for letting a grown man get away with killing a kid

 

Hey Roddy, wishing the jurors to kill themselves makes you no better then Zimmerman...I'm getting sick of a lot of the dopes on twitter, but without a doubt, athletes have taken the lead in the assholes on twitter race.

 

People need pull back...Hey, if you disagree with what the jury says, that's fine...But fucking grow up about it...And no offense, but why the fuck aren't you crying about all the other dead kids? Kids are dying every day...Why aren't you screaming about justice for Elaina Steinfurth...She's 18 months old...She's been missing since June 2nd...After her mother's boyfriend threw her against the wall...And the piecse of shit mother did nothing to help her...Instead covered it up for him...Now Elaina is missing...Reports suggesting that she was tossed off a bridge into the Maumee...

 

Where's her fucking justice? 

 

But wait, she's white...And this fucking Zimmerman case spiralled into a near race war right from the rip...From day one the fact that a white-ish guy shot a black teenager has been shoved in our face...Would it have been shoved in our face if it was a black-ish guy that shot a white teenager...No...We wouldn't have had months and months of non-stop coverage of the story...That doesn't happen...That isn't sexy and that doesn't cause controversy...

 

And fuck the #HoodieUp shit....My white ass has been wearing hoodies for the last 37 years...My wife doesn't take her pasty white ass anywhere without a hoodie...Hoodies aren't symbol, they're something to keep you warm...Stop ruining my hoodies you mother fuckers!

 

When I woke up Sunday morning and saw comments on Twitter and facebook, I knew it was going to be a long day...Then I popped on the TV...The trial is over, and still, all Zimmerman, all the time...Well, I've had enough...So Avoided TV all day, and took Molls to Memphis Kiddie Park...

 

So what else have I been doing, besides my normal Dad/Coach duties, since I haven't been paying attention to sports and blogging? I've found myself digging into music...looking for good music...New, old, interesting, whatever...So, I'll start sharing something new with you each week, and yes, I'll get my head back in the sports blogging game as well....This week I'm sharing Gary Clark Jr.
He's an awesome guitar player, who at first look would just seem to be in the Psychedelic/blues area...But if you dig into his collection, he travels all over while being rooted in Blues...I'm picking this clip where he covers Hendrix and Albert Collins...And if you remember our old friend 3rdStone, you'll get why....

 

And speaking of 3rd...In case you missed IT...

Have a week...

The Beeze.

I Am Not Trayvon Martin

No, I'm not...And I'm not going to get on a silly bandwagon saying I am...It would be moronic of me to say "I am Trayvon"...I have no idea what life was like in his shoes...He was a black teenager, and I'm a 36 year old white guy with 3 kids, a wife and a mortgage...I grew up in the suburbs and went to private school...I'm not Trayvon, and I don't want to be...Poor kid is dead...

And I don't need to wear a hoodie...Oh wait, I do...I live in Cleveland, I wear a hoodie almost every day for 7 months out of the year...Of all the crap that has gone on with this story, the hoodie thing was the first thing to really piss me off...People saying he was shot because he was wearing a hoodie and was profiled...People like Geraldo Riveria saying the hoodie had as much to do with his death, as George Zimmerman...Holy fuck that is one of the six most retarded things I have ever heard...

I see people of all races in hoodies every day, and I don't profile them, nor do I think they need to be shot...Hell at the Fish House, in one shift, I'll see 2 black guys, a Hispanic chick, a Palestinian, and two whit guys all show up wearing hoodies...No one has been shot yet, not even my hoodie wearing big mouth...

Now the facts of this case are just sketchy as hell...And then when the media decided to cover it, the majority of them jumped automatically to the side of Trayvon...The problem is, when I grew up, TV news was suppose to report the news...But now we have 3 major, 24 hour news channels, that compete with each other drive-time radio talk shows...So they editorialize, take their sides and fill people's heads with opinions instead of facts...

And the facts in this case have been limited...Zimmerman seems like a douche...From what I heard when he called 911, this guy was too gung-ho to get this kid...Then it was said that Trayvon beat his ass, and that's what got him shot...Although the video released last week made it look like Zimmerman didn't have a scratch on him...But be honest, it wasn't the best footage...That said, if this creep started following me, I probably would have had words with him...Depending on how the words went, I'd probably swing on him...

Now there are "experts" analyzing the 911 calls trying to say who's voice is who's...

The thing is, none of us were there...So why the fuck are we all putting in our two cents? And why this case? In this world, kids die everyday...Shit narrow it down to the U.S. ...Everyday kids are dying violent deaths, and little to nothing is said...It's blocked out...But if shit gets slow, the media picks a story, and stirs the pot...

So why didn't they pick THIS story? Two kids lighting another kid on fire wasn't good enough...And why in the Trayvon Martin shooting is so much made about the fact that he was black...Yet, in the story I just linked above, they try to keep it quiet that it was 2 black kids lighting a white kid on fire...Al Sharpton was out there in front of cameras and microphones for Trayvon...Why won't he do the same a white kid named Allen Goin? Because he's one of the biggest, fucking, racists alive...Shit, I use to watch some shit on MSNBC, but once they gave that evil fuck a show, they lost a lot of credibility...Sorry Rachael Maddow, I like you, but your network fucked up...

The media barely let anyone know about this story because they refuse to show racism going both ways...They don't even want to come close to accusing a black person of a racially motivated attack...The PC world we live in has cut the balls off the news media...

Why is there almost no coverage about THESE two teens that were shot Saturday?

There is awful, fucking violence going on everyday in this country...Far too much of it involves the youth of this country...But the news media picks and chooses what they want to share with the public...They stir the pot, they feed the fears...It's frighting to think about just how much power and influence these media corporations have over the viewing public...

Why do we even call it news...Remember when Wrestling came out and finally started calling what they did, "Sports Entertainment"...It's time for the news to come out of the closet and start saying they're "News Entertainment."

I'm sorry Trayvon Martin is dead...But I'm not him...I'm sorry Allen Goin got set on fire...But I'm not him...I'm me, and too busy telling my kids the truth, and teaching them right from wrong, to be anyone else...Because I know the "News Entertainment" won't teach them that!

Later, The Beeze.