Just DUMB, STUPID, OBVIOUS inequity in the evaluation of what’s just/justice for a response to . . .

Blatant Racism is an act, a word, a decision, an interpretation of a situation that defies all common sense and can only be described, identified and comprehended as an act of “racism” and therefore not requiring the need for reality testing or basic common sense. It is so profoundly obvious and blatant that it often goes undetected as an offense. It is however, meant as an offense.

There are two articles that I wrote on this subject as these

kinds of injustices are typically everyday incidents encountered without fanfare by African Americans. These two are highlighted as they both received the national attention that all such incidents deserve to receive. Yet, I don’t believe either was recognized for the truly blatant disregard for the equality, justice or respect the victims were entitled to even with national attention.

I wrote about the incident of football great Michael Vick’s encounter with “the Law” and his resulting punishment.  I compare it to the treatment of another “celebrity” committing “morally” essentially the same crime but without censure.

The second piece recounts the Jena 6 incident with my interpretation/perception/perspective of how profoundly unjust and unequal the crimes and sentences were for the perpetrators, white and black.

Michael Vick

Michael Vick was arrested, convicted and served time in prison for owning and operating a dog fighting business. The business was considered immoral and brutal to the dogs. PETA went crazy with accusations of animal cruelty. Michael Vick did not invent dog fighting and had grown up with and witnessed others involved in dog fighting. Dog fighting continues to this day without arrests, convictions and incarcerations. Was Michael Vick’s operation somehow more heinous than everyone else’? I don’t support dog fighting but I don’t condemn one arena over another.

Michael Vick has just returned to professional football where he had been a star quarterback. He was and is under severe attack for getting a second chance to pursue his career, using his god given talent. Serving your time, paying your debt to society, and being rehabilitated, an American principle, somehow does not apply to him. Michael Vick is a Black man.

The ex-governor and Vice Presidential candidate for the 2008 Republican Party, Sarah Palin, personally flies around Alaska shooting wolves from a plane with a high powered rifle. This gives the animal no fighting chance for survival as they have no natural instinct for competing against a plane and a high powered rifle. She is not ostracized much less arrested, convicted, nor does she serve time for the ultimate act of animal cruelty, death. This is LEGAL in Alaska, perhaps a sport. PETA says or does nothing about her activities. Is it because the principle of animal protection from cruelty is somehow different if it is legal? Perhaps then, it isn’t cruel? Will she continue to have a political career? Will she perhaps run for President in 2012?  Sarah Palin is a white woman.   Equal Justice?  Common Sense?  Racist Circus Act?

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