Unadulterated
it is clear
that I misunderstood
your intentions
read something into your intonation
when you said
‘they don’t deserve to live
the Bible tells me so
my right as a normal male
means I am not bound
by any man-made law
that goes against
my authentic self’
I didn’t realize
you were joking
that when I repeated what you said
by taking it out of context
I had made you appear
to be a racist sexist bigot
some of my best friends are racists
I may not approve their life style
but they have every right to be who they are
just as you do
I didn’t judge
your statements
it’s not my intention
to cast them in a negative light
I merely reposted them
to make others aware of them
that others
took umbrage
is a consequence beyond my ability
to contain
defend or reverse
I understand
you were iterating
the well founded grounded logic
appropriately permitted
tenets of those around you
you have the printed parchment proof
and besides
you really didn’t say that
the dash board cam was faulty
the TV crew was manipulating you
the statement you published
wasn’t written by you
so it is my fault
for relating it verbatim
it wasn’t meant for the general public
who were watching the national broadcast
only for those already in agreement with you
accept my apology
for misrepresenting your statements
by repeating them
unadulterated
There is no such thing as unbiased news. We get sensationalized reports of select current events. News is entertainment & as real as The Simpsons. I watched a documentary about Elián González (he grew up to be quite a hottie btw). When he was returned to Cuba, & grown up enough to have a voice of his own, in which he embraced the Cuban political system, his Miami relatives said he was brain washed. Clearly his rejection of the American dream they wanted him to embrace made him brain washed. Perhaps his American dream didn’t include getting shot in an high school massacre.
But I digress – this piece is another take on my jaded opinion of the news. I was thinking of the Rodney King trial in which that video of his ‘take down’ by the police was played in the slowest possible way to be interpreted properly. Each twitch of pain as he was being beaten was actually him resisting arrest. You know, on first glance I did not see that.
Now the president of the USA makes statements in press conferences that the next day he denies ever having said. Or, as many a political does, says that wasn’t what he meant, that he mis-spoke, that he is now being misquoted. We’re taking it the wrong way so the fault is clearly ours & making him culpable for his remarks or actions is envy. We are haters who resent his power.
There is also an echo here of how Scripture is used to justify anything. To question that is to be anti-religion & unwilling to listen to reason. I’m no biblical scholar so if someone can point out the sections that refer to school massacres as the actions of the righteous I’ll be pleased to give it further study.
As you might gather I no longer read newspapers, no longer watch TV news to keep up on current events. I’m one of those who opts not to chose sides when both sides are clearly right. No, that’s a lie. I have taken a side & do what I can to be supportive to what is relevant to my insular life. I avoid high schools.
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