re: Dave chappelles new special

That was pretty incredible. I had a little extra time so I watched it this morning. I could’ve listened to dude talk for two more hours. I was getting goosebumps towards the middle leading to the end when he started re-counting all the things that happened.

<3333 me some Dave

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Not really a comedy special

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you don't say

More bullshite. There was nothing stopping Martin from high tailing it home and telling his dad he was being stalked. Zimmerman wasn’t between him and home.

And I’ll eat you big money Martin could outrun fat old Zimmerman.

Martin chose to engage instead of run and died because of it.

“Don’t start none, won’t be none” isn’t just a cute saying.

I just watched it, man that was heavy.

My first thought is I really do hate that because of all the riots that happened, that a lot of focus was shifted away from the horrific tragedy with George Floyd. Since then, there has been a bigger focus on the riots and looting that happened nationwide. This was a case where finally most people agreed the cop was in the wrong, fricked up hugely, I believe there was to be some progress made, but all of that ended with the rioting. That brought us steps backward instead of forward. Now the whole #defundthepolice movement is taking us even further back, instead of forward. This entire country is stupid, I swear.

One thing I admit that I did not know was the backstory to the Chris Dorner thing. I thought he was just another random serial killer. But the fact that apparently he tried to speak out against fellow officers and got fired for that is really fricked up. Obviously the acts he did were very despicable, but police should not be afraid of being reprimanded if they try to speak out and hold a fellow officer accountable. That is something that must change imo.

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Yang's policies are very pro-capitalist and forward thinking.

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But part I cannot agree with Dave on is his stance on Trayvon Martin. That was no "innocent kid just buying Skittles". That was a kid who had embraced the thug culture and was on the path of becoming a shitheal thug.

He was up to no good that night. He attacked Zimmerman. Now, Z is no saint by any means. But when attacked, the man had the right to defend himself.

Trayvon wasn't "murdered". He was killed. He'd still be alive today had he not attacked Z.

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I don't wanna get into a long debate on Trayvon again, as I've done that many times already. But the way I see it is this, he was not the innocent media darling 14 year old child who randomly got murdered walking home, as the media portrayed.
But at the same time, I don't buy the other extreme that he was up to no good and looking to start trouble. I see it as this, he went to the lil convenience store late night, and really was genuinely walking home minding his business. Zimmerman being Mr wannabe cop, not knowing how to mind his business, started following him. If I see someone following me in the middle of the night, I would be spooked too. One could reasonably say that if you are being followed by a stranger, you may not want to go directly home, as then that person knows where you live.

For Trayvon, Fight or Flight kicked in. Unfortunately he chose the wrong decision with fight or flight.

In any case, I don't like including this case in with police brutality. Zimm wasn't a cop, and this should be treated as everyday violence, and not police violence. Which I like to place in different categories

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But why do the rare cases of innocent blacks dying at the hands of whites seem to generate so much more emotion than the much more common cases of innocent blacks dying at the hands of blacks?

Dave's not wrong for being upset about a murder. That's just being an empathetic human. But where was the Dave Chappelle special for the 24 murders in Chicago last weekend?

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My take is this, in a way, people pay most attention to these police involved cases directly because of the media and social media. National news make these police cases with random black person headlines, and that will dominate social media feeds. It becomes engrained in you.

Folks don't pay attention to everyday violence simply because it has no attention. It will play on your local news channel, but that's about it. People don't really see these cases of everyday violence, so in a way they can pretend it doesn't exist. You can't pretend these cases of police killings don't exist,, because it is right in front of you.

Another way you can look at it is Katrina. Obviously Katrina was very detrimental to South LA and Miss. It dominated Nationa l news for over a month. But if we being honest, since then there has been other national disasters that were just as devestating if not more that has happened in other countries. But we don't see or hear about those everyday, so it basically doesn't exist here.

In other words, out of sight. Out of mind.

Why weren’t we mad when he robed a pregnant women with a gun?

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Easy to say when you're not the one being stalked.

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Ahh.. drama queens.