i weep for the future

Posted by Black in The Baystate on March 13, 2011 · 8 Comments 

This video was sent to me and I was unable to take the time to write about it. Since things have lightened up a bit on my end, I thought it was time I shared it with you. If you don’t like violence, blood curdling screams and general foolish behavior, please don’t watch.

The context of the video according to the title is a disagreement that stems from a missing pack of cigarettes. For obvious reasons, any fight over a item under 10 bucks is silly. But a fight such as this one over ANYTHING is also silly. So now when you combine the two factors, both a low value product as well as the excessive violence demonstrated by this beasts, words simply fail me. Would it be out of line to say that I am afraid of African American people? Some would say yes, because that statement is racist and a gross generalization of the black race in America. Then I must counter with the fact that I’d rather be safe than sorry. That I would prefer to be cautious of you, find out I was wrong and be forced to extend an apology than to let my guard down only to discover that you are one of them.

To those of us who work and have our paychecks be systematically raped by the government for our tax dollars, now you can see where it’s going: gladiator style housing projects. If you are not outraged by this video alone and even more so by the context, I have to wonder if you have the same level of brain function as those who participated in the fight.

For those who have read a few of my posts, you already know that I love lists. And for the purpose of this video, I think that making a list to point out the top 5 things that are ass backwards in this video to show that how people like that do not fit in with the rest of society, is quite appropriate.

1. Between 6 and 8 seconds, there is a woman with a giant kitchen knife.
2. Right at 18 seconds a male jumps in… Honestly I never expected him to break up the fight like a real man should, and he didn’t disappoint. He attacked a woman instead.
3. At 53 seconds, there’s this beastly looking female (I assume because of what appears to be breasts on her chest) creature with a makeshift weapon. I’m going to guess she’s been in the slammer. Homemade weaponry that is easily accessible is not a real life skill that the rest of us acquire. This looks like someone who’s been in a lot of yard fights over cigarettes before.
4. There are children all throughout the video just crying! This proves that we learn to be desensitized to violence and that it is not something we are born with, regardless of what defective genetic pool we come from, ie parents such as these.
5. At 1mn50secs, a male walks up, looks down at a trio of females on the ground and walks away. Again, no move to break up the fight.

With all these people on the sidelines, no one, and I mean no one makes a move to break up the fight or call the police. This would never happen in mainstream America because the minute arguments get heated, the initial reaction (the logical one as well) to do is to notify law enforcement so the safety of those present is not compromised. But those in the video don’t care about the safety of others or their own. They are just delighted by what to them is a form of entertainment.

This mindset is reflective of individuals with no empathy for people from their communities, for people who look like them or people who live in the same housing complex. I don’t know those individuals and I cringed at the certain pain that most of them felt as they got hit. At the same time, the male who is filming chuckles and gives us a play by play with his “Bam! Bam!” as he witnesses the animal-like actions first hand.

Violence of that nature would terrify me if I witnessed it in person. However, that’s on the only thing that scares me. Knowing that the cycle will not be broken is even more terrifying. This is clearly learned behavior and there are children in the video picking up on those cues. For now they are crying, as they should be, but give it a few years and this will be normal. A few more years, and they will be participating. So even when those folks die out, either from old age or an early death at the hand of an other violent criminal, there will be a new crop of mentally ill (yes, because you have to be crazy to act like that) people to take their place. So our children will not be any safer than we were.

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