So as a new season begins I'm motivated to finally clear this out of my closet. A lot of people have ask for my opinion of this situation and I've decided that now is when I'll say something. Partly because all the new info will overwhelm this little blog of mine and partly because it took me this long to make up my mind on how I felt. . . I wasn't there. I like pretty much everyone else in the world including a majority of the people who volunteered their judgements and opinions wasn't there. I can't say what did or didn't happen, or who started it, or if it was meant the way it was interpreted by the press. I don't know the people involved and don't think that I'll ever meet them. But regardless of all that this thing sticks out to me: I think it was easy to go after the black guy. . . . So often people use mean words to hurt each other and I think that is a part of what can make the world a sometimes unpleasant place to be. But so many people use so many mean words and so many people use this mean word, but only one guy, who happened to black, lost his job. The American press and society as a whole has a well-known habit of making minorites the face of crime and people who cause others pain. And anyone who does the smallest bit of research knows why that's unfair. There is so much I could say about this issue but basically I think it all boils down to this: I do not think that people should direct hate towards one another because it does anything but make the world a safer place. Anyone who has been attacked with words of hate has the right to defend themselves. But I wish that the people who went after this man and made him a poster boy of hate would spend the same amount of time and energy going after every other person who sits in a position of power and uses hate and fear to make sure that some people get treated like less than human beings. In America, going after the black guy has always been easy but that doesn't make it right and it doesn't make it the only option. I hope that in the coming months I will see those who fought so hard to get this man put in the doghouse, fighting just as hard or maybe harder to put people who actually have the power to affect their civil rights put in the same place. I hope I will, But sadly I doubt it. . . If you know what I talking about that alone speaks volumes. . . I will not be clarifying any other particulars of this opinion. You may conjecture on the specific incident but I urge you to pay a lot more attention to the ramifications of the topic on society as a whole.