IMHO, Florida can just take the whole f*cking south with them and get outta dodge. They can have the name ‘Amerkuh’ too if they want it that badly, just so long as they take Bubba-Jeb with ‘em. Just cut off the whole damned state and float away. Far away. Things like this are prime examples of why humanity is heading down the flusher. That poor kid. I can’t help but wonder if such treatment would have been given to a white child.

Thanks for hosting this excellent blog, I’ve really been enjoying it a lot.

I sympathize with your frustration over idiots and idiocies of Southern origin (starting with W stealing the election!), but I disagree that dismissing all Southerners as fanatics is the answer. Plenty of worthy folks live in the South, and plenty of assholes inhabit the so-called blue states. Racist cops are everywhere. Remember Abner Louima, the Haitian who was tortured while in custody of the NYC police? And of course, the mutha of all racially-motivated police brutality cases, the Rodney King beating, took place not in Mississippi but in L.A.

Twisty

P.S. Thanks for the nice compliment!

But you’re right, Twisty. Racism is everywhere, unfortunately. Not just in the South. In fact, right here where I live near Oakland, there have been several race riots over the past few years. I also have friends and family living in various southern states where cool and interesting things are happening amidst all of the problems. It’s all relative. Good that you brought that up.

I appreciate your response to my comments. I posted a link to this over at my blog after reading about it here. You might be interested in some of the comments it generated.

Incidentally, from what I could see from the video she was actually fairly calm just before the police arrived so there isn’t even the justification that some have made ie that it was for her own safety to prevent her hurting herself. Nor (from the video again) was her behaviour that bad in the first place.