BALTIMORE REALNESS: HOW TO COUNTERACT THE CHALLENGE TO OUR RIGHT TO PRACTICE CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

LONG LIVE OUR RIGHT TO CHOOSE CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE!

BALTIMORE SPRING 2015 A REMEDY FOR CULTURAL WAKEFULNESS!

I SUPPORT THOSE WHO DEFY THE CURFEW IN BALTIMORE AS LONG AS THEY ARE PEACEFUL IN THEIR DEFIANCE!  WE HAVE TO SEPARATE THE VIOLENT FROM THE PEACEFUL, THEY ARE NOT THE SAME EVEN THOUGH THEY MAY ALL BE OF THE SAME RACE.  THE MEDIA PRESENCE IN CHARM CITY IS A MIXED BLESSING.  THE MEDIA HAS ALWAYS IGNORED BALTIMORE ESPECIALLY WEST BALTIMORE BECAUSE IT IS JUST NOT PRETTY, AFFLUENT, TRENDY OR FASHIONABLE.  IN ORDER FOR WEST BALTIMORE TO CAPTURE THE ATTENTION OF THE MEDIA THEY HAD TO MANUFACTURE AN URBAN CONFLAGRATION SENDING SMOKE COLUMNS INTO THE HEAVENS... THE MEDIA IS ALIEN HERE, THEY ARE THE OUTSIDERS, THEY ARE SOCIAL PARASITES, CARRION AND THEIR UNWANTED, PERSONAL OPINIONS DO NOT REPRESENT EITHER THE MAJORITY OF THE CITIZENS OF BALTIMORE OR THE BEST INTEREST OF FREE TAXPAYING CITIZENS WHO LIVE IN THIS CITY AND HAVE A RIGHT TO PEACEFULLY PROTEST AND ASSEMBLE IN THE STREETS THEIR TAX DOLLARS PAY FOR!  IF THIS EVENT DID NOT MEAN RATINGS I SERIOUSLY DOUBT THAT THE MEDIA WOULD HAVE BOTHERED TO BE THERE AT ALL... ITS ALL ABOUT THE BENJAMIN'S WITH THE MASS MEDIA MAKE NO MISTAKE!  IF YOU LISTEN TO THEIR COMMENTARY IS SUPPORTS THE CONSERVATIVE VIEWS OF THEIR HIGH PRICED SPONSORS NOT THE POOR PEOPLE OF BALTIMORE.  AS A RESULT EVEN THE ODD AND UNCOMFORTABLE PRESENCE OF THE MASS MEDIA SEEMS TO BE YET ANOTHER FORM OF SOCIAL OPPRESSION BECAUSE THIS MEDIA IS NOT THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE IT OBSERVES LIKE A CRANKY VOYEUR IT IS THE VOICE OF A SPOILED, DISCONNECTED, ALMOST SUBURBAN COMMENTATOR THAT WILL UNDOUBTEDLY RETIRE TO THEIR PALATIAL CONDOMINIUM AS SOON AS THEIR AIR-TIME IS EXPENDED.  WHO ARE THESE ALIENS TO THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE THAT ARE SOMEHOW CHARGED WITH COMMENTATING THE EVOLUTION OF THE VERY HEART AND SOUL OF SOCIAL REALNESS?  THEY ARE CULTURAL ALIENS! THE LANGUAGE THEY SPEAK IS INCAPABLE OF CAPTURING THE STRUGGLE AND SOULFUL PATIENCE OF THESE REAL HUMAN BEINGS...

AT THIS POINT IT SHOULD BE CRYSTAL CLEAR TO EVERYONE INCLUDING THE MEDIA, WHOEVER THEY ARE, THAT THE CITIZENS OF BALTIMORE DO NOT TRUST THE POLICE AND WITH GOOD REASON TOO.  SO IT IS A DOUBLE SLAP IN THE FACE FOR PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATORS TO BE BULLIED INTO ABANDONING THEIR PROTEST BY THE VERY ENTITY THAT REPRESENTS THE NUMBERLESS MURDERS OF BLACK MEN IN THEIR CONSCIOUSNESS... THIS IS THE REASON WHY EVERY BLACK AMERICAN SHOULD REFUSE TO EXPOSE THEMSELVES TO OR SUPPORT MASS MEDIA THAT DOES NOT SUPPORT THEIR INTERESTS.

WHAT I SEE ARE BOY SCOUT REPORTERS COMPLETELY OUT OF THEIR ELEMENT MAKING BANKRUPT JUDGMENTS THEY DO NOT HAVE THE DEVELOPMENTAL, EXPERIENTIAL MATURITY TO TAKE BACK AND APOLOGIZE FOR.  ARROGANCE LIKE IGNORANCE HAS NEVER BEEN KNOWN FOR ITS CAPACITY FOR REMORSE.  BALTIMORE IN THE SPRING OF 2015 IS NOT A BOY SCOUT JAMBOREE IT IS A ONE TIME CHANCE FOR DISENFRANCHISED PEOPLE WHO WOULD OTHERWISE BE LOCKED OUT OF THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE MEDIA,  A MEDIA THAT ANY OTHER TIME IS MORE OBSESSED WITH A FIVE OR TEN SECOND INTERSTICE DURING  WHICH  A POP STARS BOOB FALLS OUT OF HER BRA THAN THE MURDER OF NAMELESS POOR BLACK MEN ON OUR INNER CITY STREETS.  THE SACRED MEDIA SCALES OF JUSTICE BALANCE A BOOB ON ONE SIDE AND A DEAD BLACK MAN ON THE OTHER SUSPENDING THE CORPSE IN A DEAD PENDULUM SWING.

THE FACT THAT THE MEDIA WHICH IS SUPPOSED TO REPRESENT THE  FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IN A DEMOCRATIC NATION WOULD ACTUALLY SUPPORT A CURFEW THAT VIOLATES THOSE RIGHTS  PROFOUNDLY TROUBLES ME!  HAS ANYONE QUESTIONED THIS? HAVE YOU QUESTIONED THIS?

IT CAN BE ARGUED WHETHER OR NOT THE DEMONSTRATION IN BALTIMORE IS PEACEFUL OR NOT.  YES, IT IS TRULY A MIXED BAG SO WE HAVE TO DECIDE WHICH IS MOST IMPORTANT THE RIGHT TO PEACEFULLY DEMONSTRATE OR THE BLANKET SUPPRESSION OF ALL DEMONSTRATION BECAUSE SOME PROTESTERS HAVE EXCEEDED THE LIMITATIONS OF PEACEFUL CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE.  CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE IS ALWAYS AN UNBALANCED EQUATION BECAUSE ONE GROUP OF PEOPLE IS FORCED TO SUPPRESS THEIR AGGRESSION BY RE-CHANNELING IT WHILE OTHERS ARE ALLOWED TO CONTINUE THEIR PATH OF AGGRESSION UNTIL  THEY ARE SUBDUED BY THE SHEER TENACITY OF THE PEACEFUL AND VIOLATED FACTION.

SO LET US SEGREGATE THE TWO GENRES OF DEMONSTRATORS BETWEEN THE VIOLENT AND NONVIOLENT.  BUT LET US NOT FORGET THE REASON WHY WE ARE FORCED TO MAKE THIS DISTINCTION IN THE FIRST PLACE.  VIOLENCE IS ALMOST NEVER JUSTIFIED BUT IT IS THE REASON WHY WE ARE ALL IN THIS PLACE TO BEGIN WITH AND LET US REMEMBER AND QUALIFY FROM WHENCE THE VIOLENCE CAME.  THE VIOLENT MURDER COMMITTED BY THE POLICE WAS THE CATALYST OF THIS PROTEST, PEACEFUL AND VIOLENT AND THAT IS NEVER GOING TO CHANGE! IT IS WHY WE ARE ALL HERE TODAY LOOKING AT THIS HERETOFORE INVISIBLE COMMUNITY IN BALTIMORE IN THE SPRING OF 2015.

I THINK THAT IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS PLAYING OUT IN BALTIMORE YOU HAVE TO BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND OPPRESSION.  I THINK THAT IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS PLAYING OUT IN THE STREETS OF BALTIMORE YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND ANGER, IGNORANCE, DEPRIVATION, HUNGER, POVERTY, FRUSTRATION, HOPELESSNESS, INSECURITY...

IN ORDER FOR HUMAN BEINGS WHO HAVE OTHERWISE SO TOTALLY ACCEPTED IMPOVERISHMENT, IGNORANCE AND INVISIBILITY TO OPENLY THROW BOULDERS AT OFFICERS HOLDING FIREARMS SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARILY EVIL MUST ROUSE THEM, THEY HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT AN UNFULFILLED LIFE AND SUDDENLY THEY FIND MEANING, PURPOSE, VIBRANCY IN A CAUSE HOWEVER MISGUIDED... IT IS AN IMPORTANT PHENOMENON THAT WE HAD ALL BETTER TAKE SERIOUSLY BECAUSE WHETHER OR NOT IT MEASURES UP TO OUR NEAT, PROTECTED, MIDDLE CLASS VALUES REALLY DOES NOT MATTER AT ALL.  THERE ARE MORE OF THEM THAN THERE ARE OF US, WE ARE OUTNUMBERED BY THE POOR.  RATHER THAN MAKING BOURGEOIS JUDGMENTS OF THEIR MISDIRECTED ANGER WE HAD BETTER TRY TO RELATE AND UNDERSTAND IT!  WE HAD BETTER TRY TO INCORPORATE ITS INTENSITY AND TENACITY INTO OUR OWN VERSION OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE...

AMERICANS PLEASE WAKE UP!  WAKE UP!

WRITTEN BY BIGDADDY BLUES