Who Will Say Her Name?

On April 12, 2018 in Shreveport, Louisiana, Johnathan Robinson intentionally shot and killed his ex-girlfriend Rannita Williams during a live stream on the Facebook social media platform. After the shooting, he engaged the police in an hour-long stand-off wherein he shot at officers, wounding one. After his arraignment, a judge set Robinson's bail at $2.5 million. Previously, Robinson had a felony conviction in 2015 stemming from a domestic assault for which he received probation and a suspended sentence.

The following is what people are NOT going to talk about.

Robinson received a slap on the wrist for a vicious, aggravated assault. Rather than simply saying the penal code is broken, slaps on the wrist are usually attributed to wealth, privilege, maleness or whiteness. However, Robinson is not wealthy, privileged or white and if it's one thing they love to do in Louisiana, it's put black men in prison. Therefore, it boggles the mind why he wasn't charged with domestic abuse aggravated assault which carries a max 5 year term and MIGHT have saved Rannita Williams life.

As not only a felon but also a domestic abuser, Johnathan Robinson was doubly prohibited from buying or owning a firearm. How did he get one? He discharged his firearm 6 times in Rannita Williams direction and prevented help from reaching her for over an hour. No background check, no magazine restriction, no gun-specific ban--no firearm regulation of any kind--would have saved her life from this attack. The only thing that might have given her a chance would have been shooting him before he shot her.

The police forgot the Golden Rule of policing in America: black suspects are NOT to be apprehended alive. Especially not black men that shoot at and/or wound officers. Given the disproportionate number of black males in prison, they forget this rule quite frequently, so it might just be an unremarkable fact.

After Robinson intentionally murdered a mother live for the entire world to see, engaged in a stand-off with cops, shot a cop and became combative in jail...a judge determined he should be granted bail. I doubt Robinson has the bond price and I doubt anyone is going to provide it for him, so he'll sit in jail where a danger to the community belongs. However, you might recall a certain shooting, by a man of a certain race, using a weapon of a certain kind, against people of a certain other race in Tennessee that has held American attention for the last two weeks. That alleged mass murderer was granted bail also, but the difference is there was community uproar and his bond was revoked--as it should have been. As is typical, when their isn't much to gain politically, those crying foul the loudest disappear.

Neither Donald Trump nor the NRA has spoken out against this act of senseless violence...and neither has Barack Obama, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Oprah Winfrey, Rihanna, Beyonce, Corey Booker or Angela Davis. And, nobody with a voice will. Nobody cares about the day-in-and-day-out violence that is a byproduct of social and moral decay. Nobody cares about suffering that isn't polarizing, and can't be monetized or politicized. Rannita will get no hashtag and no law, because, frankly, nobody cares about the Rannitas of this world. Nobody will say her name.

We Cannot Legislate Evil

File Under: Handwriting on the Wall

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You probably will not see this give much if any attention at all in the American Mainstream Media (MSM).  However, you need to bear witness to the simple truth that no matter what laws you pass, it is not the law, but rather it is failed governmental policies and the evil in humankind's hearts that leads to violence.

“When he was dead, they dragged him out into the road and left him there. It was strange, they didn’t run off, they just stood there as if they were waiting for the police. It must’ve taken about 20 minutes for the police to arrive, I think it must’ve been because they were waiting for armed police. [...] Lou Peluola, 53, arrived on the scene shortly after the incident when he saw one attacker standing over a body before the police arrived 20 minutes later. He said: "People were afraid asking: ‘where are the police?’ They took a long time to arrive. [...] I panicked, rang the police and ran away."

This happened not in Iraq, or Afghanistan, or some Sub-Saharan African war zone, but rather this happened in broad daylight, in the middle of one of the world's leading First World nations.  How many people could have put these two sociopaths down while the police took their time arriving?  What if they had targeted civilians?  Well Lou, when your right to defend yourself is violated by your government, that is all you can do - wait 20 minutes while the police find firearms - because, when you criminalize the right to bear arms, only criminals will bear arms.

What will the UK do now: ban cars? Ban kitchen knives? Ban Islam? Give each one of these murderers two consecutive "life" sentences?  Which one of those measures would have prevented this man's untimely, grizzly demise?  None of them.  Not one law could have saved this man because no law would have dissuaded these two monsters from committing this heinous act by any means necessary.  They did not care about having concealable firearms or how many people they could shoot before reloading - hell, they did not even care about escaping justice.  They were intent on venting their hatred and emotionally traumatizing as many people as they could in the process.

All those years ago, when the UK thought they were doing something about the violence in their country all they did was turn their backs on it, close their eyes, stick their fingers in their ears, and pretended it no longer existed.  Ignoring it, did not make it go away.  Evil exists.  It can take root inside anyone one of us; and, no amount of legislation will protects us from ourselves.

"We Didn't Start the Fire (Original)" by Bill Joel from Storm Front released 1989 on Sony

The Apple Has Fallen Far From The Tree

File Under:  Holy WTF People?!?!?

American was once a symbol of hope, justice, prosperity, and liberty.  What do we symbolize today?

Ok.  I am not going to even begin to politicize this post in the area of  firearms or the Second Amendment.  This is not even remotely close to being about that.  So this is the last time you will hear it brought up, in turn  please refrain from asinine rhetoric on guns.  What I do have to ask is: what the hell is wrong with California or America that "at least six" warm-blooded, One-nation-under-God-with-liberty-and-justice-for-all citizens of the greatest democratic republic in modern history could watch one man accost another, pull him out of his vehicle, drag him to the curb, and cold-blooded execute him in broad daylight right on main street?  I ask because that is exactly what happened today in Tustin, California.


When did Americans become that sheepish, that callous, that cold-hearted, and that weak.  When did we lose our lust for justice, morality, and honor and instead doing nothing became part of the "American Way?"  How is it that a grown man can slap someone else's crying toddler and, call that child a racial epithet on an airplane full of mothers and fathers, and still have the physical capacity to walk off that plane under his own power?  How can a a Good Samaritan save another citizen from an apparent mugging, only to be left bleeding to death by not only the would-be victim he saved, but numerous passers-by who gawked at his body and took pictures?  Once pride and courage burned in our American veins; now cowardice, apathy and lethargy rots us from the inside out like cancer.  We won't stand up to our banks, we won't stand up to the corporations, we won't stand up to the media, we won't stand up to our government, we won't stand up for the innocent, and we won't stand up for the poor/oppressed/downtrodden.  What is left of the America our forefathers spilled blood for in the Revolution and the Civil War?  How is it that as a people we have the intestinal fortitude to send unmanned planes all over the world blowing children and democracy to hell, but we cannot stand up to one murderer spreading actual terror right here in front of our eyes?  What great ideals are we spreading across the world behind our tanks and our drones and our bombs?


For goodness' sake, this will continue to happen until the American public stands up and says "enough, is enough."   And that is no symbolic, rhetorical gesture.  We are going on nearly a century of amplified violence, lawlessness, unethical behavior, and amorality all because at some point those who no longer wished to play by the rules realized they could do whatever the hell they wanted because nobody cared.  They knew people could be cowed, doped, fooled, or distracted into ignoring their reckless behavior as it devoured our once glorious republic like a plague.  The few who don't ignore it they are demonized, ostracized, disgraced, and silenced in whatever manner is most expedient because the masses still are not paying attention.  Stop letting the media tell you what to think and believe.  Stop kneeling at the feeding trough of the corporations begging for succor only to eat the scraps of your own blood, sweat, and tears.  Stop allowing the government to tell you what you will do and instead start telling the government what we will do.  Our grandparents and great grandparents are looking down upon the legacy they left, they gaze upon how we have ruined it, and they weep.  They weep for America, and their tears flood down upon us.  It is time for us to retrieve our collective heads from whatever dark, cavernous hole in which it is currently hidden, stand up like men and women of the strongest moral character, and be American again.

"What the Fuck Is Wrong With You" by Combichrist from What the Fuck Is Wrong With You People? released 2007 on Metropolis Records