Liberals keep making the same mistakes
Recently, on a warm evening in Point Breeze, I was taking my 11 p.m. smoke break when sirens and flashing lights punctuated the relative quiet of the city.
It was nothing out of the ordinary. Almost nightly, I hear gunshots followed by the predictable echo of police sirens near the place where I work. You’ll have that when your company is tucked away between the Wilkinsburg and Homewood sections of Pittsburgh.
For the most part, the speedy parade of squad cars and paddy wagons are headed North on Braddock Avenue going under the railroad trestle that could be considered “the Gates of Homewood.” I often wonder why the graffiti artists haven’t taken the line: “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here,” and painted it on that trestle.
Each and every time the speedy parade makes its nightly run into Homewood, I hope that the families of my friends from work: who live there, haven’t become victims in this commonplace occurrence. For the record, these friends aren’t white.
It’s a damned shame that my friends have to live like that. They’re totally stressed out and mega-doses of Lisinopril (a blood pressure medication) “ain’t enough.” How can you treat hypertension in a world where hypertension is the norm?
However, on that recent Wednesday evening, the screaming parade wasn’t headed into Homewood. We counted seven ambulances and a phalanx of squad cars headed east on Penn Avenue, going through Wilkinsburg and toward an address a couple blocks away, off of Penn/Ardmore Boulevard from the WTAE television studios. Something was hitting the fan again.
Surely we agree that everything is relative, but really, there’s no comparison between here and there. Sometimes, on my way to work, to avoid traffic I’d drive on South Street instead of Penn Avenue, going through a neighborhood. I was broken of that habit when I was stopped at a red light and gunfire broke out. Needless to say, I didn’t wait for the light to change. We don’t know how good we have it, all things considered.
A lot of times, some of us don’t have a clue what we’re talking (or writing) about. In Ms. Vozel’s case, she never has a clue! She spews her rhetoric; devoid of pragmatism, and might sound politically correct, even though she’s so absolutely wrong. Mr. Nicholson recently “checked” her about her racism toward white people and I have to give him an “atta boy.”
She’s always singing that same song about how black lives matter, but the truth is that they don’t seem to matter to a lot of black people. Statistics be damned, I see evidence of this every day. If you look, you’ll see it too. Ms. Vozel is so wrong she even preaches to the wrong target audience. She should take a good hard look at “the hood” then think about what she says, or “shut up.”
Ah, but liberals are famous for their false narratives. It’s one thing to make a mistake, but another to be constantly mistaken. When you realize how wrong she is now, just wait for her next piece; she’ll manage to be even more wrong just as surely as the sun rises in the east.
That “ambush” in Wilkinsburg that already claimed six lives proves without a doubt that those black lives didn’t matter to their black murderers. What could the four women and the unborn baby have done to deserve that? Collateral damage is usually innocent, but in this case, it’s damaged beyond repair.
Shelley Duffy of KDKA radio,reported that the Facebook postings of the guy that was murdered (Jerry Shelton) contained photos of him holding a huge wad of cash and marijuana. Obviously that was a fatal mistake and you have to wonder “what was he thinking?” Unfortunately, he won’t be thinking anymore.
You realize that if marijuana was decriminalized, those people would still be alive. I can’t imagine some “turf war” erupting between state employees from the Connellsville liquor store and the ones in Uniontown. Can you? Some of us desire to legislate morality regardless of the cost in human suffering that the self-righteous inadvertently cause. Is failing to impose abstinence really worth it? If it is, then you really have “issues.”
Marijuana doesn’t cause the violence, its prohibition does. Surely we can all agree that the effect of “pot” is mellowness, according to what I read. The statute of limitations has long since expired, but I ain’t “coppin’ to nothin’.” The effect of greed never is. Capitalism is one thing, but maintaining a phony industry that produces nothing (but tragedy) is another.
Some of us attempt to impose our values from the relative safety of the country on those stuck in the middle of a battlefield. Here it’s easier to bust some kid for possession of drug paraphernalia than it is to prevent ambushes like the one in Wilkinsburg. Besides, the police usually arrive on the scene after the fact. It’s impossible to be everyplace all of the time.
Come on now, “don’t you get it?” If you keep reading the lame rhetoric of liberals with an obvious racism toward white people (a’la Ms. Vozel) you never will. The self-hate (yet she claims to be a white American) she demonstrates is nonsensical. She doesn’t spew stupidity, she spews insanity.
When I read her columns, I remember when I was young and liberal. I smile when I recall my errors in judgment, then think about something that Hermann G枚ering (of all people) said: “As I was, you are. As I am, you will be.”
Sadly I realize: she will never be as I am, because I’ve never been as wrong as she is.
John Lucas is a resident of Vanderbilt.