by Jack Lee
Thanks to the major news media, a tragedy is used to show their audiences there are blacks in Oakland that are hardcore racists! But, for the majority of the Oakland community that are not racists, it’s one more slap in the face and its a disgrace.
The racists we’re talking about are the ignorant and ill informed police protestors and yet this week the mainstream media was almost desperate for their “informed” opinions; they suddenly had a network news microphone thrust in their faces and did we get an earful.
This was all over the self defense shooting by police of an armed parolee (Lovell Mixon) after he started killing police officers to evade arrest.
The predictable comments went something like this, it was the cops fault, it was karma man, Lovell was a good guy, he was being harassed, the Oakland cops are always deliberately killing black men, Lovell was a victim of white oppression and police brutality, Lovell was a hero because he fought back, and so it went. It was ignorant and foolish trash talk by people who deserved zero airtime.
I ask you, what good did it do to give these racists a podium to degrade law enforcement and push the blame where it did not belong?
The mainstream media wasn’t informing anyone of anything new. We know these people exist and what they think…they dont belong in the headlines. It was insulting to the people of Oakland. All it did was inflamed passions and smeared the memory of the fallen police officers who died because of one man, Lovell Mixon. This is tabloid journalism at its lowest. They are exploiting violence and worse, they risk expanding that violence by playing one group off against another….its sick! No wonder we have so many problems in Oakland. there’s too many aggitators, from our sensation driven news media to very vocal race-based hate groups, and they are always stirring the pot, always looking for trouble and too often innocent people get hurt.
Note: Lovell Mixon was suspected of murder and child rape within the past 12 months, but both cases lacked sufficient evidence for a warrant. Prior to this he had a long history of violence and he was on parole. Three days ago during a traffic stop he killed two police officers, point blank range, in cold blood while they were writing a ticket and then he killed 2 more officers with an AK-47 after he barricaded himself in his apartmenta and they attempted entry. They were caught in what is known as the fatal funnel. Mixon went for head shots.