Things are going badly in Toledo
Riots broke out today in Toledo. Home of the Triple-A Mudhens, Toledo was once a thriving port where the river meets Lake Erie. A stop on Great Lakes/St. Lawrence Seaway. Toledo brought it frieght and sent out manufactured goods and steel. It is also where a shocking number of my family memebers where born, and some still live. But now Toledo kinda sucks. the economy blows, the idustrial base of the town is dwindling and nothing new moves in becuase, well, because it's Toledo. You should go to the airport there sometime...it's the saddest airport in America.
Today some Virgina Nazis head up and stage a rally at a city park--to protest balck gangs attacking white women. Being Nazis, they are both too racist and too stupid to realize that the problem is violent gangs and what cause them, not whether they attack white women or not, and we all know that they weren't really protesting the gang so much as the black. But that's Nazis for you. And Toledo being a diverse city, the African-American community decided to, you know, not allow this kid of ignorant-ass bullshit in their town. Any way, it all went out of control and there was violence.
Here's the thing. Say you're poor and black and live in Toledo, Ohio and the Nazis come to town. Well, you're already pretty well convinced that your state governemnt is corrupt and hates you, because it is and does (Ohio's pretty fucked up right now). And after Katrina, you think, a la Kanye West, that George W. Bush doesn't care about black people. Well, when the Nazis come to town, that makes you pretty mad and you get pretty pissed at the police protecting, protecting, these people. Goddamn Virginia Nazis. And you got nothing to look forward to in the immediate future. I mean you might have joined the army ten years ago, but fuck that now. So, yeah it gets a little out of hand. But at the end of the day isn't it the screwed up governement of Ohio and the United States that's a little out of hand? I mean, all you want is a job and no Nazis in your neighborhood, that's what America sort of is. But no, crap is going wrong left and right. So you get a little heated when these assholes come to a your town, which you didn't fuck up by the way, and act like it's your fault that some dumb ass kids may or may not be mugging old ladies--and not the fault of the city that's letting them march. Welcome to the alienation of the working class and the structure of a system that either discards that alienation or turns it against useful enemies. Good luck citizens of Toledo, a town close to my heart. Like the young man at the end of the news story says: "You...expect this not to happen?"
Today some Virgina Nazis head up and stage a rally at a city park--to protest balck gangs attacking white women. Being Nazis, they are both too racist and too stupid to realize that the problem is violent gangs and what cause them, not whether they attack white women or not, and we all know that they weren't really protesting the gang so much as the black. But that's Nazis for you. And Toledo being a diverse city, the African-American community decided to, you know, not allow this kid of ignorant-ass bullshit in their town. Any way, it all went out of control and there was violence.
Here's the thing. Say you're poor and black and live in Toledo, Ohio and the Nazis come to town. Well, you're already pretty well convinced that your state governemnt is corrupt and hates you, because it is and does (Ohio's pretty fucked up right now). And after Katrina, you think, a la Kanye West, that George W. Bush doesn't care about black people. Well, when the Nazis come to town, that makes you pretty mad and you get pretty pissed at the police protecting, protecting, these people. Goddamn Virginia Nazis. And you got nothing to look forward to in the immediate future. I mean you might have joined the army ten years ago, but fuck that now. So, yeah it gets a little out of hand. But at the end of the day isn't it the screwed up governement of Ohio and the United States that's a little out of hand? I mean, all you want is a job and no Nazis in your neighborhood, that's what America sort of is. But no, crap is going wrong left and right. So you get a little heated when these assholes come to a your town, which you didn't fuck up by the way, and act like it's your fault that some dumb ass kids may or may not be mugging old ladies--and not the fault of the city that's letting them march. Welcome to the alienation of the working class and the structure of a system that either discards that alienation or turns it against useful enemies. Good luck citizens of Toledo, a town close to my heart. Like the young man at the end of the news story says: "You...expect this not to happen?"
posted by justin | 2:27 PM
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