Tag Archives: Rudolph Bush

State news

Would a blue-eyed blonde get this kind of treatment?

Rudolph Bush has posted a great blog for the Dallas Morning News.

I encourage you to read, then pass it on. Share it. Reflect on it.

http://dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/2015/06/a-shame-for-mckinney-and-for-all-of-us.html/?fb_action_ids=10206940919266011&fb_action_types=og.shares&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%5B884608638297404%5D&action_type_map=%5B%22og.shares%22%5D&action_ref_map=%5B%5D

He writes about the McKinney incident north of Dallas in which a police officer, Eric Casebolt, reacts rather aggressively while trying to break up a fight at a neighborhood pool party.

He wrestles a 14-year-old African-American girl to the ground. The girl is wearing a bikini. She’s crying out for her mother. He pulls his gun on other youngsters, none of whom was armed with anything other than a loud mouth. The incident got out of control.

Bush asks a most pertinent question in his blog. “But itā€™s impossible not to wonder how different a scene this would have been if these kids had been white instead of black. Would Casebolt have dared to drag a blond-haired, blue-eyed girl to the ground screaming ā€œON YOUR FACE!ā€ at a pool in an affluent suburb?

“If your answer is yes, let me know the next time that happens.”

Officer Casebolt has been suspended by the McKinney Police Department.

Bush asks further: “Itā€™s impossible not to wonder how we have failed to get the message from Baltimore and from so many other places. What is it going to take to avoid images like the ones that came from McKinney … ?”

Read his blog. It’s worth your time.

 

International news

Evil needs to be 'mocked'

Rudolph Bush’s blog for the Dallas Morning News is so spot on it’s nearly impossible to improve on it.

I won’t try here, except to add a point here and there.

http://dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/2015/01/evil-cannot-stand-to-be-mocked-so-lets-all-mock-it.html/

The assassins who opened fire on the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris embody evil in its purist form. Bush’s point is that evil hates being mocked and he encourages good people around the world to mock whenever and wherever possible.

I’m not inclined to “mock” evil. Instead, I prefer to call it what it is. “Evil” well could be the most descriptive four-letter word in the English language. So, let’s allow the word to stand on its own.

Bush writes: “If we think about the good people we know, theyā€™re often lighthearted. They might lead serious lives, but they are quick to pull themselves down, often with a joke at their own expense. They donā€™t burden others with their troubles. They donā€™t blather on about their accomplishments or beliefs. Their lives are quiet examples.

“Not so the evil. They canā€™t stop jabbering on about their own goodness, or the goodness of their beliefs, or the goodness of their possessions, or on and on. Itā€™s a loud and energetic effort. The evil are often very busy people, and they would have us know it.”

Charlie Hebdo had satirized the prophet Mohammed, enraging three Muslim cultists who opened fire on the magazine’s offices. One of them surrendered. Two others, brothers, are on the lam. French police essentially have locked down the nation and are dedicated to finding these individuals.

I’ll leave the mocking to others. But let’s all be sure that we don’t cower in the face of those who terrorize others.Ā The world’sĀ “lighthearted good people” cannot let them declare victory.