Most of us woke up to the news this Sunday that Zimmerman was found not guilty. But we all know that he shot an boy... innocent or not, whatever. There's is a problem with the system here, no doubt. No system is perfect, otherwise we would all be happy gold fish living in a bowl.
People turn to the bible, to family, at this time... I'm turning to A Song of Ice and Fire, or even the Mahabharata, however the Game of Thrones is fresh in my mind.
Remember when Lord Eddard Stark was tried, though innocent, the hand of the king, with solid proof... he was still found guilty by the "King" and beheaded. Sure the system then was different, and the justice a bit barbaric. However those were the ways of men back then. Our children's children's children will look back a 100 years from now and find our system of law and justice barbaric, just as our seniors today see us killing our bodies with food packed with GMOs etc, killing our world by various other means, and our minds with endless use of technology... So on and so forth. Patterns keep repeating, and we never learn from our past.
Eddard Stark had proof of the late King's wishes, but the proof was conveniently dismissed, torn up by the Queen. Although he was loyal to the previous King, who he served as Hand to the King, he was found a traitor, although he had only been traitor to the king previous to who he had served. HE was not a traitor, but the Queen and the Kings own son were the actual traitors. Instead of serving a life sentence of taking the black, and working at the wall, he was beheaded by the "merciful" king (note the sarcasm). Is this justice? No, but it depends on who's perspective. Is this life? Yeah it is sadly.
In our eyes, this new king is absolutely horrid. But in his mother's eyes, in his own eyes, he is correct. It's his pride, arrogance, power, hate, sense of entitlement being a High Born Lord that blinds him, his mother. Maybe there is the notion of survival, flight or fight, fear... its all human, and its one we at our point of evolution should overcome. I sometimes wonder how many people fear me for I live in suburban/ to rural Ohio, the "Midwest". I wonder do they fear me for I look different from them? Although I may believe the same things they do, talk the way they do... they won't see it for 1- We don't don our similarities as well as we wear our skin color 2- they will be blinded by fear/preconceptions/stereotypes OR 3- they may realize - "oh she's an Indian, my doctor is an Indian too she's safe". Ever since I was in Kindergarten I've dealt with some sort of racism, not terrifying, but still it's made an impact. In the eyes of a Caucasian/Anglo Saxon, what they think and see is right, they don't see it from the other POV. So in Zimmerman's eyes he was right in what he did... Trayvon is dead so we will never see things from his perspective; too often though we are stereotyped by the color of our skin, we may just look at pop culture, media, our OWN selves to know this. This is the world we live in: black shooting black is normal. Black shooting white is murder. White shooting black is self defense. White shooting white... they're on crack cocaine. Do we need to go into more colors? Yellow shooting Brown, Brown shooting Hispanic?
Funny - I'm brown on the outside, white on the inside (actually pink), spiritual in my heart, and sometimes I do stand up comedy as an Indian- American Teapublican! It is funny, but this entire post is not at all really. After living in rural America, one learns how life can be hilarious and scary when juxtaposing people of different cities, cultures, races, religions, ideologies, education, accents etc. What where the eff did the Game of Thrones connection go?
Back to "the law", or system, because it's not racism, its not the fact a young underage boy was shot, and killed, a lot of people are pointing out that "the prosecution could not prove beyond reasonable doubt (or whatever the eff) that this fool of a took was a guilty mo fo" (ok so it wasn't said like that but I digress and get carried away). Basically there was not enough proof only the words of the defendant, the killer, the hero...
What about the victims right to stand his ground? Did he not have the right after being stalked like a deer, followed by a tiger? The laws of this land / Florida can be so strange at times. Does a black boy not have right to stand his ground? Following this case only made me angry, because it was their words against a dead boys life. How many of us as kids have wanted to be tough, and bad ass? How many of us have slept through classes and said "we don't need no education!" How many of us have indulged in a little bit of pot smoking until we had better sense? How many of us have worn a hoody cause that was the only clothing around (also as a girl its nice cause then you don't really have to wear a bra :-P ). Proof or no proof, we can only dig up so much based on what HE said. Just like any part of ancient history - unless we were really there, during the Mahabharata, we don't know "beyond reasonable doubt" if Duryodhana was really that much of a jerk. So we have a system in place which work SOME of the time but not ALL of the time. A system that has immense, gaping loop holes. You shot a kid cause you thought he was a what? He took a swipe at you cause why? Maybe he thought you wanted to butt rape him or steel his skittles?
Law as we have studied is the law of the land, the people, and most of all belongs to those who have power. Call me jaded, but after watching Indian politics, American politics, how do we fool our selves with a democracy? What does it even mean? There are no more literal crowns, but it is a fact "crowns" metaphoric, or literal do queer things to the heads of men below it. We have put in place a law: a queer law that serves few, and suppresses many, however we believe that law gives everyone the freedom to become a king with a little bit of competition...
All in all, life isn't fair, it's just not fair: so teach your children that from the start. There are so many people on the planet that you probably will end up dead, hungry or obese. Eddard Stark DIED, and Joffrey the ruthless rules, so does his mother, and his father. They are liars, murderers, and thieves, but Arya, Sansa, Robb, Bran and little Rickon just have to deal with it. This isn't the only example of injustice, but although one tries to be a good person, sometimes evil wins over (Sansa's Lady was killed cause Joffrey needed to see a wolf dead). Does that mean we quit being good? Nope... Do we give up? No. Although life isn't fair, sometimes we get what IS fair, and that's when we count our blessings. Is this the ultimate verdict on the Trayvon Martin murder case? NO! If the law didn't get him, something else will get Zimmerman for sure... I hope it's the Gators or those Pythons. That would be a natural form of justice. But right now I will let it go, for the universe has a way of evening out these things.
Breathe...
PS: actually I realized Sansa being stripped and humiliated at Joffrey's command was kind of like a guy who is just angry attacking something that seemed like a threat. To Joff Robb was a threat so he took his anger out on Sansa: sweet and innocent Sansa. Because he could.
People turn to the bible, to family, at this time... I'm turning to A Song of Ice and Fire, or even the Mahabharata, however the Game of Thrones is fresh in my mind.
Remember when Lord Eddard Stark was tried, though innocent, the hand of the king, with solid proof... he was still found guilty by the "King" and beheaded. Sure the system then was different, and the justice a bit barbaric. However those were the ways of men back then. Our children's children's children will look back a 100 years from now and find our system of law and justice barbaric, just as our seniors today see us killing our bodies with food packed with GMOs etc, killing our world by various other means, and our minds with endless use of technology... So on and so forth. Patterns keep repeating, and we never learn from our past.
Eddard Stark had proof of the late King's wishes, but the proof was conveniently dismissed, torn up by the Queen. Although he was loyal to the previous King, who he served as Hand to the King, he was found a traitor, although he had only been traitor to the king previous to who he had served. HE was not a traitor, but the Queen and the Kings own son were the actual traitors. Instead of serving a life sentence of taking the black, and working at the wall, he was beheaded by the "merciful" king (note the sarcasm). Is this justice? No, but it depends on who's perspective. Is this life? Yeah it is sadly.
In our eyes, this new king is absolutely horrid. But in his mother's eyes, in his own eyes, he is correct. It's his pride, arrogance, power, hate, sense of entitlement being a High Born Lord that blinds him, his mother. Maybe there is the notion of survival, flight or fight, fear... its all human, and its one we at our point of evolution should overcome. I sometimes wonder how many people fear me for I live in suburban/ to rural Ohio, the "Midwest". I wonder do they fear me for I look different from them? Although I may believe the same things they do, talk the way they do... they won't see it for 1- We don't don our similarities as well as we wear our skin color 2- they will be blinded by fear/preconceptions/stereotypes OR 3- they may realize - "oh she's an Indian, my doctor is an Indian too she's safe". Ever since I was in Kindergarten I've dealt with some sort of racism, not terrifying, but still it's made an impact. In the eyes of a Caucasian/Anglo Saxon, what they think and see is right, they don't see it from the other POV. So in Zimmerman's eyes he was right in what he did... Trayvon is dead so we will never see things from his perspective; too often though we are stereotyped by the color of our skin, we may just look at pop culture, media, our OWN selves to know this. This is the world we live in: black shooting black is normal. Black shooting white is murder. White shooting black is self defense. White shooting white... they're on crack cocaine. Do we need to go into more colors? Yellow shooting Brown, Brown shooting Hispanic?
Funny - I'm brown on the outside, white on the inside (actually pink), spiritual in my heart, and sometimes I do stand up comedy as an Indian- American Teapublican! It is funny, but this entire post is not at all really. After living in rural America, one learns how life can be hilarious and scary when juxtaposing people of different cities, cultures, races, religions, ideologies, education, accents etc. What where the eff did the Game of Thrones connection go?
Back to "the law", or system, because it's not racism, its not the fact a young underage boy was shot, and killed, a lot of people are pointing out that "the prosecution could not prove beyond reasonable doubt (or whatever the eff) that this fool of a took was a guilty mo fo" (ok so it wasn't said like that but I digress and get carried away). Basically there was not enough proof only the words of the defendant, the killer, the hero...
What about the victims right to stand his ground? Did he not have the right after being stalked like a deer, followed by a tiger? The laws of this land / Florida can be so strange at times. Does a black boy not have right to stand his ground? Following this case only made me angry, because it was their words against a dead boys life. How many of us as kids have wanted to be tough, and bad ass? How many of us have slept through classes and said "we don't need no education!" How many of us have indulged in a little bit of pot smoking until we had better sense? How many of us have worn a hoody cause that was the only clothing around (also as a girl its nice cause then you don't really have to wear a bra :-P ). Proof or no proof, we can only dig up so much based on what HE said. Just like any part of ancient history - unless we were really there, during the Mahabharata, we don't know "beyond reasonable doubt" if Duryodhana was really that much of a jerk. So we have a system in place which work SOME of the time but not ALL of the time. A system that has immense, gaping loop holes. You shot a kid cause you thought he was a what? He took a swipe at you cause why? Maybe he thought you wanted to butt rape him or steel his skittles?
Law as we have studied is the law of the land, the people, and most of all belongs to those who have power. Call me jaded, but after watching Indian politics, American politics, how do we fool our selves with a democracy? What does it even mean? There are no more literal crowns, but it is a fact "crowns" metaphoric, or literal do queer things to the heads of men below it. We have put in place a law: a queer law that serves few, and suppresses many, however we believe that law gives everyone the freedom to become a king with a little bit of competition...
All in all, life isn't fair, it's just not fair: so teach your children that from the start. There are so many people on the planet that you probably will end up dead, hungry or obese. Eddard Stark DIED, and Joffrey the ruthless rules, so does his mother, and his father. They are liars, murderers, and thieves, but Arya, Sansa, Robb, Bran and little Rickon just have to deal with it. This isn't the only example of injustice, but although one tries to be a good person, sometimes evil wins over (Sansa's Lady was killed cause Joffrey needed to see a wolf dead). Does that mean we quit being good? Nope... Do we give up? No. Although life isn't fair, sometimes we get what IS fair, and that's when we count our blessings. Is this the ultimate verdict on the Trayvon Martin murder case? NO! If the law didn't get him, something else will get Zimmerman for sure... I hope it's the Gators or those Pythons. That would be a natural form of justice. But right now I will let it go, for the universe has a way of evening out these things.
Breathe...
PS: actually I realized Sansa being stripped and humiliated at Joffrey's command was kind of like a guy who is just angry attacking something that seemed like a threat. To Joff Robb was a threat so he took his anger out on Sansa: sweet and innocent Sansa. Because he could.
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| Eddard serving out justice at the Queens order by putting down Lady... all because of Joffrey |
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| Justice for Eddard |
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| Happier days for Sansa and Lady |
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