I was pleasantly surprised at Hollywood’s silence regarding the events in Ferguson. It looks like they’re learning, albeit slowly and with much pain and awkwardness. But progress is progress.
What I suspect happened is that after the public tongue lashings I gave my girlfriends after the Trayvon case, they had a sit down with each other and resolved to not force themselves into the middle of racially charged issues that they don’t have much information on and don’t fully understand. Good.
Well done, Tom. Well done, Hollywood.
As new information about Michael Brown continues to leak out, it’s becoming obvious that his death was yet another self-defense killing of a roided up career felon with a yard long rap sheet. You know, like so many of the others.
Hollywood’s exemplary silence on this issue stands in a nice, stark contrast to the familiar bleating of the “news” media, which is *still* playing up the preposterous fiction of a cop who just up and shot a random black guy because he didn’t like his skin color (!), which by the way, totally justifies why the black neighborhoods in that area went on a horrifying rampage that destroyed the livelihoods of thousands of innocents and caused tens of millions of dollars worth of damage. Because of RACISM!!!
Right.
And thus, the “mainstream” media lets nothing get in the way of its long slide into irrelevance.
After a thorough scan of twitters and tumblrs, I’m pleased to say that even super liberals like Katy Perry and Mary Elizabeth Winstead didn’t say anything regrettable. Excellent.
Proper leadership is tough, but if done right, can yield great rewards. Well done everyone, all around.