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On Friday, November 19th, Kyle Rittenhouse, who stood accused of shooting three people, killing two at a BLM protest last year in Kenosha, Wisconsin, was found not guilty on every charge against him. I would say I'm shocked but then I'd be lying.
I was a kid when I first saw The Empire Strikes Back. Even in the days of the 1980s, the big revelation that Darth Vader was Luke Skywalker's father was no secret to me. I had a friend who blabbed much of the details of the trilogy. But the revelation was so wide spread that even at the time, it was so embedded in pop culture that it was more likely that far more people knew of the reveal than those that didn't. Still, hearing Darth Vader say "Luke, I am your father," was more of an eye raising moment for me than finding out that Rittenhouse would walk free after he murdered two people. Somehow, fiction manged, even in a spoiled form, to get more of a reaction out of me than reality. Thanos was right; reality is often disappointing.
Anyone that kept tabs on the Rittenhouse trial knew the outcome beforehand. The writing for this sucker was on the wall from the start. The judge that was supposed to be impartial, was anything but. He refused to let prosecution refer to the two people Rittenhouse killed, Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum, as "victims", because the term is a loaded word. Psst, hey judge, I'm not sure if you're aware, but killing people is a loaded subject. But he would allow them to be referred to as "rioters" and "looters", which was the first of numerous red flags when I started keeping an eye on what would be a crap show of a trial.
From the judge's odd tangets, racist remarks about Asian food, Rittenhouse squeezing out a single tear in what has to be one of the most pitiful armature theater performances I've ever seen, to lottery drawings, this trial was a freaking joke. The judge was clearly on Rittenhouse's side but I can only be annoyed at him so much. The prosecution was unbearably weak. Yeah, I get that the judged limited some of the ways in which Rittenhouse could be prosecuted, but they still did not use every tool available to them. I think a better prosecution team would have found a way around having their hands tied. Dang, why could the prosecution for this case not have been like the ones for Derek Chauvin trial?
But the verdict is what it is. And it is something I have long come to expect in this country.
Tamir Race was a 12 year old black boy, playing with a toy gun when police shot and killed him. The boy was no threat to them whatsoever yet police still murdered him. Meanwhile, Rittenhouse, who shows up to a protest with a real freaking gun, and kills two people, is able to walk right by the police without so much as even being tackled to the ground! Had Rittenhouse by Black, Muslim, or any other race except white, those cops would have killed him ten times.
Oh and Rittenhouse is totally not racist and he supports the BLM movement. He said as such on a Tucker Carlson special. Reminder, Rittenhouse went to a BLM protest across state lines with a real gun and killed two people. I know the kid is probably new to the whole "I'm not racist" bit but when you say that crap and Tuckums actually agrees with you, let alone has you on his show, you're only showing how racist you really are because Carlson is as racist as they get. Oh and Rittenhouse also posed in photos with the Proud Boys, but he's not racist. I'm mashing the X button to doubt like crazy right now.
The wrap up of the Rittenhouse trial is just another day in America. Or White America, same thing.
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