What’s Wrong with McKinney TX is What’s Wrong with America.

All across the USA, people have been pointing judgemental fingers at McKinney, Texas: pointing at the town’s racism, pointing at the town’s homophobia, and pointing at the town’s police misconduct. All such fingers implying a certain superiority on the locale of those doing the pointing.

And those assumptions of superiority are, of course, misguided at best and lies at worst. Let’s take a few of McKinney’s recent “sins” and see how our states, cities, and neighborhoods stand up in comparison, shall we? Oh yes, yes we shall:

Homophobia: Kids who wore t-shirts supporting a bullied friend were harassed, publicly shamed, and otherwise penalized for having the words “Gay OK” on their shirts. The bullies were not, and have not, been punished. Think your town’s schools administrators are better? Probably not.

Racism: White people caused the recent dustup at that pool party, and let’s not pretend otherwise, OK? The white 911 caller was a racist (and has a criminal record), and the white woman who started the pool party fight is an obviously racist POS. Neither of them got so much as a glance from the idiot cop who pummeled an innocent black teen.
Think your town is better? Maybe it is, but probably not.

And let’s not even get STARTED on police misconduct, OK? Just check out the nationwide stats on skin-color-based differences in how law enforcement treats our citizens. No place is immune.

Yes, McKenney has racists, bigots, and crazy cops. So too does Ferguson. And, Staten Island. And, Cleveland. And so too does America as a whole: a wonderful, but deeply f***ed-up country. Until we realize that racism, homophobia, bigotry and other forms of hatred infest our nation from coast to coast and top to bottom, we’ll never get this place cleaned up.

Instead of pointing fingers at others, let’s put our digits to work. fixing our own problems.

Mr. Blunt and Cranky

Steubenville Rape Case Ain’t Over Yet

It’s on like donkey kong in Steubenville, where the Grand Jury investigation just completed Day One of its work. And insofar as one can tell, they are picking up rocks aplenty to find the slime beneath.

Investigators have searched public and private buildings, interviewed multiple individuals (like the useless “parents” who own the house in which Jane Doe was gang-raped), and generally scaring the Hell out of lots of people who deserve to be terrified. Here’s a snippet from the above link (we recommend you click and read):
“Investigators searched Steubenville High School and the local school board offices Thursday.
Investigators also searched Vestige Digital Investigations, a digital forensics storage company in Medina, in Northeast Ohio. The company’s connection to the case was unclear, and it denies it’s the subject of a criminal investigation.
The owners of a home where a photo was taken of the Weirton, W.Va., girl being carried by the two boys later convicted of raping her also have been interviewed by investigators.
DeWine says nothing is off the table for the grand jury, which he announced within hours of the guilty verdict March 17.”

Here’s hoping that the rest of those responsible for the horrific crimes committed in that town wind up doing time along with the smug little s***s who were rightfully convicted a while back. We’ll see what the Grand Jury comes up with.

At the very least, it’s more than has been done in Torrington and Nova Scotia.

Mr. Blunt and Cranky