I fucking hate this shit

I fucking well knew better than to keep following this inanely stupid story. From the first post I said I didn't want to, but I did it anyway like an idiot, to the point where yesterday I was trading emails with Mark Cuban trying to figure out how he can justify what he said. This article by Stephen A. Smith is about the dumbest thing yet. Blame the victims!!

Whether or not Howard is sensitive to whatever plights exist regarding African-Americans is not for me or anyone else to say definitively, because none of us are flies on his wall. In Howard's world, he may think he's being sensitive to black people and what plagues this community, and that may have been what he was aiming for in spewing his rhetoric.

But what Howard doesn't seem to get -- and he's joined in this by some members of the hip-hop and entertainment community, or anyone black willing to disseminate and perpetuate perspectives devoid of facts -- is the damage their moments of exasperating expression ultimately costs the very people they believe they're looking out for.

In other words, even if Howard feels oppressed, he isn't allowed to say it. Why? Because somehow saying it will hurt black people, presumably from a backlash of idiocy. And everyone is content to blame Howard for this, instead of blaming the people who do the oppressing. Why? Because our simplistic idiotic mindset is that America is good. No matter what you cannot question this. Anyone who says otherwise is bad, evil, probably a terrorist. Howard said America isn't good, so Howard is bad. This asinine mentality has infected just about everyone, at least any idiot that Walt Disney owned ESPN would hire. Anyone that implies America is racist is most certainly bad, to be silenced and denounced.

And so we have the ridiculous spectacle of condemnation of Josh Howard, a modern version of a lynching. I fucking hate every single person who participates in this bullshit, who justifies it in one way or another. These fuckers who write racist emails to Cuban telling him to "fire that nigger", Cuban who says that what Howard did was wrong, Abbott who calls it an abuse of free speech, Smith who tells Howard to shut the fuck up. I hate them all. Fuck, no, I don't hate them. I hate what they're doing and I hate the fucking system that has conditioned them to act this way, but they're victims of it too. I can't stand this shit.