Latest / Black Box Theory Podcast / Same Story, Different Name
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- Malcolm: No, I mean I said I'm I'm just tired of it becoming like a a race thing, man. ⁓ They made it about race first. No, I'm not gonna say first. A lot of people did, but like the guy's dad, I believe it was his father. ⁓ during the trial, he c he wasn't allowed to go to social media. Like no one was allowed to go on social media and share information. Soon as the trial ended, he made a video that went up. He started calling them watermelon felons and and all that like you made it about race, bro. Like it one guy killed your son, one individual, and you start talking about watermelon felons and and all this racist. Like, that's like it i if someone looks at any killer from any race or any person committing a crime and just throws it on the whole community. I mean, it it's ridiculous. And also in Texas, I was just looking at, you know, because Texas is staying your ground. And stay your ground, if people have seen in Florida and places that are standing ground, people who literally murder someone and not go to prison for it. Because it's like stand your ground. But the the stipulations are that so this is, mind you, this is ⁓ Gemini AI overview. So take this with a grain of salt. ⁓ but Under Texas Penal Code 9.31, you have no legal duty to retreat from a threat before using force, provided you meet three conditions, which being you have a legal right to be at the location, yes, you are not engaged in criminal activity, also correct, and you did not provoke the person. That's what they're getting him on. The provoke. They're saying he provoked. Is it a provocation by being under the tent? I'm not the judge. I'm not the jury. I don't know. Playing sports. You you mix up with a lot of teams. You mix with a lot of other teams and people. If that provokes you, I mean I guess what's the definition of being provoked then? Exactly. And that's that's, you know, I think it becomes a blur line, but I mean, I say I gotta say, man. mean, I feel sorry for that kid in this family. I feel sorry for both families, of course, like you know the family that lost their son. You know, you can't put a you can't tell somebody how to feel after they lose somebody and I think that, you know, they should be still have like treated with a level regardless of race, I think that they should still be treated with like a level of like respect and and sympathy, ⁓ and empathy as well as like as human beings. ⁓ But you know, I at and at the same time, like I also just you know, I'm always gonna feel how I feel about seeing like a young kid like that essentially about the rest of his life kinda s you know, determined like at a at a trial like that. It's just like I I like I said before, like, I really hate that things like this become a black and white thing and not a what was the crime thing. And I mean, I think it's just gonna be and it's it's s so sad to say it's just gonna be another one of those cases that just goes down history as like another kinda like piece of history, like piece piece of black history is like the, you know, just like something to learn from, right? It's just like it's sad to say that's he's his kind of like legacy's gonna be reduced to that. But ⁓ I don't know, man. It's really just unfortunate. And like I said, like we we we're not gonna go into detail about it, but like I said it's another similar kind of situation with the kid in South Carolina who was in the gas station. ⁓ Believe like that the owner of like Asian and they chased him out thinking he stole something he didn't, ran out the store, gunned him down, got out scot-free, you know, no charges, anything like that. So it's just like seeing this over and over again, bro, it's like a pattern. It's just like people who have like like like like you know, wool over their eyes, this think that it's just like, ⁓ well, you know, it's just a fair due process. And it's just like you have these juries of all, you know. white folks trying to, you know, understand like like what it feels to be in those shoes and and to be prejudiced and and and profile like that. And it's just like I don't know, bro. It's ⁓ it's unfortunate man. ⁓ I I hate seeing stories like this 'cause it's just like, you know, w when is history gonna stop repeating itself? ⁓ but yeah. Yeah. You know, ⁓ yeah. ⁓ tired of always having to take the high road. But somebody gotta be good because you know, we all get judged at the end of the day. Somebody gotta do the right thing. And exactly. Like Michael said, you know, prayers of both families. ⁓ no one should have died. This shouldn't even be a conversation. We shouldn't even be having this conversation right now. That incident should have been handled in court. peacefully, legally, correctly. We shouldn't even be talking about this other than, ⁓ we heard about, you know, a fatal stabbing. It's unfortunate trial going on. It was trial super quick too. ⁓ but things happen. I mean people people get killed every day, people die every day, and we don't always hear about it, but we hear about this, and it's unfortunate. So ⁓ prayers ⁓ to everyone involved and and please ⁓ you hateful ⁓ there's not even point in addressing you all out there, ⁓ for the people who don't go around and and ruin people's lives, ⁓ especially families of people who are victims and family who are people ⁓ being incarcerated. Props to you for just being a good enough human being to not go out your way to ruin somebody else's life.