For Michael Jackson's Legacy Things Are Going To Get Worse

The Leaving Neverland documentary has caused a lot commotion to say the least.  The documentary has mostly received negative reviews, from a general public that still loves Michael Jackson.  Wade Robson, and James Safechuck have received much backlash.  A popular opinion from Jackson fans is that they lied for the money, but seems to be a strange way to try to get some cash.  Even if they would've won and gotten millions from Jackson's estate (which they didn't), their reputations are in shambles.  Who knows what backlash they receive from Jackson's fans, but you have to think it's really bad.  With all the video they have of themselves hanging out with Michael Jackson there had to have been an easier way to cash in.  Robson, and Safechuck are not icons.  That is what Michael Jackson is, and it will be his image that will take the biggest hit over time.  I believe Michael Jackson molested some boys, but even for some who don't believe, or who aren't sure, it might be easier to just avoid the controversy.

We are already starting to see it.  His music has been removed from some streaming services.  An episode of the Simpsons from 1991 that features Jackson's voice, has been pulled.  For Michael Jackson's fans, things are going to get worse before they start to get better. I don't expect these accusations to just go by the wayside, and be forgotten about a few months later.  Now Michael Jackson is dead, so, you can't get justice on a dead man, but I want to compare Jackson's situation to others like Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby, and R. Kelly.  While the Cosby thing got big before the Metoo era, it follows a similar course.  When it rains it pours.  While there have been some instances of people being accused of one case of sexually inappropriate behavior, when we've had someone facing a number of accusation of sex crimes, it doesn't stop at a few here or there.  In the case of Cosby, comedian Hannibal Burress called Cosby a rapist in October of 2014.  Cosby already had allegations against him before that, but it was Barbara's Bowman's article from November 2014, that really inspired more women to come forward.  Before the end of November a number of other women had come forward with their own allegations against Cosby.  In fact a number of them came out within a week of Bowman's article.  The Weinstein thing started out with stories of sexual misconduct, and then went on to include charges of rape, as well as other charges of sexual misconduct.  Not long after Surviving R. Kelly, the singer was accused of sexually abusing four girls.  Then lawyer Michael Avenatti said he had a sex tape of R. Kelly with a 14 year old. Leaving Neverland is the type of powerful documentary that could inspire more people to come forward with claims against Jackson.  The attention around this document is going to lead to more details being exposed.

We'll have to see what happens.  What will happened the immediate future.  Will the negative news on Jackson calm down soon, or will this be the tip of the iceberg.

MAGA Hat Teens. The Regressives Get It Wrong Again

By now we all know the story.  The original video seemed to show kids from Covington Catholic High School mocking a Native American man, Nathan Phillips, or at least that's what most believed.  To add to it Phillips was said to be a Vietnam Vet (The Washington Post said he was but got it wrong).  I myself was skeptical even before seeing more video from the event.  I mean the kids appeared to be having fun, and while the one kid who was standing in front of Phillips had a smirk on his face, he wasn't acting violent, and wasn't mocking him.  Still when it comes to white males it is easy for regressives to be tricked, even if it's just teenagers.  They were demonized throughout social media, and school said that they would investigate.

Turns out what happened was more of hoax, based on lies, and deception.  Like a clever magic trick, it wasn't about what was shown as much as it was about what wasn't shown.  Yesterday I saw a link to this article
 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/01/interview-parents-and-students-from-covington-catholic-demand-apology-from-diocese/?fbclid=IwAR0ciqZUDeEM_4k2F7CY8D_FElu3cPMb5_XYl8WZSyAX4zFryS920FIR0KU

Boy did it give a different perspective.  Phillips walked towards the boys.  There was one guy telling the boys to go back to Europe.  I already felt that people had overreacted, but this took things to another level, but wasn't anything compared to the video that I watched last night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVtYPRAjYY8

Black Hebrew Israelites were involved.  I found out later that the video was first recorded on facebook live. They were saying a bunch of racist shit about white people.  In fact even before they turned their attention to the boys, they said plenty bad things to Native Americans.  Why would these Israelites be interested in this Indigenous Peoples March?  They think that Native Americans are also Israelites, and they were out there to teach their religion to these Indigenous people, and did so in their usual disrespectful manner.  When they turned their attention to the Covington students things got nasty quick.  They called them crackers, talked about how America would be destroyed, said they were incest babies.  The video speaks for itself.  The boy responded by doing their school chant.  It was interesting because they didn't return the Israelites hate with hate of their own.  They were whooping it up, and acting like they were having a good ole time, and this annoyed the shit out of the Israelites. Then came Phillips, in the supposed peacekeeper role, which I will get to later.

Looking at this video really puts things into perspective.  It has gone the point where mainstream liberal news outlets are going out of their way to tell the real story, after first falling for the portrayal of the boys as being racist. Of course some other people further on the left wouldn't have it.  It was almost like a witch hunt on the boys.  One of the biggest reaches was a picture of Covington students yelling at a black basketball player, in an image where a couple of them are painted black, which some thought of as blackface.  Problem number one is that the game was one of the "blackout" games that the school has.  Students dressed in black, and some painted themselves black, but it clearly wasn't racist, and was just those students keeping up with the blackout theme.  Another thing is that the photo was from 2012, when the boys involved in the incident a couple days ago wouldn't have been in high school.  You wouldn't be a good far leftist if you just admitted that you got it wrong.

Then there is Phillips.  If he was being peacekeeper then why would he walk up to a group of students that weren't the cause of the problems, and even if he had it confused, he had to have heard some of the things that the Israelites were saying, yet when interviewed by CNN he gave an inaccurate account of what happened.  He talked about the boys surrounding him, when he walked right towards them.  He said that Nick Sandmann blocked his path, when the fact is he walked to the middle of the group of boys.  If wanted to get to the Washington Monument he could've walked to the side of the group. He also didn't mention the Israelites in the CNN interview that I saw.  When Phillips and his group approached you can hear one of the Israelites say "Here come Gad" more than once. I don't' know what Israelite sect these guys were from, but the different sects, whose 12 tribe breakdowns I have seen, list GAD as being North American Indians.  He even refers to Phillips as "our elder". It seems that Phillips may have had some affinity toward the Israelites, because he let them, the main bad guys in the scenario, off the hook.  I would like to know more about Phillips, and I think there are some questions he needs to answer.  What are his feelings on the Black Hebrew Israelites, and why didn't he confront them?  Then again Phillips has stood by his false statements, so being honest about it is just going to further expose him as a liar.

Cyntoia Brown 51 More Years

When it comes to the story of Cyntoia Brown the myth seems to be more powerful than the reality.  I first found out about her due to some meme that was circulating.

https://www.newsweek.com/cyntoia-brown-laughed-killing-man-threatened-shoot-720363

   There was a strong movement to free Brown, but there were several facts that they seem to have missed out on.  The story that Brown's supporters give doesn't pass the smell test.  It just seems off.  It seems like one of those stories where there has to be more to it, and in her case there is plenty more to it.  

Let's get to the big thing, the shooting.  She killed John Allen.  Allen was a 43 year old john, and Brown was 16, (she lied to him about her age). She claims that she shot him in self defense, but evidence suggest that she shot him in the back of the head while he was sleeping.  She also stole his car, 172 dollars, and several guns.  The prosecution claimed that the motive for the shooting was robbery.  Outside of what she stole after the killing, there is also the fact that she shot him with a gun that she brought into his home.  When she was interviewed after the murder she lied to police about her name and age.  She gave a birthdate that would've made her 19.

Another point is dispute is why was she a prostitute.  Was she forced into it as she claims, or did she chose to be one.  She had a 24 year old boyfriend nicknamed Kut-Throat (real name Garion McGlothen), that some believe forced her into prostitution. From what I read though, the two of them were close.  Brown also had a history of drug use, and a prior criminal history.   

The Cyntoia Brown story fits the SJW narrative in so many ways.  She was a 16 year old biracial girl, her victim was white, and the story got big not long after Brock Turner got just three years for sexual assault.  It seemed like one of those perfect comparison stories to show just how racist the system is.  So many of them just ran along with it.  There is a pattern of them running with stories, and getting shit wrong.  The narrative is what they love.  The problem is when you get past that and to the facts, it's doesn't paint Brown as some innocent victim who fought back. 

https://cases.justia.com/tennessee/court-of-criminal-appeals/BrownCyntoiaDeniseOPN.pdf?ts=1396144260

https://www.newsweek.com/cyntoia-brown-heres-why-teen-was-sentenced-life-after-claiming-she-was-sex-718766

FBI Murder Stats For 2017

Another year, another FBI crime report.  The FBI recently released their crime data for 2017.   I wantrd look up the murder statistics, and see how much they are similar to those of previous years.  I previously did blogs on the 2015, and 2016 data.  

When it comes to murders in which the race of the offender was known 6,444 of those offenders were black, and 5,125 were white.  So once again there were more black murderers than white despite the fact that there are 5-6 times as many white people in the country as their are black people.  When adding in the 314 in the Others category, blacks made up 54.2 percent of murderers, which is right in line with data from previous years.  So we can assume that 13% of the population was responsible for 54% of the murders.  Also if you go by ethnicity Hispanics made up 19.2% of offenders, which would mean there were overrepresented, but not nearly as bad as black people.  

Looking at single victim/single offender data, if we don't count those instances in which the race of the offender was unknown, 81.8% of whites murdered were murdered by other whites, and 90.3% of blacks murdered were murdered by other blacks.  This data matches up with what I found from the two previous years.  Another interesting tidbit from this data is that there were 576 cases of a white victim with a black offender, and only 264 the other way around.  Despite being outnumbered heavily by whites, blacks still managed to kill whites more, if we go by the single victim/single offender numbers.   The ratio is 2.18/1, and like the other data, it is right in line with what I saw in the previous years.  That doesn't quite fit the BLM narrative, but this is consistent.  That's a big problem.  The numbers aren't just some fluke, it displays a consistent pattern of much higher murder rates among black people.  Despite the narrative put out there by the mainstream that constantly show black people as being the victims of whites, the data does not back that up.  It hasn't backed that up for any year for which I've seen the stats from.  There are similar problems with other violent crime as well.

Murder rate increased slightly in 2017 from 5.3 per 100,000 to 5.4.  It's the third consecutive year of an increase in the murder rate, but this was the smallest increase in that span.

Links

Offenders Data

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2017/crime-in-the-u.s.-2017/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-3.xls

Single Victim/Single Offender
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2017/crime-in-the-u.s.-2017/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-6.xls

The Ali/Inoki Farce

It was June 25, 1976 in the United States, and June 26 in Tokyo when Muhammad Ali fought Antonio Inoki for 15 rounds in a boring bout.  Considering that Inoki was a professional wrestler you would think that people would have figured out that it was fake.  That has not been the case, as 42 years later the bout is still talked about as if it were the real deal.  

First let's deal with the supposed blood clots that Ali received.  I just got a CompuBox's book on Ali, and while it's a great book, it seems like they believe that Ali really did suffer blood clots.  It has been told so many times that Ali suffered blood clots.  Ferdie Pacheco talked about it a whole lot. It has even been suggested that Ali's legs were never the same after the blood clots.  Through all of those years what they didn't know about was the internet, and how it was going to make information readily available.  Cyberboxigzone.com, has, on Ali's record, the match with Inoki, and then him participating in two exhibition bouts in Seoul Korea two days after the fight.  This article here https://www.stripes.com/news/ali-mixes-it-up-with-gis-in-korea-1.48212 show an article from the Associated Press that shows that Ali had the exhibition, and other activities in Seoul happening the day after. The confusion could comes from the difference between what date the Inoki fight happened in terms of U.S. time, and the date it was in Japan.  Ali had a busy day in Seoul.  He participated in a parade, then he visited U.S. soldiers stationed there, and it was there that he boxed those short exhibition bouts, and watched a martial arts demonstration.  This is pretty good activity for a guy who suffered blood clots the day before.  The article also talks about Ali's other activities while on South Korea.  

Ali's opponent in that match, Antonio Inoki, seems to me to have been obsessed with convincing even skeptics that the wrestling he took part in was real.  He went as far as to stage several exhibition matches against fighters from other disciplines.  Some consider these Mixed Martial Arts matches.  All indications that I have gotten are that those bouts were as fake as his wrestling matches.  I watched his match with Willie Williams, and it certainly wasn't real.  The thing is that people tend to accept those bouts as fake.  It's the Ali one that was somehow the real one.  This is the same Inoki that took part in a work with the Great Antonio that still to this day has people convinced it was a shoot.  Grantland even an article about it.  It was some small series of articles they had about when wrestling gets real.  The basic story is that Inoki thought that the Great Antonio was being stiff with him so he preceded to stop acting, and really beat the shit out of him.  There are several problems with this though.  The Great Antonio doesn't behave like a guy who is really being beaten up.  He doesn't fight back, he doesn't bail out of the ring.  He just stays there are lets Inoki keep kicking him.  While lying on the mat he at times put his hand up to his forehead, and then removes it in time for Inoki to kick him again.  Then in what should be the clincher, after he starts bleeding he is quickly shown on camera dropping what appears to be a blade outside of the ring.  The blood came from him blading himself on the forehead, and not from those kicks. 

Now back to Ali vs Inoki.  The bout is boring as fuck.  Inoki lays on his back throwing kicks, and Ali for the most part does nothing but taunt him.  I haven't watched all 15 rounds, but it's been said that Ali threw 6 punches.  Why would the boxer throw just 6 punches.  There were plenty times when Inoki was standing up, and Ali wouldn't even throw a jab at him.  Inoki's kicks are thrown with less force than modern WWE wrestlers throw their martial arts style kicks.  

Hulk Hogan Reinstated in WWE Hall Fame, And Their Is Plenty Backlash

Looks like Hulk Hogan in back in the good graces of the WWE, and though he hasn't signed a contract, they've slowly started to recognize him again.  Backstage at their last PPV, Backlash, he gave an apology backstage, and he was reinstated into the WWE Hall of Fame.  The drama started when audio was released of Hogan racist things.  The video was released in 2015, and the sex tape that it was part of was made in 2006.  Now what Hogan said was bad, but this was a private conversation.  Who knows the things that people say in private.  I can understand the firing of Hogan, but I think they took it too far.  There was no need to act as if the biggest star you ever had never existed.  There was no need to remove him from their Hall of Fame.  There are plenty people in there who have said, and done worse.  But we are in the era of social justice, and I sometimes think of this as the social justice era of the WWE. Now I don't watch the current wrestling product constantly, but I check on it from time to time, and the change within the company is pretty obvious.  The women's revolution is perhaps the biggest part of the change.  Women's wrestlers have been treated almost as the equals of their male counterparts, despite the fact that they aren't are strong, athletic, menacing, and they also don't draw as well.    Black people are placed very highly on the SJW pedestal, and by Hogan saying what he said, you knew the reaction was going to be swift.  The Ultimate Warrior said much worse things about gay people, and said them in public, and when asked about them, he defended what he said.  While he faced backlash it was nowhere near what Hogan faced.  Warrior was out of the fold with the WWE for a long time, but his anti gay rhetoric wasn't the reason.  That was about a personal beef between him and Vince McMahon.  

Now keep in mind that Hogan hasn't resigned with the WWE, and he hasn't made any on screen return to the company.  He simply gave an apology backstage, and was reinstated into the Hall of Fame.  These were baby steps. Yet that has offended quite a few people that don't think that he has done enough to show he has changed.  Keep in mind that this is the biggest star in WWE, and probably wrestling history, and it took 3 years for them to reinstate him into their Hall of Fame, and almost as long for them to become comfortable acknowledging him. This is all for something he said in private 12 years ago. If anything this should show how much the company is willing to bend over backwards to not offend black people.  There are black celebrities that routinely say worse things about white people and face very little backlash.  Yet some people act as if the punishment he received was enough.  How far do they want WWE to go?  

NBA Finals Preview

It's the same old song.  Cleveland vs Golden State for the fourth consecutive season, and while it does get tired seeing the same teams in the Finals year after year, these team have earned it, but this isn't two evenly matched teams.  Don't let the Warriors' 58-24 regular season record fool you, they had injury problems during the season.  Kevin Durant missed 14 games, Draymond Green missed 12, Klay Thompson missed 9, and worst of all, Steph Curry missed 31. In the postseason they had two easy wins in 5 games series during the first two rounds, before being pushed to 7 by Houston.  While Chris Paul was injured late in Houston's game 5 win, Golden State was the better team, as they outscored the Rockets by 63 points over the 7 game series.  They look really good going into the Finals.  The same can't be the said for Cleveland who are not the same team without Kyrie Irving.  During the previous 3 seasons Cleveland has been able to turn on the switch in the playoffs, and dominate the weak Eastern Conference, but that wasn't the case this year.  In the first round they won a 7 game series over Indiana in which they got outscored by 40 points.  While they looked impressive in sweeping Toronto in the second round, they had another tough 7 game series in the Conference Finals with an undermanned Boston team.  Lebron has carried more of the slack, without the type of second option he had when Kyrie was on the team.  They haven't shown that same ability to dominate the Eastern Conference competition, so what are they going to do against one of the most talented teams of all time.  It's hard to match up with Golden State.  They have, on their team, two of the top 5 players in the league in Kevin Durant, and Stephen Curry.  Durant, Curry, and Thompson give them 3 of the best 3 point shooters in the league, and Draymond Green is a really good all around player.

Prediction
I can't see Cleveland winning this one.  They wouldn't even have been able to match up with Houston if  Chris Paul were healthy.   Lebron can only do so much, and he barely got them past a weaker Boston team.  Cleveland's defense has been suspect throughout the season, but they got away with it as Boston's went cold from outside in game 7.  That isn't going to happen with Golden State, because the Warriors have too many weapons.  My prediction is Warriors in 5 games.  I think they could get the sweep, but since they haven't swept anyone in this year's playoffs, 5 games is a safer prediction.  As for Finals MVP, I think Kevin Durant will win it for the second consecutive year.  He was hot in the conference finals against Houston, though I wouldn't be surprised if Steph wins it.