IS MARK CUBAN A RACIST? PROBABLY NOT!

Is Mark Cuban a racist? I do not believe he is.

     I use to constantly hear as a child that I should not judge others. All I did was judge others, at least I thought. What about the kid who picked buggers from his nose, or the teachers pet, or the bully spitting wet balls and the nerds head? What was I to think nothing?

     I soon learned that there is a difference between a judgement and an opinion. I will change an opinion but I won't change a judgement. 

     For example if I see a guy for the first time, he's dirty, and looks like a bum, I'll call him a dirty bum. If I see him a year later and he is cleaned up and doing well, if my first impression was an opinion I will say "Oh, he's cleaned up, he is no longer a dirty bum", but if I have judged him I will most likely say, A suit don't change things he is still a dirty bum."

     What does this have to do about race? Every race has an opinion about another race. The unwillingness to change the opinion makes it racism.

     I have a racist skeleton in my closet. If I heard a white person speak with a southern accent I assumed they were racist.

I WAS WRONG. 

It took enlistment in the Navy to prove me wrong. One of my best and loyal friends was a red head freckled kid from Tennessee. Today I listen to the words and not the accent.

     Mark Cuban and I are entitled to our opinion. He and I should both be allowed to make a mistake we are human.

     Now Donald Sterling on the other hand has proven in thought and deed to be an outright racist. He is also prejudice to people who have AIDS and are HIV positive.

     He has practiced racism as a property owner. I know a Vietnam combat veteran who was displaced due to his racist practice. Therefore Sterling has earned the title of racist, and Mark Cuban has not. 

     Now, if you ask me if Mark Cuban's remarks about a black man in a hoodie was smart? Hell no! It was stupid in fact. He has a business and it just might be effected as a result.

     Should he be judged a racist. No. Saying or thinking dumb things does not tell you what is in a person's heart. His actions give you a clear view.

     So I give Cuban a pass for saying something that was not to smart for a NBA owner. 

     Of course that is my opinion  and I'm sticking with it for now!

WHEN SHOULD A HUMAN BEING BE CONSIDERED VERMIN?

First of all let me state that, I was middle of the road when it came to State Sanctioned Executions, yet I leaned  more to the side of abolishing it all together. People like Clayton Lockett, had no mercy for Stephanie Neiman, the girl he shot and buried alive, so I really have no problem with him receiving the harshest punishment allowed under the law.                                                                                                                                                                                     

Yet I also believe that executions in the U.S. are race biased, and in many cases there is no way to determine if the person being killed by the government is 100% guilty.

This is not about Lockett and murdering scum like him, it about us. The American people.

I recall when I attempted to read the book "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich", by William I. Shirer.

I couldn't finish the book because when I got to the Nazi executions, I could not stomach reading any further.

That brings me to the point I am trying to make.

In 1933 Nazi Germany, the Jews were considered "parasitic vermin". Nazi leaders determined in their infamous "Final Solution" that a country had the right to rid itself of vermin even if human.

The problem they had, was determining the best way to execute a large mass of humans at the same time.

They began to experiment, first with carbon monoxide poisoning, by actually putting victims in the back of trucks designed to pump carbon monoxide into them and then drive the victims around for hours until they expired.

They lined up humans in firing squads, that resembled a car assembly line. They put people in freezers and did mass drownings and other horrible experimentation, until they finally developed the gas Zyklon B, to carry out their Legal and authorized executions under German law at the time.

After the horrific botched executions, the most recent in Oklahoma, I couldn't help but draw the comparison. Just like the Nazis, states that still have the Death Penalty, are having problems with finding a humane way to carry out state sanctioned killings of human beings. They are experimenting with drugs, procedures and even companies that manufacture the drugs secret.

Even though, the reasons and justifications for killing humans for crimes maybe different in The United States of America in 2014, compared to 1933 Nazi Germany, the means to the end are horribly the same.

For this reason I have been pushed totally to the side to abolish the Death Penalty in all 50 States. If they have a problem with doing it humanely then it should not be done at all.

Bottom line,for what ever reasons a country deems it necessary to kill humans with the same regard one has for cock roaches, it is SICK, SICK,SICK!!!!

I did say that people like Lockett should get the harshest punishment under the law. But if there were not a death penalty law that could be applied I would not it expect it after he had a fair trail. I would except life in prison without parole.