Except for the cute one, am I the only person who sees some similarity between the “Logan 6″ and these guys:
I kept hearing the words “how could something like this happen?!?” and “I’m so shocked that something like this happened!” Now, I realize that not everyone’s job is as exciting as mine, but just yesterday my travels took me to a place where I got to listen in on 3 generations of men throw the N-bomb around like so much confetti while swapping stories about what it was like when they were in prison. As in “I had to cut an (N-bomb) up.”
All while waiting on some used truck parts. It was creepy.
Believe what you want folks, but racism is alive and well in this country, and it’s especially ‘live and well the further south you get from the hard road. And on top of that, there’s never been a shortage of sick, violent fucks in rural America. I’m actually shocked that things like this don’t happen more often.
September 18, 2007 at 4:18 pm
Jeez…what are you doing for work these days anyhow?
September 18, 2007 at 8:25 pm
Did anyone hear Scott Finn’s interview with the locals? None of them seemed surprised.
September 19, 2007 at 8:53 am
Anyone who says “I can’t believe this happened” has never been to the walmart on southridge the day after the welfare checks arrive in mingo and logan counties. I’d go to a liquor store in the east end wearing a vest made of money and crack cocaine before I go to that walmart where the logan mingo folks go.
September 19, 2007 at 1:45 pm
Ah, if only there were a liquor store on the East End. Sometimes Rite-Aid just doesn’t cut it. A girl can dream…
September 19, 2007 at 2:23 pm
The rite aid between the capitol and CAMC down there is as close to a liquor store as it gets. That place on the west side shut down too.
September 19, 2007 at 2:40 pm
Pretty sure the East End needs a liquor store like it needs a picnic shelter for the hookers.
September 19, 2007 at 2:55 pm
Mmm…crack cocaine vest.
September 19, 2007 at 3:37 pm
Like wearing a shirt made of cotton candy at the putnam county junior fair….
or a tie made of money to a WV trial lawyers association meeting.
A picnic shelter for the hookers would be great. Its tough being a cop in charleston when it rains.
September 19, 2007 at 4:29 pm
Where do you expect them to take their lunch breaks?
September 19, 2007 at 4:41 pm
I figured they were getting plenty of calories already.
The cops, I figure, can go to Tudor’s -if they can bear the walk from the parking lot next door to get inside.
September 19, 2007 at 5:45 pm
I can remember when racism was institutionalized not that really means anything. Also, there are a lot of reasons to avoid Wal*Mart.
September 19, 2007 at 9:37 pm
This monstrosity seems to be racism plus.
Dropping the n-word is one thing. Dropping it while holding a person against her will for a significant period of time AND torturing said person is another.
Generally speaking, from my experiences, the new racism is pseudo-sophisticated using hints, code words, sneers, ridicule of minority concerns, and demands for PROOF.
The message, however, is not very subtle.
Those who traffic in this “new” racism get it, live it, and wear it like a medal, all the while keeping a certain, smarmy deniability.
What happened in Logan County is of the old style, coupled with a bizarre sexual sadism that could hardly be manufactured by Tarantino.
I even feel dirty and violated just thinking about it.
September 20, 2007 at 10:14 am
These are low-grade pill snorting meth smoking miscreants too dumb and too wallowed in squalor and to perceive their own racism as anything deeper than name-calling. Hating blacks misses the point – they hate everything, everybody, and they don’t fit in. They will be much happier and healthier in prison, and they are probably already figuring that out.
They don’t know from code or sophisticated racial sneers – you have to listen to people like hannity and Rush to learn that dialect – and these folks are too dumb and disconnected to even be cognizant of radical right-wing hate merchants on the airwave. Which is pretty frighteneing, when you think about it. Too dumb for Rush.
September 20, 2007 at 5:34 pm
Where is Mojo on this issue? I haven’t heard anything from him?
September 20, 2007 at 10:34 pm
Ahhh, BigStomp, you mention the king of the dullards, Rushie.
You wouldn’t believe how many of the dullards I hear refer to him in reverent tones, quoting him at length.
When they do it they have firm jaws and squinted eyes as only the true believer can.
I’m reminded of those pics from Nazi Germany of adoring fans of old Adoph, who by the way, is often cited by my fruitcake acquaintances as “right.”
But back to Rushie—–his credentials as a spokesperson of the “do as I say but not as I do” family value slime will be sorely tested and soon.
Can everyone say “outed?”