Baton Rouge Thought Cops Killing Black People Was Hilarious Until Now
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Baton Rouge Thought Cops Killing Black People Was Hilarious Until Now
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It's funny because don't you have a sense of humor?
You’ll be astonished to learn the shooting death of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, took place in a community that was not entirely free of racial stresses. Yes, really, even though racism is officially over. So please keep in mind that while some hotheads may consider some of what we discuss here examples of “racial conflict,” that is only because you are a liberal racist who sees racism everywhere.
Still, there are probably some people who might find February’s Mardi Gras parade, known in Baton Rouge as the Spanish Town Parade, a tad problematic, seeing as how it featured some hilarious jokes about cops killing black people, like the big “Pink Lives Matter” float pictured above and below. You see, it was a funny little play on the “black lives matter” movement, only it featured a photo of a cop shooting a flamingo, the parade’s mascot. But it’s OK, you see, because the Spanish Town Parade is famous for its outrageous humor. Besides, there were no racist images, just pictures of flamingos getting abused by police. Totally different!
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Flamingo float
The back of the float featured amusing bird jokes (and that’s all they were, you hater), like an invitation to join “the Million Perp March” with “Louis Fair Hawk Khan,” “Wings Up, Don’t Shoot!” and something about “Freddie Gray Goose,” although we can’t find a copy of what’s written underneath:
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Flamingo float 4
Then there was another float featuring this amusing image of a flamingo being beaten with police nightsticks, wearing a sign reading “I can’t breathe.” You know, like that guy who had to die for selling loose cigarettes. It, too, is only a joke:
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Oh, and also some guys waved Confederate flags, because Mardi Gras is all about venerating Heritage.
Now, while the people who made the floats and signs no doubt thought they were really a “hoot” — another bird joke! — not everyone in Baton Rouge has a jolly sense of humor about the topic of cops killing black men; one local blogger labeled the floats “a piss poor parade.” She noted,
Parades are public events, for public enjoyment. The ENTIRE public. If Spanish Town was for “whites only”, someone should have posted a sign. I’m sure some residents still have a sign or two stored, just in case … I shouldn’t have had to look at the black children around me and wonder if they recognized what they were seeing. I shouldn’t have had to feel like an outsider in my hometown.
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What is the premise?
That everyone knows that flamingos are just dumb birds and cops, or anyone else for that matter, is perfectly in their rights to massacre them. And what's funny is if these birds were actually cognizant of their dire situation and demanded that people respect their right to life as well. Hahahahahahaha
And so the leap is that Blacks are on the same level as dumb birds. And its funny that these creatures would actually ask authorities not to kill them. Hahahahahahahaha
