Power and prejudice I

It is still a mighty humid morning at 66 degrees F, and the prediction is for that to reach 104 degrees later in the day. So before me and my comp both heat up and reach that stupor again, I decided to make good on my desire to discuss the three oppressed sets as per my June 8 blog entry. The spark was ignited the poet's commencement speech and the Green River Killer docudrama i watched the same day. However, i must admit that i have been thinking of these groups for a very long time now, trying to decide on who are the real victims. The women, The black men and the unborn children.

Before i proceed, here's a little background for you:

The poet's commencement speech: He addressed the plights of the second two groups, implicitly imploring our graduates to do right by both. I found it interesting that he singled out black men of the two available genders. In fact he quoted a haiku to that effect which i unfortunately forgot (see mr jones, my memory is not quite you praise it to be! :) Un bizou pour toi!). Indeed his speech was rather a union of poems, haikus and blank verses interlinked with some personal tit-bits.

Green River Killer: When Ridgway was asked if he had any regrets about the 71 murders he committed, he teared up, and said, 'Yes, I was not perfect. I left trails and evidence.' In other words he did not do justice to his so-called 'career'. (I find these utterings interesting and will come back to it later). He received 48 life sentences with no possibility of parole. He was also sentenced to an additional 10 years per 48 victims for evidence tampering, adding 480 years to his 48 life sentences. Gary Ridgway was the infamous Green river Killer who eluded justice for 20 some years. His victims were either prostitutes or teenage runaways, or can be grouped as female destitutes in most cases.

Darn, i forgot that i have to do something, so will be back later to finish what i started, hopefully.