Originally published via Armageddon Prose Substack:
(Addendum to This Is America: Gas Station Verbal Altercation in Barely Intelligible Urban Dialect Leads to Flipped SUV)
We previously reported on the urban combatant who flipped her SUV outside of a gas station after an altercation involving various threats.
(All apologies that the link won’t embed; Twitter recently went to war with Substack and now the latter is not allowing Tweets to be embedded here.)
She rose from the wreckage like a bona fide phoenix and went straight back, without missing a beat, to her unintelligible verbal abuse of the patron filming the incident.
Now the young lady has been charged with multiple felonies.
The thing about the violence depicted here is how completely arbitrary and recreational it seems.
My uncle, when I was a child, built a model train in his basement with a painstaking recreational devotion to detail, even making little plastic trees the size of toothpicks to place on the mountains around the tracks. Piece by piece, he erected this landscape over the course of years.
Once it was finished, he drove the train around the tracks and I watched intently because I was eight and it was awesome.
These people in the video have the same level of devotion, it seems, only to wanton violence in gas stations.
What would Malcolm X think?
Say what you will about the morality of Malcolm X’s philosophy of black nationalism, but he knew who he was and what he wanted for the future of his race. They were lofty and noble goals.
Is this his legacy?
Ben Bartee is an independent Bangkok-based American journalist with opposable thumbs.
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