I don’t praise people who ruin fight videos
That will only encourage them
Internets,
When you see two kids fighting in the street, do the right thing: pull out your phone and start filming!
Make sure your camera is turned to landscape mode, not portrait. Bonus points if you yell out World Star at the exact moment when things are about to get lit.
What you definitely shouldn’t do is try to break it up.
A guy in Atlantic City is being praised for breaking up a fight between two kids, in a video that’s since gone viral on the Internets, and my fear is that this might lead to a trend of people ending World Star videos before they can get good.
You shouldn’t intervene in a street fight anyway, because you could get hurt, and injuries sustained breaking up a street fight almost certainly won’t be covered under Trumpcare. You’ll be ruined financially.
You could also be arrested, if 5–0 shows up. The police could give a rat’s ass about you doing the right thing. If you’re in the street (which you shouldn’t be anyway, but let’s not get off topic), you were also involved in the fight. They’d rather not have people breaking up fights, because the more people who fight, the more people they can arrest, which helps fund the prison-industrial complex and therefore provides them with job security.
If it’s two girls fighting, there’s minimal risk of anyone getting hurt, and there’s also much less risk of the police getting involved. Perhaps because they’re not viewed by law enforcement as being strong enough or smart enough to pose much of a threat (I of course disagree), women aren’t subject to nearly as much scrutiny as men. If a woman is arrested, it’s probably because the cops are trying to get her to rat out a guy for a crime she actually did.
There’s no way of knowing, just seeing two kids fighting in the street, that one of them doesn’t deserve to be severely beaten. One of the kids could have stolen something especially expensive, or joined the alt-right. In a situation where a beatdown is morally justified, the right thing to do is jump in on the side of the other kid. Breaking up such a fight would only serve to stand in the way of justice.
In the viral video, the guy who broke up the fight, Ibn Ali Miller, assumes that the larger, more conservatively dressed brother, who might be my son, was the aggressor, but come to find out, it was the guy in bright red shoes and those pants a lot of the kids these days are wearing that get real tight around the ankles. Those shoes may have been pink. I can’t see shit these days, and I couldn’t tell which color was which back when I could see.
The kid in the pink shoes could have been in love with the other kid, I mean if he’s wearing pink shoes. In a situation like that, the right thing for the other kid to do was fight him off, if only as practice for what he’ll need to do in prison. By intervening in this fight, Miller may have put the chubby kid at risk of becoming another guy’s bitch. He’s in bad enough shape as it is, without having to give up his fruit cocktail on a daily basis.
Miller criticizes the kids filming the fight for not intervening and for not being concerned with the safety of the combatants. What he fails to realize is that those kids could potentially upload those videos to YouTube and make a lot of money from them, and that’s pretty much the only quasi-legal opportunity for a black kid in 2017. I can tell them from personal experience that going to college won’t do them any good.
Ironically, someone is making quite a bit of money from this video, though it might not be any of those kids. According to a local TV news article that I skimmed, one video of the incident had been viewed over 20 million times as of the other day. Are the kids getting that money? If this brother really wanted to make a difference in the community, he could teach those kids how to make sure they get paid for their World Star videos. If you’re gonna do something wrong, you might as well get paid for it. Pimps have understood this for years.
At a city council meeting the other day, Miller was honored for his courageous efforts. Accepting this honor, he broke down in tears and paused his remarks to hug his mom, the real MVP. He didn’t seem to understand that he hadn’t won an actual award and that the media was only there to troll the black community. I was reminded of that time Michael Jackson thought he’d won an Artist of the Millennium award, which isn’t a thing that exists.
David Blaine, your magic is real.
Take it easy on yourself,
Bol
Originally published at tinyletter.com.
