And in this corner...WTF!?

(NOTE: Sometimes, I do my best to avoid potentially controversial topics, but I felt okay enough to speak out on this one. If for no other reason, because insomnia's a foul beast.)


Like many, I'm disgusted  by the very existence of George Zimmerman (yes, the love child of the NRA and the questionable Florida justice system), and his recent proposal to face someone in "celebrity" boxing. I could go on about the trial, its results, how it makes me feel in many ways, but I've said enough to that in other areas. On a lesser matter, I could even harp about why I put the word celebrity in quotes (which I kinda' do, later). But I think it goes without saying that for someone to have taken a young man's life to consider themselves a noteworthy figure says a lot about 1) the person's warped sense of reality, and 2) the warping of said reality by those that support him.

It should also go without saying that there was a long list of applicants (15 K+, to be exact) that wished to damage him (or worse) for the reason his name's relevant/mud to many, applicant or not. Even when I first heard about the story, something else came to mind along with my disgust, that being the question "Does it have to be a celebrity to fight him?" The amount of people that would love their chance, regardless of their social status in any scope, could fill a small country, but in the end,  one was chosen...

Rapper/Actor/"Father of the Year", DMX.

So I'm a little at odds about this. It's allegedly for charity on X's case, okay, good. Charity is good at any situation. But when you say things like this...

"I am going to break every rule in boxing to make sure I **** him up. Once I am done, I am going to whip my **** out and piss on him. Zimmerman is a piece of **** and that is what he needs to drink." 

...all you better do is win. I don't care how, so long as you also don't take more than you give to said charity (which, if you're a complete jerk, it might be understood if he does), but there's a lot riding on this. There's the undeniable racial tension written all over Zimmerman's miasma even outside of fight night, and because of that, others have expressed their own brand of justice (however so sloppily).

While DMX hasn't gone as far as his opponent has, both of them (more George, anyway) make me think about the movie Natural Born Killers, which eventually speaks up in a satirical fashion how much notorious people in the news become twisted superstars, with people wanting to be (with) them because their own lives lack the energy and unhealthy exposure. But we are in a world where non-celebrities in lockup are able to "hook up with local singles," so I guess things like this are the next step.

So it really comes down to whether or not I'll watch it. I want to comfortably say "no," but I'd be damned if I'm not interested in at least the results, but it may come down to if it's available for me.

Look, I'm not gonna' sit here and say that I don't want X to do what he says he'll do (however comical it'll be if he does give him a phallic hose down), but it doesn't really matter who's in the ring. Both of them have blood and dirt on their hands, but for the interested, it's coming down to whose crime(s) is/are the most reprehensible (and defenses can be done for both, sadly).  

In the end, I doubt something like this is worth any major or cable network's time, so until I'm proven wrong, let's just guess this'll be online and be done with it. Maybe while it's on, I'll watch Killers in some strange sense of protest.

And because of the lead-up to (SPOILER WARNING!!) this scene.


     
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