My mother actually was the one who introduced me to that term, AAM disease.  It stands for “All About Me”, which is what MANY, MANY people today suffer from.  You see, they DO NOT CARE how anything they do affects anyone else, if they feel that barging into a room firing a weapon will help them, they do it, never thinking about anyone else.  Some even are confused when they are arrested for their crimes.  Today, in Dallas/Fort Worth, we saw yet another example of this.

It seems that a man who feels he is being “repressed” because of the color of his skin, decided to steal a car after getting into an argument in a Lowes parking lot in Carrolton.  He proceeded to FLIP that car, and when a doctor stopped to try to help anyone who was injured, this person threatened the doctor with a firearm, and STOLE THE DOCTOR’S CAR.  He then drove to a truck stop in Fairview, where he kidnapped a female truck driver, forcing her to drive him in her rig.  The chase then began.  From Fairview, they drove all the way south of Dallas to Oak Cliff, at which point they headed back toward downtown.  From their they went back toward Oak Cliff, and got on I-20.  Today being Sunday, thankfully the highway was not as packed as normal.  The chase was very slow by this point, as the Dallas PD had already spiked the tires, leaving the rig running on rims only for the front two tires.  By then end of all of this, this rig was finally stopped by Texas State Troopers who shot the tires out on the trailer section, and punctured the gas tank (which, since it was diesel fuel, did not ignite).  At this point, a standoff ensued, until the police ordered the media to cut all feeds as they suspected this person was watching it on TV.  After lobbing in tear gas, the hostage taker, his hostage and her dog were removed from the vehicle and, thankfully, no one was hurt.

Now, I am sure that the aclu(natics) or someone who “thinks” like them (although I do not believe the aclu actually THINKS) will claim “excessive force” or claim that this man had “no choice” because “society turned it’s back on him”.  At one point, he was allowed to speak to the media, at which point he said that he did all of this as a “political statement”.  You see he feels that “black men are born with an X on their back” and that he has been unable to find a job due to his skin color.  I would submit that he can’t find a job because he isn’t looking, because there are supposedly HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of jobs “Americans won’t do”, but if he needs a job, I am sure he would take what he could get.  Well, he has a job now, making license plates in the state pen.

I weep for the future every time I see something like this.  Young people today are brought up being shielded from EVERYTHING except what they should be shielded from.  Schools will not let teachers use red ink becaue it might hurt a student’s feelings.  Every student who even shows up for a contest gets a ribbon.  Practices like this are causing this problem, because children are being taught that they do not have to work for ANYTHING, but when they get to the real world, where they DO HAVE TO WORK for things, they are confused and crap like this happens.  So, how do we fix this, start failing students who cannot pass their grade, stop giving awards for simply showing up, and bring back the red ink (I know I saw a lot of red ink in my days in school).  On top of that, let teachers or principles paddle students.  Do more than just detention or suspension, make students realize that when they mess up, it is NOT fun having to “do the time”.  If we don’t get a handle on this quick, I fear we will not be able to!

Cross posted at Smoke Signals Blog

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   Pingback by Swap Blog » Blog Archive » Life Lessons? — 7/24/2006 @ 2:02 pm

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2. we are a nation of laws. I’m not sure why anyone would disagree with that? As progressive, as a Black progressive, I’m sorry that this dude felt the world has rained on his parade. But the fact is, life is tough. It is tough all over. It is tough for progressives as it is for conservatives. Progressives recognize this. We recognize that this guy lost it. We recognize that this guy needs to go to jail. I think this is something that conservatives and progressives can agree on.

   Comment by ecthompson — 7/25/2006 @ 12:06 pm

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3. No, we’re a nation of people.

   And activist judges who are 1) ignoring the spirit of our laws and 2) makine rulings without regard for the law and

   And we’re a nation with a good minority of godless hacks who are trying to dictate to the majority of christian believers how to behave and what is appopriate and what isn’t, in terms of our faith. 

   That’s just your using your religion as political power over me.  I don’t have to believe as you do.  I see nothing redeeming about a godless religion that would enforce legislated theft to feed useless human beings and drug addicts who have for generations been living on my tax money.

   I resent the implication that government can raise our children better than we can.

   To my knowledge, my relationship with Jesus Christ is nobody’s business and I resent your telling me when and where I can show that I believe in Him.

   That’s rude and I don’t understand how these people grew to adulthood without learning some of the most basic lessons in civility.  Another example is how people lie and misrepresent themselves, pad their resumes, and think cheating on tests in school is ok.

    This is yet another failing of the ‘progressive’ (read “communist”) movement.

   Comment by Cao — 7/25/2006 @ 1:48 pm

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4. It’s interesting to see that people believe that the color of their skin or the acts that they commit somehow place themselves above the law or give them an excuse for behaving badly.

   I’m afraid it will take more than just paddling and failing students, though. It will take reintroducing Christian morality– or more people homeschooling and getting these kids minds out of the cookie-cutter molds public schools put them in.

   Comment by MInTheGap — 7/25/2006 @ 9:04 pm

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5. MTG - It isn’t that this person believes the color of his skin puts him above the law, he just wants to USE his skin color to get away with crap others can’t. I heard quotes from him saying that he was going to die, this will end badly, the police ARE going to hurt me. Yet, even though he had a weapon, took a hostage, and RAMMED A POLICE CAR, the worst thing that happened was that he got a little tear gas in his eyes and went to jail!

   Oh, BTW - did I tell you that this man is a CONVICTED FELON! But, naturally, he can’t get a job because of his skin color, not his FELONY drug/weapon conviction.

   Comment by The Smoke Eater — 7/27/2006 @ 11:55 am

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