A bit abrasive may be an understatement, but he wasnt wrong about everything he talked about. Can someone give me a list of countries that I can walk into illegally & they will give me cash, free housing & a free phone?
His firing was an example of how much freedom of speech we actually have.If you don't read the papers, you're uninformed. If you read the papers, you're misinformed. - Mark Twain
You can imagine that I didn't agree with him most of the time. Still, after listen to a few live streams there was more to him than what he was spewing out.
For the 'no good so and so' he made himself out to be, there was still good in him.
I was intrigued by him. He had all kinds of money and basically made these AM stations his toy to spew out whatever he felt like. A lot of people do a lot of things with their wealth, he used it unlike anyone else...he did it to get out some kind of message...
But with all of that, he was a hurting soul and it just came out. The anger didn't fool me too much...what I heard was true pain... It could have come from the loss of his son...maybe past relationships, and perceived pain caused by whatever 'establishment' down in St. Clair County that crossed him. He loved his hometown of East St. Louis and never lost his engagement with it.
I don't like the words he used and reject his racial slurs...but he still never forgot his home town and didn't turn his back on it.
For the no good so and so he tried to be and often succeeded in being.......it's not the whole story.
For the one who sees all, hopefully those things also weigh heavy in the balance.
He fought the good fight and the bad fight all at once, in a world where the line is not always so well defined...
I don't know if his struggles are over or not, but I hope the best for his sake....
People get tough with their language in comment sections and many will be saying good riddance, because it seems like the politically correct and 'anti-racist' thing to do.
I am anti-racist, but I can't follow suit. Man, there would be too many wonderful people I knew in Granite City that I would be obligated to hate.
In everyone, there is good. But in everyone, there is lack of understanding.....lack of clarity....and so much that keeps our vision from being clear.
In the end, we are stripped of what we accrued on Earth. We all are not all that different.When you ban books before you ban guns, you've admitted that you're more afraid of children learning than you are of children dying.
It was easy to call him racist because of his language, but if you actually listened to what he said, he was anything but racist. A lot of black people called in and totally agreed with him. He spoke up against any color of sh#tbum and praised all colors of good people. He spoke his mind as the shock jock he was.If you don't read the papers, you're uninformed. If you read the papers, you're misinformed. - Mark Twain
I think he was a good cop, and when he was Police Chief in Washington Park that was not an easy gig. I also agree with you about his language but he could have avoided a lot of pushback if he could have curtailed most of that.Can someone give me a list of countries that I can walk into illegally & they will give me cash, free housing & a free phone?