Cake is Cake

This was an old post, that I just decided to to republish.

Think about that for just a moment. How many different variations of cake are there in the world. Probably more than I could ever count. Some have fruit in them, some have icing on them, some have multiple layers, and sometimes they’re shaped like other objects. But when you come right down to it, it’s still cake. No matter how you slice it, how you serve it, or how you eat it, it’s still just cake! That was the nice sugar coated part of this post. So if you are easily offended or don’t like the truth, you might want to stop here.

All over the place people are using the horrible tragedy of a man‘s wrongful death as justification to riot, and cause harm to other people. So I am going to put things into perspective for you here. I see lots of people saying it’s about equality and oppression. Well I am here to tell this generation, they don’t know the first thing about being oppressed. Rosa Parks, now she was mistreated and oppressed. On December 1, 1955, Parks was arrested for refusing a bus driver's instructions to give up her seat to a white passenger. She later recalled that her refusal wasn't because she was physically tired, but that she was tired of giving in. Legally what she did was a crime but she never harmed another person by her actions. She actually did more than she could have ever known at the time for civil rights. Another one for you, Susan B Anthony, She took matters into her own hands in 1872, when she voted illegally in the presidential election. Anthony was arrested for the crime, and she unsuccessfully fought the charges. Another person who paved the way for future generations by committing a crime according to the law, but she never hurt a sole.

And of course we can’t forget the most famous of them all. Martin Luther King Jr., he directed the peaceful march on Washington, D.C., of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his address, “l Have a Dream”, he conferred with President John F. Kennedy and campaigned for President Lyndon B. Johnson; he was arrested upwards of twenty times and was assaulted at least four times; he was awarded five honorary degrees; was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963; and became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure. And he never harmed a single innocent person all the while. But I’m not finished there. Oh no, because there are still so many who will try to molest the context of that to suite. And yes I used that uncomfortable word in the correct context and intentionally. And here is why, if you are of the opinion that the riots which many are calling protests, are justified because of the wrongful death of a man, then you are in favor of crime in general. Still don’t understand? Maybe this will help, if I come break into your home and take your belongings, it’s ok because I’m protesting the laws that say you own what you buy with your own money. Or someone drives drunk and crashes their car into your child, killing them, but it’s ok because they’re protesting the laws that say drunk driving is illegal. Or God forbid, your teenage daughter is raped or your toddler is molested, but it’s ok because they’re protesting the laws that say sexual assault is illegal. Remember the beginning of this post? Cake is cake. Well so is everything else. Crime is crime. Sin is Sin, and wrong is wrong. If you support any wrong doing, then you support all wrong doing.

It really is that simple.