King in rehabilitation as fortune drains away

Los Angeles Daily News ^ | Danny Pollock, AP

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

His constant run-ins with law enforcement have frustrated African-Americans who hoped he could have become something else, a hero in the struggle against police brutality. Instead, King seems to have reinforced the image many non-African-Americans held of him, as an incorrigible hoodlum.

I agree, this is sad. The man could have pulled himself up by his bootstraps and, by his example, shown the black community how to do the same. Instead he serves another purpose: by his inability to confront himself, his past and his culture, by wallowing in victimhood, by shrugging off responsibility and accountability for his own life, Rodney King has become a caricature of all that is wrong with the liberal plantation.

Leave it to the media to ignore this aspect.

[RightOnline]

King is trash now; he was trash "then". To think that S. Central L.A. burned itself to the ground over this piece of crap........................amazing.

[martin_fierro]

"Can't we all just get stoned?"

[tjg]

"pulled himself up by his bootstraps"

Bootstraps? He was tethered to the good life by $3.8 million.

Self destructive is the only way to describe his behavior.

[Lewite]

Positive piece of crap. The wrong ones were convicted in his case. The police should have been decorated for putting up with a slime ball like rodney cancorus king!!!! He (king) will always be a dirtbag!!!!

[BunnySlippers]

To think that S. Central L.A. burned itself to the ground over this piece of crap........................amazing.

I hate to say it but the reason South Central was burned to the ground is because most of the citizens of South Central are on the same page as Rodney King.

They are surely getting the wrong advise from their black leaders who continue to coddle their victimhood.

[Tacis]

My bet is that most of King's black brothers spent a lot more effort trying to get a chunk of the 3.8 million than they did trying to help King. No, change that to "brothers, black and white." Can you imagine some of the pressure that the rap music guys, buddies from the old days, dealers and others must have put on ole "Can't we all just get along" King?

[Shooter 2.5]

This individual isn't a tragic figure. The real tragedy was about the person who was beaten to the edge of his life after being dragged from his truck and slammed in the head with a concrete block. I'll save my sympathy for someone who deserves it.

[hole_n_one]

The real tragedy was about the person who was beaten to the edge of his life after being dragged from his truck and slammed in the head with a concrete block.

That would be Reginald Denny........

[laconic]

"Tragic figure"? No, a cheap hustler and a petty crook who lived off the hard work of others paid to the state in taxes. The tragic figures are the cops who chased a drug-crazed drunk going 100 mph through the streets of LA and got thrown in jail for "overreacting" to please a few elites in the news media.

[LowOiL]

May 1995. Arrested in New Union Township, Pa., on suspicion of drunken driving after the vehicle got stuck in a muddy yard. Tried on charge of drunken driving despite conflicting information about who was behind the wheel. Acquitted by jury.

Hummm... Acquitted by jury...Somehow this doesn't surprise me. Look how many of those arrests he had the charges dropped. They were scared of him after what the media/blacks did.

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

How many of us KNEW this was going to happen? There was a local *welfare* woman who received a huge amount of money in an injury settlement. She has squandered virtually all of it.

[hole_n_one]

I found Tacis' post ( #8) very insightful.

[Shooter 2.5]

Thanks for the man's I.D.. I won't forget the incident but I couldn't remember his name.

[Paulie]

"Can't we all just get stoned?" Are you a libertarian?

[martin_fierro]

No -- although ol' Rodney sure is acting like one.

[mass55th]

He may have had scrapes with the law, but he never did any time. Between no charges being filed, being acquitted and being given probation, this guy has never received the proper punishment for the crimes he's committed. If you think this record of getting off is unique, multiply that by thousands of criminals across this country. When people say "he has a record as long as your arm," they aren't just kidding. After having been arrested nine times, Rodney King has yet to be convicted and sentenced to any time in a state prison. He's definitely what's wrong with the liberal plantation...commit a crime and you don't have to do the time because it's always someone else's fault.

[marktwain]

"Tragic figure"? No, a cheap hustler and a petty crook who lived off the hard work of others paid to the state in taxes. The tragic figures are the cops who chased a drug-crazed drunk going 100 mph through the streets of LA and got thrown in jail for "overreacting" to please a few elites in the news media.

Excellent post. You summed it up well. King is the opposite of a Liberterian. It appears that he has lived his entire life at the expense of others.

[Stingray51]

Rodney, how about your namesake!