Though some people might find the actions of Rodney Hinton Jr. unacceptable in today’s modern society, I believe he’s the anti-hero American needs right now. A black Father willing and ready to risk it all for this son, in an America that sees black men and women as conventional for the America way of life rather apart of it. There is a general sense of being made to feel that we are outsiders in our homeland and somehow we’ve been trespassing since inception. The sight of us warns, malice, unaware psychological hatred, disrespect any being on this earth in his right mind wouldn’t stand for. And some how, as a group, we haven’t seeked revenge.
How many people haven’t died at the hands of a police officer supposedly “protecting and serving” the community? We’re clearly not there community. Police departments have set up a business invoicing the lives of black men and women with damn near immunity, because nothing changes. Nothing changes but the name of the person being shot, or arrested, or being beaten half to death. And “punishments” are not enough to absolve the repeated habits of our public servants. Leaving the victims and their families with less than they had; less money, less family, less belief in the justice system, less love.
At some point America should’ve know there’d be a Rodney Hinton Jr. I’m sure I can find another man that killed a cop. But the way that Rodney Hinton Jr. did it had a little extra on. It feels honorable. Like a samurai hunting down the killer of teacher, it’s not just pure revenge. Someone that means the world to me was taken from me and the only way to repay him is kill his killer.
Burning in paradise 