So this video takes audio from Richard Randall’s show on 5/21, where he vaguely lumps all sorts of people in together and implies that they are unsavory characters… Pit Bull owners, tattooed individuals, stocking hat wearers, hooded sweatshirt wearers, sports team jacket wearers, do-cap wearers, people who don’t wear belts, men with long hair, likely men with shaved heads, etc.

Then, during my search to find this audio clip, I initially listened to the wrong day (5/22). It was there where I heard Randall, and guests, harp on the fact that Mitt Romney was being unfairly treated inside of a high school classroom. Apparently the teacher was very pro-Obama, and she started actually screaming at a kid who was simply pointing out that “Obama wasn’t a God” (kid’s words). They actually played the audio clip on the show, and (from my perspective) it was just a kid who was trying to point out that neither Romney nor Obama were above criticism. The teacher’s argument was that you couldn’t criticize Obama because he was the President, and that that showed “disrespect” towards him…

Now, I’m neither a Republican or a Democrat, so I don’t have any kind of a political side to defend here. I was, however, far more interested in the tone that Randall and his guest took when discussing this situation… Because it was the exact opposite type of a tone that he had taken just a day earlier, when discussing “hoodies” and “Pit Bulls.” They now had objections that this teacher was not allowing for a fair discussion, and instead “indoctrinating” a classroom full of students with her political beliefs. On that, I agree with them… A teacher has no business, whether Republican or Democrat, forcing their worldview onto their students. That goes against everything that a classroom is supposed to represent. They were then calling this kid, and his actions, “heroic,” because he stood up for some objectivity and voiced his concern.

So my questions are then… Where was the objectivity on 5/21? Isn’t grouping essentially millions of people together, based on a piece of clothing or a specific type of dog, irresponsibly ignorant at its core? Wouldn’t speaking to thousands of radio listeners in a totally UNOBJECTIVE way, also be considered an indoctrination? And then, am I a “hero” by their standards for posting this video in response? Or does that only apply to individuals that stand up for what could be considered as Randall’s “side” of the argument? And finally, why does the Pit Bull’s reputation have to take another massive hit? Subtle, but massive. This is exactly why so many people, who have never even met/seen/experienced a Pit Bull in person, end up thinking HOW they think… Because media figures, like Randall, are constantly projecting a sensationalistic tone whenever these dogs are referenced.