On CNN today, a repulsive person named Marc Lamont Hill, a professor at Columbia University, expressed a certain sympathy for the deservedly dead murderer Chris Dorner, and said that watching his murder spree and manhunt was “almost like watching Django Unchained in real life. It’s kind of exciting.”
Here is what Hill, a Columbia professor who bills himself as a “hip-hop intellectual,” finds exciting: Dorner’s shooting to death four innocent people, including a couple who had gotten engaged four days earlier, and two cops who left behind wives and small children.
The scummy Hill, of course, is a racist. Sounds like he’s made a decent media career out of it. I wish he were forced to stand in front of the grieving widows, children, mothers and fathers and tell them how “exciting” he found the Dorner drama.
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I thoroughly enjoyed Django Unchained, and I may go see it again, so let me take first crack at distinguishing it from Hill’s reflexive comparison to Chris Dorner.
The first two men killed in the Django movie were personally moving a cargo of chained enslaved men across a desert… I’m not aware that any of the people Dorner killed had ever done anything to Dorner at all. The next three men killed were personally committing acts of extreme brutality on a daily basis. The last batch to die had indulged personally in a pattern of back-stabbing, attempted castration, torture… a truly unspeakable crowd.
Dorner might be considered a perverse analogy to another recent movie, Gangster Squad. On the surface, the squad featured in that movie was also going after some really bad guys. But they were going outside the law to do so — according to the script, necessarily given the pervasive corruption of local law enforcement. The problem with that is, one might postulate that in his own mind Dorner was using his police skills to go after bad people who had eluded the strictures of the law… I enjoyed watching Cohen’s despicable gang get taken apart, but once you take the law into your own hands, its a bad example…
…except, a couple who just got engaged? Sounds like a target of opportunity who happened to be in his path. And the two cops? Individuals who were blindly considered to be stand-ins for institutional flaws (if any), that they personally could hardly have created.
In short, Dorner is making about as much sense as the man who crashed his pick-up truck into a diner in Texas a few years back, and started shooting everyone inside, because he was out of work and the city was foreclosing on his property for back taxes, and I think he shouted something like “See what this city has done to me?”
Then there is the half-baked gang in a rural California city that started to pick a fight with a customer at a drive-in, was driven away by angry patrons, and came back an hour later with guns, to shoot down a bunch of people who hadn’t even been there at the time. That’s more like Chris Dorner.
Nope, not Django unchained. Just a frustrated man frothing at the mouth and striking out in all directions, who unfortunately had some solid police training and knew how to get away with it for a time.