Greg Reeves Celebrates Diversity (hates Arabs too)

You know why I read Crime Scene KC? No, I really don't care about crime stats from Overland Park or all of the "quirky" news items and bland commentary. And Greg Reeves really isn't that much of a writer and doesn't have many interesting thoughts to convey.

I read Crime Scene KC so I can find out about all the brown people in the city committing crime and where they live. Recently, Greg profiled a Kuwaiti UMKC student who has been indicted on charges of counterfeiting. As he normally does, Greg shows off the photo of a brown person in trouble with the law but then he really gets into his job (nullus) and posts the address of the man in question.

That's really responsible journalism from our daily paper. With their newish entry in the blogoshpere . . . The KC Star managed to break a rule that most 14 year-old bloggers know to be careful with: Avoid giving out personal information whether it's yours or somebody you know.

Even better, since the student is Arab this obviously awakens suspicions about terrorism (in my mind at least) so Greg just put the guy's address on the web and on the Star's front page so any nutjob out there could pay the guy's friends or loved ones a visit. Nice work, my man. Not only is this stupid but it's dangerous. Clearly, Greg is out there waging the war against terrorism and brown people on his own front. Incidentally, the war against terrorism and brown people is the same thing as far as Reeves, Bill O'Reilly and Lou Dobbs are concerned.

And while I've tried to withhold judgment I'm now ready to just come out and type it:

In my opinion, KC Star blogger Greg Reeves is a racist bastard. How do I know? We can smell our own. Not that I'm defending the suspect, I never liked the Arabs at UMKC not only because they had way more money than me (which we now know might be counterfeit) but also because their food stunk like ass and bacon, apparently they don't have eyebrow tweezers in the Middle-east and they all played the same Young MC CD from 1989 in their nice ass cars in the parking lot. Oh, and I normally think all Arabs are terrorists but I'm ahead of my time in that respect because that notion didn't just occur to me after 9/11; I've been thinking that since about '79 when I was 5 years old.

Rather than speak about issues of race honestly, he hides behind the Star's registration wall and claims that he only post pics of Black people that he's provided by the cops but damn if his writing isn't crisp and clever as hell when he describes all the Blacks, Mexicans and now Arabs that are in jail. So, in that sense maybe the guy isn't that bad of a writer after all . . . at least when he's covering something he enjoys. Whether it's the crusade of kilt wearing fat boy high school students and the defending the rights of white people or celebrating the demise of people with too much melanin in their skin and accents Greg Reeves is at his best portraying minorities in this town at their worst.