He carried an ebony stick whose handle was a gold and silver sphere chased so as to represent an accurate and detailed globe of the world, and inside of whose shaft was concealed a spring, piston, and cylinder arrangement for compressing a charge of air to propel a small-caliber shot at any who might offend him.
* * * * * * * * * *
Just more pure evil super villain action here. Scarsdale Vibe sounds more Simon Stagg than Lex Luthor but I wouldn't quibble with somebody choosing to compare him to Lex Luthor. I'd secretly just think, "They just aren't nerd enough to be familiar with Simon Stagg."
Scarsdale Vibe owns a cane that's a miniature version of the world made out of precious metals and secretly hiding a weapon. It's how he sees the world. First off, he owns it. Second, it's only worth how rich it can make him. And lastly, it's his weapon to use as he sees fit. And a weapon not for protection at all! It's explicitly stated that he will use it on anybody who offends him. Imagine that! Imagine living in a time when "taking offense" was satisfactory excuse to commit murder? Oh, excuse me. That was my white privilege speaking out before I fully considered the ramifications of what I was saying. Obviously if you're a Black American, you already understand a world where white people believe they should be able to murder if a Black American slightly offends them in any way. Hell, they don't even have to offend them. The offense and reasons for their right to murder simply has to exist in the mind of the white person for the courts to see the murder as self defense. Every police officer in America understands that if a Black American disrespects them, they have carte blanche to murder that person and the legal system will give them the benefit of the doubt. And in some states, white Americans were so jealous of this freedom to commit murder bestowed upon our law enforcement that they supported Stand Your Ground laws which are ultimately just laws that allow a person to murder any other person (as long as the murderer is white and the victim is Black. They all understand this part of the law implicitly because you rarely see cases of a white person just murdering another white person and claiming Stand Your Ground).
God that phrase "shot at any who might offend him" is just so offensive that I wish I owned a cane like that right now!
No comments:
Post a Comment